Adjusters International Pacific Northwest Testimonials

As you know, Westak had tried to internally deal with a business interruption claim in 1987 which yielded absolutely nothing. When the fire occurred at our manufacturing facility in 1992, our management team debated handling the claim internally with the assistance of our insurance broker, Willis Corroon. After talking with The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International, I felt comfortable that our claim would be handled professionally and in an expeditious manner. Our entire management team began to realize that we could truly concentrate on restoring the facility and running the company while The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International handled the insurance claim. You requested a reasonable amount of documentation, made helpful suggestions as to structuring the data that needed to be compiled, and did the majority of the actual calculations yourself…Our insurance company made every effort to both minimize the amount of the loss and delay payment as long as possible…Again, I wish to thank you for performing above our expectations...

Our firm has been building luxury custom homes in the Central Oregon, SW Washington and Portland Metro area for eighteen years. Towards the end of construction a devastating fire destroyed the Thompsons Home. The day of the fire I reached out to the members of a building networking group I belong to and was referred to The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International. Although I am competent in business and construction matters, retaining The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International at the onset was the right thing to do. There were complicated issues at play such as coinsurance, reporting of values, scope of damages, damages to uninstalled items, soft costs, and matching of finishes. With your background in insurance and the support from your team of experts, The Greenspan Co./Adjusters International negotiated an unbelievable settlement. You doubled the original offer.

In spite of having specialized in real estate and insurance industries as a financial practitioner, having your firm as Loss Settlement adjusters was a practical necessity in this case. I also found that the typical contractor is not knowledgeable in repair of this kind of damage and your firm’s recommendations were invaluable…At the end of the day, your firm’s services cost me nothing, and saved a lot of time during a busy tax season!

I am sure that your competence in handling this matter did result in an adjustment far in excess of that which we might have obtained had we handled it ourselves.

You were on the scene immediately both assuaging our concerns and dealing with our emotions and fears… Although I started the process myself, I clearly could not get it done in an expedient manner or in the manner which you handled our loss. You handled our loss professionally, expediently and with great care, constantly keeping us in the loop of important information… You negotiated a settlement that was exceptional and allowed us to rebuild the project in the manner that it should have been.

I told him that I was an attorney and I initially had the idea that I could just handle all of this by myself. After all, I had been the general contractor on building my own house – surely I could handle a fire loss…Then I told him that we had a meeting in my attorney’s office in Seattle with Gordon and KC and they explained what they could do to help me. My attorney and I looked at each other and both said “no way could we do all of this ourselves.” For one thing, my attorney didn’t have the time to work on all the fire loss issues and if I tackled it alone, I told “Richard”, it would have taken me 5 years to do all that Adjusters International did for me…I explained that just the PROCESS and getting your loss claims in a format that the insurance company will accept is daunting. Then, I told him that AI fights for you – when the insurance company wants to use “national tables” and depreciate everything – even a lot of your new stuff…it’s maddening, and without AI and namely, Drew Lucurell, to go to bat for me, I would have been sunk. I told him that he would more than recover any fee paid to AI just by having them work for him vis-à-vis the insurance company, who basically wants to settle early, settle cheap and SCREW YOU!

We would like to take this opportunity to tell you that our experience with all of the people that we met with from your company has been of great satisfaction.

...When the mill was destroyed by fire, a consultant to the milling industry and a person we had trust in, recommended we meet with you. He spoke of past positive experiences and suggested that we not go it alone. His advice turned out to be right…You carefully and successfully argued that our buildings, because of the ways in which they were connected, should be considered as “one”, thereby reducing any penalties we would incur. You controlled the scope on the equipment and, as such, clearly were able to negotiate the best outcome on our behalf. You successfully argued for increased costs of construction, and were able to collect them in our behalf, due to codes, in spite of our insurer’s attempts to deny us any payments under this policy extension. And lastly, you made sure that we collected for every single coverage that our policy afforded under our business interruption and extra expense coverage’s….In conclusion, it’s very clear that with you on our team, we collected millions more in payments than we would have without you. You allowed us the valuable time and resources for us to focus on redesign and reconstruction, allowing us to reopen our doors and again become the largest employer in Weaverville. Due to your efforts, a community was saved. You followed through on everything you promised.