Xact Claim Services

Estimating with Xactimate®

Xactimate is the No. 1 software solution available on the market for property claims estimating and equips you with all of the tools you need to create professional-looking estimates, as well as to view and manage all your estimating and communication-related activities. With Xactimate, estimating a project is as simple as: 1) gathering loss information; [...]

Claims Management Software with XactAnalysis®

XactAnalysis is the first, largest, and only full-cycle claims analytical and reporting tool available in the property insurance industry. As claims flow through its network, XactAnalysis constantly monitors the data to help claims professionals catch errors, report on progress, and benchmark performance.

Contents Estimating with XactContents®

XactContents allows you to: systematically build personal property inventories quickly research and accurately estimate personal property items, as well as get like-kind-and-quality suggestions for discontinued or obsolete items automatically calculate Replacement Cost Value (RCV) and Actual Cash Value (ACV) instantly divide and distribute claims record, track, and manage all types of payments create professional-looking reports

Xactware® Industry Trend Reports

The Industry Trend Reports will show you at a glance how prices have changed for key industry indicators such as lumber, drywall, and floor coverings over the past 5 years. You can track labor prices for individual trades, see how any pricing area compares to the rest of the country, or even compare what a [...]

Claims Management Software with XactAnalysis® SP

XactAnalysis for Service Providers (SP) is a secure, online management tool for assignment receivers such as insurance repair contractors, cleaning specialists, and independent adjusters. With XactAnalysis SP, Service Providers can view the same details that assignment senders see — including photos and sketched floor plans.

Texas Fires News: Evacuations

September 8th, 2011

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FEMA has authorized funds to help battle the fires in Central Texas. This authorization makes FEMA funding available to pay 75 percent of state and local government eligible firefighting costs.
Financial Times: The wildfires will cost agriculture industry $5.2 billion.

Update: As of 4 p.m. this fire has been extinguished. Residents in southeast Travis County started evacuating after 1 p.m. today when a fire broke between Highway 183 and SH 130. The evacuations are happening near the 15,000 block of Maha Drive.

The Christian Science Monitor wonders if Texas’ devastation is a result of sprawl putting developments in harm’s way. “In rapidly growing population areas like Austin, as more and more of the desirable land fills up, you get kind of a pushing in and a pressure to build in the zone that everybody knows you shouldn’t be building in,” says George Rogers, a senior research fellow at Texas A&M University’s Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. “As your population expands, it’s a natural consequence: You have built-in pressure to build in less safe places.”

Hurricane Irene Threatens East Coast

August 25th, 2011

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Officials are considering whether to evacuate low-lying areas of Manhattan after hurricane Irene barrelled out of the Bahamas towards a wide swath of the eastern US.

Irene, which achieved gusts of up to 128mph over Cat Island on Thursday, is forecast to maintain or even increase its intensity as it progresses. The slow-moving but powerful storm could hit North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Saturday morning with winds of around 115mph. It is predicted to travel up the east coast, spewing rain over parts of Virginia and Washington DC, New Jersey and New York City before reaching Maine on Monday afternoon.

Virginia’s Lateral West Fire

August 17th, 2011

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Though the sun was shining, those vacationing on the beaches in the Outer Banks may have experienced a hazy day. Smoke from southern Virginia’s Lateral West fire drifted south on Aug. 10, 2011, fanning out over coastal North Carolina. The previous day, smoke had been blowing north into the Washington, D.C., region.

Lightning started the fire on Aug. 4 in dry grass and brush in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The fire is burning in pine forest, grass, brush, dead fuel left from a previous fire and dry organic soil. As of late Aug. 9, the fire had consumed 3,200 acres. Because of the difficulty in fighting this type of fire, it will likely burn until at least six inches of rain falls in a short period of time, according to fire managers.

Perhaps the greatest threat posed by the Lateral West Fire is the dense smoke it is producing. Smoke can damage human health. It irritates the eyes and respiratory system and causes low visibility.