The RIA’s Advocacy and Government Affairs (AGA) Committee was conceived to unify the restoration industry around a set of common goals, to advocate for the best interests of restorers, and to achieve a fair and level playing field, both legally and financially, with insurers and their partners.
The disaster restoration industry is moving quickly; many new players and influences are driving changes in technology, labor force, program work, and more.
It is the protection of the policyholder as well as workforce recruiting and retention that presented the balance the committee sought to encompass in one set of rules.
Have you ever been in a situation where you had too many customers calling for your services at the same time? Or, have you ever had too few customers asking for your services, so you wanted to select only those clients that would prove most lucrative?
Working with insurance adjusters in the restoration industry can be like walking a tightrope. You have to balance the needs of your clients with those of the adjusters. So how do you manage these needs?
Since its inception, the RIA Advocacy and Government Affairs (AGA) Committee has been moving forward like a freight train. Month after month this movement gains momentum in a way that is unprecedented in the property repair industry.
There is no doubt that the hardest line of business to write going into 2020 is Commercial Auto. For years, insurance carriers underpriced auto premiums and it caught up to them, resulting in auto being unprofitable for many carriers.