Insurance Work

Maf180

Does anybody know how you would go about trying to get on an insurance companies panel for building repair work following claims?

Is it a closed shop or do they actively recruit new companies?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Poor Uncle Tom

As long as you have all your paperwork, C2 or tax clearence cert, Employers and professional liability insurance, etc., and once you can show copies of those when needed, and the big one, once you win a tender, you can do the job.

All of the above is from my experience of supervising such works.

gsxr1

A good friend of mine does insurance work non stop. He makes a great living at it. I have tried it also with him.
The client has a lot to do with the tender. If you have their ear you are nearly there. They can insist they want you for the job. There are many whys to get their ear. Money and no excess works the best.;) For smaller 3k or less jobs the insurance people don't dig to deep into prices. But you do need to be fully legit . And rightly so. He has never been asked to produce insurance by insurance companies (the irony) . But ye would be foolish to proceed without it in fairness.

Poor Uncle Tom

gsxr1 wrote: »

He has never been asked to produce insurance by insurance companies (the irony) . But ye would be foolish to proceed without it in fairness.

For insurance work, as with works for any state body, the onus is on the supervising Architect/Engineer/AT to satisfy themselves the necessary paperwork is in place for the contractors tendering for the works, if it is found that the appropriate paperwork is not in place, then it is back on the supervisor this will come, usually by not accepting them to supervise works in future.

For smaller insurance jobs, where somebody to supervising the works isn't needed, the assesor or broker will likely not care as they want the costs down, personally I wouldn't get involved in the small jobs, it's very easy to get burned on them.

martinn123

Maf180 wrote: »

Does anybody know how you would go about trying to get on an insurance companies panel for building repair work following claims?

Is it a closed shop or do they actively recruit new companies?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Poor Uncle Tom wrote:

and the big one, once you win a tender, you can do the job.

All of the above is from my experience of supervising such works.

perhaps the question should be, how do you get on the list of Contractors asked to tender, and who puts out the tenders. Insc. Co or supervising Architect ?

Poor Uncle Tom

martinn123 wrote: »

perhaps the question should be, how do you get on the list of Contractors asked to tender, and who puts out the tenders. Insc. Co or supervising Architect ?

Generally, for works valued over €50,000 they are advertised in the local press, smaller jobs are usually priced from the Architect's own list of local contractors.