Friday, October 26, 2007

Calling Insurance

If you've had to process a claim with your homeowners insurance you know it can be a long process. After a couple days they finally assign a claim number and adjuster. Later, rather than sooner an adjuster will visit your home and evaluate the damage. Truthfully I think it's more to confirm what happened. After that you get to call three different companies to provide estimates on all repairs and replacements. In our case it was for the roof, framing in the attic (yes, the strike actually destroyed the framing), appliances, digital camera to Ritz, home security system, and so on. A couple weeks before the strike we had replaced the central air system (we went with Trane, at the time they had very good rebates and also put in a new system to kill germs in the air). All of those who have lived in Florida know this is an essential machine to have. Well, our new system didn't work the next day....Fortunately the company that installed the new system was very responsive and fixed very quickly.

1 comment:

Lightning Strikes said...

There really hasn't been any update on the claim process. Except that now we have to wait for another week so they can send out an engineer to evaluate the truses in the attic. Ugh!!!