What is the appraisal process?

If your vehicle has been deemed a total loss by your insurance company, they will contact you with a settlement offer. You can accept it, you can explain why you think your vehicle is worth more and they will ask for proof from you. Generally this means finding comparable vehicle for sale in the local market.

If you aren’t satisfied with the amount offered you can invoke the appraisal clause in your policy. You select an appraiser as does the insurance company. This is where we go to work for you. With the photos of the vehicle used to make the claim, some supporting information from you and our state of the art software that allows us to see vehicle sales and prices from everything from auctions to big name dealers in the area, we can assess and prove how much it will cost you to purchase an equivalent vehicle.

As long as the value is higher than the insurance’s offer by any amount, the last step is the insurance company reimbursing you for our services.