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That house looks like it experienced some severe damage. So, the insurance company hired their own tree service? If thats the case, I wonder why that doesn't happen more often? I mean, a tree service working directly for the insurance company and not the homeowner. Would make sense in a storm situation. No need for multiple quotes. Each insurance company would have there own tree service. Client calls about storm damage and the insurance company just calls there tree service and tells them to go take care of it and send them the bill. They then could bill the homeowner for the deductible if needed.
 
ROYCE said:
That house looks like it experienced some severe damage. So, the insurance company hired their own tree service? If thats the case, I wonder why that doesn't happen more often? I mean, a tree service working directly for the insurance company and not the homeowner. Would make sense in a storm situation. No need for multiple quotes. Each insurance company would have there own tree service. Client calls about storm damage and the insurance company just calls there tree service and tells them to go take care of it and send them the bill. They then could bill the homeowner for the deductible if needed.
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That's exactly what happens around here after a storm. We had a big one roll through in July, many trees down on houses, garages, etc. Every day we'd just get a list of houses from the cleanup contractor (ServiceMaster) telling us to go get the tree on the ground and move on. We billed ServiceMaster, who in turn billed the insurance. Many times we never even had the homeowners name let alone met them. We were basically being sub-contracted to remove the hazard so repairs could begin.
 
ROYCE said:
That house looks like it experienced some severe damage. So, the insurance company hired their own tree service? If thats the case, I wonder why that doesn't happen more often? I mean, a tree service working directly for the insurance company and not the homeowner. Would make sense in a storm situation. No need for multiple quotes. Each insurance company would have there own tree service. Client calls about storm damage and the insurance company just calls there tree service and tells them to go take care of it and send them the bill. They then could bill the homeowner for the deductible if needed.
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I believe that would be a conflict of interests as well as illegal. Or at least it seems it should be. I could see a lot of money being made in a not-so-honest manner.
 
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