Restorers can use the HOVER app on their mobile device to take a set of photos of a loss site and have them transformed into an interactive 3D model. The new integration allows HOVER 3D models to automatically import into Xactimate and XactAnalysis.
Mike Fulton, president of Verisk Property Estimating Solutions, talks trends and innovations in claims estimating, ongoing areas of interest among contractors like Xactimate pricing, the impact of external forces like inflation on property claims, educational highlights for Verisk Elevate 2022, and an Xactware rebrand.
"Our insurance businesses and solutions, such as ISO, AIR Worldwide, Sequel, Xactware, FAST and ISO Claims Partners, will transition away from their independent company names and become Verisk. While our company brand names will transition to Verisk, you will continue to see some of these names featured in the names of our individual solutions," said Mark Anquillare.
Annissa Coy answers a question she’s never been asked before: “Would you ever use clean bric-a-brac heavy clean, high density line item…?” In her response Coy shares her approach to efficient billing.
Started in 2016 by Xactimate Certified Trainer Ben Justesen, ERS has trained thousands of contractors to utilize their own financials in pricing and looking at projects pragmatically to make their estimates. Epic Estimates is a remote estimating service that creates Xactimate estimates for contractors, consultants and adjusters.
Many restoration contractors, business owners, and managers struggle to train their teams to clearly and consistently document the story of the loss. Every insurance claims estimate, especially those composed in Xactimate, need two key things.
This article takes a four-foot masonry opening and breaks down the cost to properly flash the masonry opening versus random techniques performed by some estimators.
