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“Engineering Firms Sinkholes”

May
26
2010

Citizens Insurance Sinkhole Investigations

However, having recently reviewed several Citizens’ reports, I can report that many of them do not include many of these. For example, all engineering investigations should include a floor elevation survey, and this is specifically included in the Citizens engineering scope. But, many of the engineering reports produced by Citizens skip this part, and I think this is an error (and from the scope they prepared, it appears they would agree).

Mar
25
2010

Selecting an Engineering Firm to Investigate Sinkhole Damage

The issue often becomes not necessarily what their interpretation of the data is, but instead whether they have conducted sufficient testing before rendering an opinion. If they produce the test results, you can always have the data itself evaluated. Frankly, most insurance companies will get popped if they later discover that the engineering firm cut corners on the manner in which the loss was investigated.