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Integrating Property Insurance With Your FEMA Claim

When a disaster strikes, organizations and communities face a multitude of challenges. Understanding which government entities cover damages through claims, grants, or other funding streams is vital to your recovery. At Tidal Basin, we integrate our recovery program with a holistic approach to FEMA claims. We provide public adjusting services for property damage claims delivered by our licensed regional public adjusters. Our combined experience and resources help fully prepare and accelerate our clients’ recovery.

Our knowledge and proactiveness help you develop and apply a solution that unites the property insurance and FEMA portions of your disaster recovery into one financial recovery strategy for your immediate and long-term needs.

An accurate understanding of your anticipated insurance settlement is integral to moving your FEMA grant forward with minimal delays. The two processes take different perspectives on everything, from what’s eligible to how it’s quantified. Our disaster recovery experts can assist you with both the FEMA and insurance recovery processes and to help you establish a well-documented insurance claim as the basis for your recovery.

The Right Foundation for Your Claim To FEMA

Successfully recovering all eligible costs requires a firm grasp of the basics of the program and how insurance and FEMA complement one another. No one understands this interaction better than our team. We know the proper way to prepare project worksheets and what systems must be in place to track and account for all monies spent on a disaster. We deliver this critical knowledge, coupled with unwavering client advocacy, to help you receive all the funding to which you are entitled from both your insurance claim and FEMA.

Our Recovery Services

  • Compliance With FEMA
    Compliance With FEMA
    Compliance with FEMA funding procurement guidelines and other special considerations, including environmental issues.
  • Reconciling FEMA
    Reconciling FEMA
    Reconciling FEMA and insurance recoveries.
  • Hazardous Mitigation
    Hazardous Mitigation
    Maximizing hazard mitigation opportunities.
  • Total Financial Recovery Strategy
    Total Financial Recovery Strategy
    Implementation of a proactive total financial recovery strategy that addresses the immediate and long-term rebuilding needs.
  • Reimbursement & Audit
    Reimbursement & Audit
    Establishing guidelines for reimbursement and audit compliance.
  • Project Worksheets
    Project Worksheets
    Preparing accurate project worksheets in a FEMA acceptable format, which include scopes of work and valid cost estimates.
  • Funding Plan
    Funding Plan
    Development of a full funding plan to support your vision for rebuilding.
  • Determining Eligibility
    Determining Eligibility
    Ensuring all eligible costs and damages have been identified and reported to the State and FEMA.
  • Documentation of Debris Removal
    Documentation of Debris Removal
    Documentation of debris removal, force account, and contract labor.
  • Site Inspection
    Site Inspection
    Thorough on-site inspection of damaged property and facilities.
  • Database Systems
    Database Systems
    Development of state-of-the-art accounting and database systems.
  • FEMA Grant Closeout
    FEMA Grant Closeout
    Providing FEMA Grant closeout assistance.

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Your knowledge of the complex governmental regulations and equally complex insurance and adjusting issues really helped the county maximize the public assistance that was available after all of these disasters. You delivered what you promised, and we are confident in your ability and the ability of your firm to provide these services fully on a technical and professional level yet be able to translate clearly and concisely the intricate and sometimes subjective FEMA regulations which we could not have done without you.

Salvatore R. Zappulla, Division Director Monroe County Budget and Finance, Monroe County, Florida

The State of Alaska…[has] a significant investment in the disaster recovery process for both state and federally declared events…. The collaboration with Tidal Basin in these efforts has been so successful and seamless that in most instances applicants and FEMA staff don’t even realize we have contractors on board unless we tell them. Our interaction with Tidal Basin staff and managers works and feels like true teammates and the result is a faster, more comprehensive delivery of disaster recovery resources to survivors.

Sam Walton, Program Manager for Disaster Assistance, State of Alaska

Months after the storm passed, the County was still faced with tremendous burdens related to the insurance coverage issues and FEMA and MEMA eligibility issues. Jackson County hired your organization to provide professional services for disaster assistance, remediation, restoration and recovery efforts….Their expertise with governmental regulations, the complex FEMA process and insurance adjustments resulted in our successful claim for over $2 million in additional FEMA Public Assistance funding specifically; in our successful negotiations with our insurance carrier; and in numerous other increases in the values FEMA and MEMA initially designated for County projects. Jackson County will always be mindful of the help we received from you when we needed it most.

Alan K. Sudduth, County Administrator, Board of Supervisors, Jackson County, Mississippi