Gift Your Dad Some Home Insurance Claim Help

What to buy a dad for Father’s Day has long been a quandary. Socks, hankies and funny T-shirts are typically always on the list of potential gifts. Perhaps you’ve tried special brew beers or ‘experience’ vouchers too? All are fine but, sometimes, as they get older, what dads really need is help. In the aftermath of property damage, that can definitely be the case.

Many more mature dads have enjoyed a different role to that of younger dads – breadwinner, financial decision-maker, DIY have-a-go hero, fixer and children’s chauffeur being just part of that. Having been the person on whom the rest of the family depended, it can be hard for dads to reach a stage at which they find they cannot go it alone. This can definitely be the case when it comes to home insurance claims.

We see many older dads, either living with their elderly wives or widowed and living alone, who are still fiercely independent but also in need of specialist help. They need to offload stress, take care of their health and get their insurance claim sorted out as fast as possible, so they can have someone ‘fix’ the home they themselves can no longer ‘mend’.

Some dads struggle to handle their own insurance claim, because they have become hard of hearing or find it difficult to concentrate on the details. Often, they have not initially realised this, so we are only called in after they have struggled on alone for some time. That’s typically when they have come up against a major obstacle – the insurer’s loss adjuster.

No dad should feel embarrassed about this. A loss adjuster is a highly experienced claims professional, involved in the claim as the insurer’s representative, controlling the cost of the repairs and overall claim. Dads have many talents, but understanding insurance jargon and small print inside out, is not usually one of them, unless they have worked in insurance. Very few of us, no matter what our age, should actually even attempt to fight our own case in a home insurance claim.

Instead, dads should delegate, leaving their home insurance claim to a loss assessor, like Property Claim Assist, who will be their voice in a claim and level the playing field, drawing on the same level of expertise as the loss adjuster. A loss assessor will strive to gain any dad his full entitlement from the insurance cover he bought and get the claim processed as fast as possible.

If dads work with Property Claim Assist, they can also steer clear of the hassle of getting tradespeople to visit and provide repair quotes and they can similarly avoid cowboy builders. We can use our trusted contractors to handle all repairs and, if we do, charge dad nothing for our service.

For dads in the midst of a property disaster this Father’s Day, whether that is a water leak, flooding from internal or external sources, fire, weather or vehicle damage or even something such as an oil tank spillage, being freed of all of the stress of handling an insurance claim can be the best gift.

You can engineer that gift very easily, by either getting in touch with us on your dad’s behalf or passing our details on to him. We will keep him in touch with what’s going, as much or as little as he wants, and be a support for him until his property is back to its pre-loss condition, with the claim finally settled.

And, of course, if you live some way away from your dad, we can be a great source of support for you too, providing the peace of mind that all is in very good, ethical and qualified hands.

As dads ourselves, we understand the emotions our elderly male clients go through when property damage occurs and an insurance claim is necessary. Empathy is just one reason why our testimonials are so glowing. The fact that this, and everything else we do for dad, can be enjoyed for free, is another.

So gift your dad some help on Father’s Day or whenever property damage occurs. We are only a call away, on 0333 577 2720.