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Insurance Services

BEC provides technical support to the Insurance community for a multitude of claims ranging from small residential issues to large high-rise, commercial, or institutional construction defect related issues.  We help insurance adjusters, third-party administrators, and counsel understand the true causes that have created the damages being claimed.  Professional investigations are performed, and concise cause and origin opinion reports are issued, in a timely manner to help quickly resolve the insurance claims. 

Our insurance services include:

  • Professional investigations to identify defects in building design, construction, maintenance, management, or owner operation.

  • Development of professional opinion reports clearly identifying the cause and origin of the defect(s) and resulting damages based on facts in evidence.

  • Support of opinions using BEC’s extensive collection and knowledge of codes, industry standards, technical publications and literature.

  • Use of advanced building science skills and knowledge to evaluate heat, air, and moisture (and moisture vapor) transport in and out of the building enclosure to assess causation of mold, condensation, and deterioration of building components.

  • BEC has extensive knowledge and experience with roofing, masonry, exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS), exterior stucco systems, window and curtain wall systems, attic and building ventilation systems making us capable of helping to resolve the myriad of issues generating the building claim.

We recognize that insurers today face very challenging economic pressures while claims are more and more challenging from a technical standpoint.  There is also the constant desire to avoid costly litigation.  We see this situation creating an increasing need for technical experts that have a greater skill set than adjusters, but are substantially less expensive than our litigation experts.  We address this situation by offering technical experts with excellent credentials for this type of work and who are priced to meet the need of insurers.  These experts have continual and easy access to other experts having deeper technical credentials and experience, thus offering insurers a highly cost effective solution without compromising the depth of knowledge and experience that is needed.

Building and Environmental insurance investigations are led by Ed Malnar - FMP, having many years of experience with conducting both insurance claim investigations and supporting litigation investigations. 
Click for Ed's CV.

   
 
Building & Environmental Consultants division of ITC Experts            |           1019 Airpark Drive, Sugar Grove, Illinois 60554            |            (630) 556-9700