Don’t Let A Storm Derail Your Life
When you’re a business owner, among the many stresses you have to deal with are the ones brought fourth by mother nature herself. And if you’re a business owner in South Florida, you can find yourself growing accustomed to the damage and learning exactly how to handle it. Tropical storms, thunderstorms, intense rain showers or the dreaded annual hurricane or two, or three, become your ultimate foes.
From an insurance perspective, mother nature poses harrowing challenges. Number one action items to address include damaged inventory & stock, machinery & equipment breakdown power outages, fallen trees, blown roofing systems, exposed roof structure components and full structural damage to our property.
What’s the best way to handle this? Well it’s certainly not alone. As a business owner, you need to keep your head in the game and worry about your business. Let the professional commercial claim public adjusters swoop in and deal with the complex and technical issues. And it’s crucial that you jump on this early enough. Here are some tips on how to handle mother nature’s damage:
– Before you even enter your property, ensure that it’s safe to do so. You don’t want a collapsing roof to land on you and your people.
– Become a documentarian with photos and videos of all the structural damage. This is your evidence.
– Find your property insurance policy, whether that be a hard copy or PDF. Getting it on the cloud is the way to go because a storm could easily destroy your hard copy.
When a storm rolls by, it doesn’t have to be as stressful as it may appear, not unless you are prepared, equipped and armed with the right public adjuster.