“Despite a powerful surge in bank robbery, mortgage fraud and white-collar crimes, the Bush administration’s 2009 budget leaves an already handicapped FBI criminal program without the agents it needs to respond — a shortcoming acknowledged by top FBI officials.”
FBI Says Fighting Financial Crimes a Priority; Insurance Cases Top 200
National News • May 23, 2008
The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued 529 financial crime cases in its most recent fiscal year, including 209 insurance fraud cases. During it fiscal year 2007, the 209 insurance fraud …
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It has been noted after the April 17, 2008 hailstorm that much damage is being missed and understated by insurance adjusters, which is throwing off loss claim dollar values in Mineral Wells, Texas.
According to some adjusters;
1. Smashed AC units cooling foils are to be “combed” despite the fact that the combing process damages the protective factory coating on the foils, and never restores the foils to a predamaged / factory engineered condition.
Honest AC contractors know about these issues.
2. Damaged landscaping is being missed.
3. Roofing, siding, sheet-rock, painting, etc. component systems / reconstruction products and restoration work procedures are [suddenly] missing, or understated.
4. Premium collected and prepaid Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business overhead and profit (Contractors O&P) values are construction component line item costs that are missing at the end of adjusters estimates.
The Texas Department of Insurance Bulletin B0045-98 repeatedly clarifies and warns insurers that they collect money in premiums for [inherently] prospective Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business O&P costs in ANY region of the USA, and internationally.
Actuarially, the general replacement costs of structures would be synthetically undervalued if Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business O&P costs were left out of the statistical replacement cost risk equation.
For example, the value of a roofing system installed by a (primary-general) building contractor, using their roofing sub-contractor, contains both the primary and sub-trade contractors business costs, including their individual business O&P, woven into it.
For adjusters to claim after a wind-hail-etc. event that a existing structures’ roofing system, or any other construction component put in place by a builder, does not suddenly contain primary-general contractor construction business O&P costs AND their roofing, painting, AC, etc. sub-contractors overhead and profit business costs, is ignoring the economics of how structures generally come into existence, and the similar O&P economics predetermined to REPLACE them.
Not forwarding ACTUAL full loss values to claimants allows insurers to keep prospective general and sub-trade contractors O&P policyholders prepaid for in premium payments.
Too, although 10% profit is a good pretax mark to aim for, 10% overhead can be a questionably understated accounting mark.
5. Improperly recommending partial “line-of-sight” painting, flooring, etc. replacement procedures that can leave a property looking distressed / ill-valued, and give a contractor a bad name.
6. Claiming the protective granular component being blasted off of fiberglass shingles by hard pea-small marble sized hail and debris is not damage to shingles.
7. Claiming the high winds that shook a home or business did not contribute to fresh cracks in / on the structure.
8. Broken brick siding and outdoor walkway tile is being missed.
Please look over your property very, very carefully.
Overlooked damage and missing reconstruction / repair procedures can be worth thousands of dollars to account for towards repairing a storm damaged property.
To state that PEOs operate chiefly to pool businesses together to purchase workers compensation insurance is an antequated and rediculous conclusion. The author of the article has obviously not done their homework. As the owner of a PEO for over a quarter of a century, and as a former president of NAPEO, I can assure you that most PEOs operate to offer legitimate, across-the-board human resource services to their clients. Many PEOs today have separate workers comp policies for each client and do not discount premiums in any way, yet offer safety services. The author is simply wrong and owes the industry an apology.
Byron G. McCurdy
Aspen Resource Partners
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Monday 5/19/08, Seattle Post Intellegencer:
“Despite a powerful surge in bank robbery, mortgage fraud and white-collar crimes, the Bush administration’s 2009 budget leaves an already handicapped FBI criminal program without the agents it needs to respond — a shortcoming acknowledged by top FBI officials.”
FBI Says Fighting Financial Crimes a Priority; Insurance Cases Top 200
National News • May 23, 2008
The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued 529 financial crime cases in its most recent fiscal year, including 209 insurance fraud cases. During it fiscal year 2007, the 209 insurance fraud …
____________________
It has been noted after the April 17, 2008 hailstorm that much damage is being missed and understated by insurance adjusters, which is throwing off loss claim dollar values in Mineral Wells, Texas.
According to some adjusters;
1. Smashed AC units cooling foils are to be “combed” despite the fact that the combing process damages the protective factory coating on the foils, and never restores the foils to a predamaged / factory engineered condition.
Honest AC contractors know about these issues.
2. Damaged landscaping is being missed.
3. Roofing, siding, sheet-rock, painting, etc. component systems / reconstruction products and restoration work procedures are [suddenly] missing, or understated.
4. Premium collected and prepaid Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business overhead and profit (Contractors O&P) values are construction component line item costs that are missing at the end of adjusters estimates.
The Texas Department of Insurance Bulletin B0045-98 repeatedly clarifies and warns insurers that they collect money in premiums for [inherently] prospective Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business O&P costs in ANY region of the USA, and internationally.
Actuarially, the general replacement costs of structures would be synthetically undervalued if Primary-General AND sub-trade contractors business O&P costs were left out of the statistical replacement cost risk equation.
For example, the value of a roofing system installed by a (primary-general) building contractor, using their roofing sub-contractor, contains both the primary and sub-trade contractors business costs, including their individual business O&P, woven into it.
For adjusters to claim after a wind-hail-etc. event that a existing structures’ roofing system, or any other construction component put in place by a builder, does not suddenly contain primary-general contractor construction business O&P costs AND their roofing, painting, AC, etc. sub-contractors overhead and profit business costs, is ignoring the economics of how structures generally come into existence, and the similar O&P economics predetermined to REPLACE them.
Not forwarding ACTUAL full loss values to claimants allows insurers to keep prospective general and sub-trade contractors O&P policyholders prepaid for in premium payments.
Too, although 10% profit is a good pretax mark to aim for, 10% overhead can be a questionably understated accounting mark.
5. Improperly recommending partial “line-of-sight” painting, flooring, etc. replacement procedures that can leave a property looking distressed / ill-valued, and give a contractor a bad name.
6. Claiming the protective granular component being blasted off of fiberglass shingles by hard pea-small marble sized hail and debris is not damage to shingles.
7. Claiming the high winds that shook a home or business did not contribute to fresh cracks in / on the structure.
8. Broken brick siding and outdoor walkway tile is being missed.
Please look over your property very, very carefully.
Overlooked damage and missing reconstruction / repair procedures can be worth thousands of dollars to account for towards repairing a storm damaged property.
rogerpoegc@gmail.com
To state that PEOs operate chiefly to pool businesses together to purchase workers compensation insurance is an antequated and rediculous conclusion. The author of the article has obviously not done their homework. As the owner of a PEO for over a quarter of a century, and as a former president of NAPEO, I can assure you that most PEOs operate to offer legitimate, across-the-board human resource services to their clients. Many PEOs today have separate workers comp policies for each client and do not discount premiums in any way, yet offer safety services. The author is simply wrong and owes the industry an apology.
Byron G. McCurdy
Aspen Resource Partners
Colorado Springs, Colorado