New tool helps provide more accurate estimates for clients.

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.

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.

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. 

The year was 1990 and for some points of reference:

1. People still sent letters.

2. If you were 30 years old, you could expect to be on the planet another 45 years (Life expectancy was 75.4 years).

In the service industry, people attempt to cheat on a regular basis. Homeowners do it by trying to short-pay a bill, tell white lies to tilt events to their favor, or make veiled attempts to obtain free services.