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Steps to Prevent Further Damage After a Flood

When you suffer water damage in your home, you are almost never prepared.  These emergencies create issues in our homes that require immediate attention and water removal.  This may also require the assistance of professional services to fully remove the water and keep your home from incurring additional damages.  When you recognize damages done to your home, you will want to contact your homeowner's insurance company to help file a claim.  They will send out a public ...

Four Reasons to File an Insurance Claim

Have you recently been involved in accident and aren't sure who caused it?  Have you been injured at work?  Did you home or property suffer extensive damages due to extreme weather?  You should consider filing an insurance claim to cover the costs of damages and repairs needed in the near future.  As a public insurance claims adjuster in South Florida, we work to maximize our clients' insurance claims to get them the speedy payment they deserve.  There are fou...

Filing Your Property Insurance Claim

Imagine that you have just suffered the emotional loss of your home. When you call the insurance company, they send you a long form containing many complicated words that you must fill out. You realize that you do not even fully understand the damage that has occurred. You are in no condition to know what you are going to need to rebuild. Therefore, you need to hire a public claims adjuster in South Florida. Starting the Claims Filing Process The claims filing process ca...

Homeowners Association Board Member Guide to Disaster Recovery

It can be very time consuming to serve on the board of your homeowners association. The demands become even more when a natural disaster, such as a flood, hurricane, or tornado, strikes your association. To be most effective when disaster strikes, your board needs to develop a guide before an event takes place and work with a public claims adjuster in South Florida after the fact. Residents expect you to be an expert in dealing with the disaster. It is the role of the adjuster to make you loo...

How to Handle a Pipe Burst in Your Home

When disaster strikes, the last thing you want to think about is the repairs, damage, and clean up required to make life normal again.  However, disasters happen.  A burst pipe is a perfect example of a disaster that almost no one wants to tackle.  As a public claims adjuster in South Florida, we help many of our homeowners file the proper insurance claim paperwork after they have suffered damages related to water or flooding in their home.  Even though you have may have a...

Learn the Insurance Company’s Definition of a Flood

While you may think of a flood as anytime that water rises, that is not the definition that insurance companies use. Therefore, before you feel that you are not covered because your policy excludes floods, it may pay to learn what benefits your plan includes and what insurance companies exclude because many insurance companies may cover some types of water damage that the ordinary person would consider a flood. Insurance Companies Definition of a Flood Most insurance com...