By The Restoration HQ desk · · filed under Claims & Coverage
Insurance attorneys flip a $1M hail claim into a ~$2M suit for "contractor interference"
Carrier-side attorneys turned a roughly $1M hail claim into a nearly $2M suit alleging contractor interference with the claim.
FORKnow exactly where the line is between advocating for your customer and "adjusting," and you make yourself lawsuit-proof.
AGAINSTCarriers inventing "contractor interference" suits is just intimidation dressed up as litigation, designed to make you flinch on supplements.
Consensus vs. contrarianThe contrarian, must-own take: the carriers are building a legal vocabulary to criminalize normal contractor advocacy, and the operators who learn that vocabulary first will be the ones still standing.
Sources Claims Journal, www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2026/05/… (published )