{"id":895459,"date":"2019-01-24T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=895459"},"modified":"2019-01-24T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T22:58:24","slug":"arbitration-is-not-appraisal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/arbitration-is-not-appraisal\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitration Is an Increasing Trend Found Within Property Insurance Policies, and Arbitration is Not Appraisal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chip Merlin | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/2019\/01\/articles\/insurance\/arbitration-is-an-increasing-trend-found-within-property-insurance-policies-and-arbitration-is-not-appraisal\/\">Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog<\/a> | January 15, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/files\/2019\/01\/Arbitration.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/files\/2019\/01\/Arbitration.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22534\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The photograph above depicts the Merlin Law Group \u201cWar Room\u201d during a week-long arbitration last week.\u00a0Michael Duffy, Ian Dankelman,\u00a0Eric Dickey, and\u00a0Kelly Kubiak\u00a0were the winning Merlin Law Group team obtaining a $3.1 million award on Saturday. What a way to start off the year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Arbitration is not appraisal.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>We have had policyholders and inexperienced lawyers from other law firms bring cases to us asking us to fix their bad arbitration awards because they treated the requirement of an arbitration like an appraisal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arbitrations require attorneys. It is almost like an informal trial. Evidence is presented after swearing in witnesses. It almost feels as if the proceeding is in a trial court. The proceedings are adversarial, and policyholders deserve to have excellent trial attorneys make the presentation because it is a lot more legally technical than an appraisal where the attorney\u2019s trial skills do not matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point of this post is to alert policyholders and public adjusters to determine whether the property insurance contract contains an arbitration provision versus an appraisal provision. We are finding more arbitration clauses within property insurance policies\u2014especially commercial policies issued by surplus lines insurance companies.&nbsp;<em><strong>If the property insurance policy contains an arbitration clause, the proceeding differs vastly from appraisal and the case must be prepared as if it were going to trial rather than an informal appraisal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | January 15, 2019 The photograph above depicts the Merlin Law Group \u201cWar Room\u201d during a week-long arbitration last week.\u00a0Michael Duffy, Ian Dankelman,\u00a0Eric Dickey, and\u00a0Kelly Kubiak\u00a0were the winning Merlin Law Group team obtaining a $3.1 million award on Saturday. What a way to start off the year!&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/arbitration-is-not-appraisal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arbitration Is an Increasing Trend Found Within Property Insurance Policies, and Arbitration is Not Appraisal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,10235],"tags":[9895,218,42],"class_list":["post-895459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration","category-insurance-appraisal","tag-advise-consult","tag-appraisal","tag-arbitration-2","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arbitration Is an Increasing Trend Found Within Property Insurance Policies, and Arbitration is Not Appraisal - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If the property insurance policy contains an arbitration clause, the proceeding differs vastly from appraisal. 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