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Service recovery · Appropriate compensation

A contractor from your carrier's preferred network botched the repairs on a policyholder's kitchen after a covered water loss. The policyholder wants it made right, plus compensation for months of disruption. How do you decide what to offer?

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The anchor is full correction of the failure itself, without argument: we recommended the contractor, so we own the outcome — re-scope and redo the work with a different network co…

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