How Assistimate Began
Assistimate was founded in 2013 by a current public adjuster and former regional claims manager with more than two decades of commercial and residential first party claims experience with the following goal: to help contractors profit more and policy holders better restore.
In adjusting first party claims as a staff and independent adjuster, our founder had met with countless general contractors, roofers, water mitigation contractors, handymen, etc during loss inspections. He noticed many weren’t familiar with the claims process or using insurance estimating software. They were leaving their profit margins to the mercy of inexperienced adjusters, or they were submitting bids lacking in detail that ultimately led to claims being paid instead from adjuster estimates instead. Not using the tools available to them had a negative impact only on the contractor’s bottom line, and also on the property owner’s home or business from being restored to pre-loss condition. Seeing an opportunity to help, the idea of Assistimate was born.
Today, Assistimate has consulted on thousands of projects for hundreds of clients. Most of our clients come via word-of-mouth, which we believe is a testament to our skillset and product. Our clientele has grown to include not only contractors seeking to prevent money left on the table, but busy adjusters (mostly public adjusters) and legal professionals looking to settle claims more equitably for policy holders.
We Know the Estimating Platforms Inside-Out
Our founder has used Xactimate®, Cotality™/Symbility™ and Simsol® to help settle countless insurance claims for nearly two decades. The claims he’s worked have varied from total loss structure fires to damages from Category 5 hurricanes, and all were estimated with one of these platforms. In fact, he even used Xactimate to settle a water damage claim on a professional football stadium. Capable of estimating damages in excess of millions of dollars, these software platforms have proven themselves in the insurance and restoration industries as capable of handling the most complex of projects. They have earned the trust of countless adjusters, insurance companies, and contractors throughout the United States and Canada. Assistimate offers estimates from Xactimate and Cotality/Symbility platforms on our consulting projects to help contractors profit more and policy holders better restore.
More About Our Founder
With a background in home building and commercial construction, our founder started in the insurance world as a staff adjuster (an adjuster who works for an insurance company). He moved on to become an independent adjuster (an adjuster who works for several insurance companies), and then became a regional claims manager overseeing teams of adjusters. He is a top-tier, best-of-the-best, expert claim adjuster and is well-versed in nearly every area of claims and estimatics with Xactimate and Cotality/Symbility. He keeps up with cutting-edge technology trends in the ever-evolving property damage restoration industry and maintains multi-line adjuster licenses in several states. He oversees the daily operation of Assistimate in addition to his claim handling practice.
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If you have questions about the services offered by Assistimate, or for general questions about insurance projects, including Xactimate or Cotality/Symbility estimates, please visit our FAQs page. Or feel free to Contact Us. We are eager to help, and we look forward to assisting you with all of your property loss consulting needs. We think you’ll find our services invaluable and worth coming back for time and again. Thank you for choosing Assistimate.