Free 1-Hour Webinar on Thursday, January 31st, 2024 at 10:00am Pacific Time

Introduction

Investigating and Estimating Fire Claims is intended to help claims professionals understand the process from beginning (Notice of Loss) to end, especially when they end up in a dispute or litigation.

Investigating fires is a well developed profession with its own collection of professional guidelines governing best practices, and we will explain them. Investigating fires requires a qualified fire investigator to apply the applicable investigative standards to develop a hypothesis regarding it's origin and cause. It's not always cut and dry and we will discuss some of these scenarios.

Cost estimating is a profession with specialized skills, training, education, and certifications; but it’s not rocket science. It's always about figuring out what it will take to do construction work; in this case, the construction is repairing fire damage. There is some math in all estimating, so it’s scary to a lot of people. We will explain all of this as simply and clearly as possible.