Steve Patrick - Working with Insurance
It is natural, your insurance providers want to pay less. Come on, they are a for-profit business not funded by the United Nations, so it is only normal for them to strive to cut payments at all opportunities. Sadly, such costs often mean the carrier underpaying you. This could mean a deficit of a couple of hundred bucks, thousands, and even millions, depending on the enormity of your insurance claim. Here, the adjuster terribly shrinks your claims, unreasonably flagging many line items as illegitimate. Ultimately, you are forced to settle for poor-quality contractors whose low estimates your insurance carrier loves. But do you need to keep paying this price (either via paying the deficit out of pocket or settling for materials of inferior quality)? A BIG NO.In this podcast, we bring on Steve Patrick, strategic advisor, consultant, contractor/PA coach, to come thoroughly educate us on working with insurance. Steve has been serving the construction and insurance industries performing appraisal dispute resolution, including umpiring for 18 years. What more, he boasts well over 2,000 appraisals.Some of the critical nuggets you will learn in this podcast include:o How to accurately detect if your insurance carrier is underpaying youo How to leverage litigation in insurance claim resolutionso How to leverage supplemental claims in getting complete payment from your carriero How to get the best of a public adjuster in getting accurate estimateso How to have informed and productive discussions with adjusterso How to identify the few 10% of contractors who habitually deliver exceptional quality Miss this podcast at the peril of losing your precious dollars. Thank you for listening! Don't miss out on future episodes! Subscribe to The D2D Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. You may also watch this podcast on YouTube!You may also follow Sam Taggart on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for more nuggets on D2D and Sales Tips.