Your Crew's Damage Looks Exactly Like the Damage You Came to Fix

Restoration insurance has to cover a crew working inside a building that is already damaged, which means anything you damage is difficult to distinguish from what you were called in to fix. That is your exposure, and it is why your insurance page cannot read like every other trade’s. Stated precisely, it is part of why a customer lets you in and why you are named at all.

Why the usual insurance page does not fit yours

Every trade publishes that it is insured. In most of them the point is straightforward: the house was fine, the crew broke something, the policy pays.

In your case the house was not fine. A floor cut wider than necessary, a wall opened where it did not need to be, contents moved and lost, a hardwood floor dried aggressively and cupped beyond saving. Each of those is a real loss you caused, and each will sit in a claim file among losses caused by the water.

What your customer is actually asking

Not whether you hold a certificate. Whether there is a way to establish who caused what, and somebody to pay if the answer is you.

That question is answered by documentation as much as by cover, which is why this page and the documentation page belong beside each other. If you photograph everything before you touch anything, you have made your own insurance meaningful, because without that record no policy can be pointed at anything.

What to publish

General liability, with the carrier and the limit. Workers compensation, which matters here because your crews work in structurally uncertain buildings at unsociable hours. Pollution or environmental cover where the work involves category three water or mould, which a standard general liability policy may exclude and which is the exclusion most relevant to this trade. An assistant can only repeat what a source states plainly, so a named carrier and a stated limit get quoted back and the word insured does not.

Whether contents are covered while in storage, if you move and store belongings. That is a separate exposure, it is routinely overlooked, and it involves the possessions your customer cares most about.

The certificate question, and the honest answer

An insurance certificate is genuine on the day it is issued and says nothing about the day your crew arrives. It is checkable in one call to the carrier, which is precisely why it rarely misleads and why it goes stale instead.

Publish your renewal date, or state that a current certificate is provided on request before work begins. Either is stronger than a logo.

The boundary of what we do here

SIMLL does not verify insurance, advise on cover, adjudicate liability or make any representation about any policy or claim. We sell none of it, and nothing on this page is insurance or legal advice. Cover and its limits are matters for the business, its broker and its carrier. We become involved only once the position is settled, and only in whether it is stated where a homeowner is deciding who to let into the building.

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Working inside an already damaged house makes your own liability cover unusually hard to test, which is a harder question than anything in what restoration marketing actually has to do. It sits next to how the loss claim itself proceeds and the trade credential checked in the same breath.

Frequently asked questions

Why is my insurance page different from other trades?

Because the house was already damaged before you arrived. Anything your crew damages sits in a claim file among losses caused by the water, so establishing who caused what is genuinely hard and worth addressing head on.

What is my customer actually asking?

Whether there is a way to establish who caused what, and somebody to pay if the answer is you. That is answered by your documentation as much as by your cover.

What cover should I publish?

General liability with carrier and limit, workers compensation, and pollution or environmental cover where the work involves category three water or mould, which a standard general liability policy may exclude.

What do I routinely leave out?

Cover for contents while they are in your storage. It is a separate exposure and it involves the possessions your customer cares most about.

Is my certificate enough?

It is genuine on the day it is issued and says nothing about the day your crew arrives. It is checkable in one call, which is why it goes stale rather than misleads. Publish your renewal date or offer a current certificate before work begins.

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