Protecting Home Inspectors from Meritless Claims

To Every Professional Home Inspector,

In 2016, you should be solely focused on growing your business and avoiding unnecessary distractions.
You must reduce the risk of hostile clients and unwarranted accusations that use up the twin terrors for any
business owner… time and money.

As I write this, I have responded to over 900 home inspection claims and only 5 of them have been
meritorious. Five. Out of nine hundred. That means that meritorious claims represent fewer than one
percent of all claims against home inspectors.

As an attorney who also represents plaintiffs, I find that quite remarkable. It’s almost as if plaintiffs’ attorneys
are not making any investigation at all into the potential validity of their clients’ claims.

Initially, I believed that my string of successful claim responses was aberrational and that the sample was
too small, too skewed toward the ridiculous claim to draw any meaningful conclusions.

But as the successful responses began to mount, one after another, I came to a different conclusion. I was
not seeing a skewed sample at all. I was seeing the sample. That, as a general proposition, a claim against a
professional home inspector is exceedingly unlikely to have any merit.

Yet, time after time, they were being negotiated. Settled. Typical insurance company jargon for surrender.
Even if the claim had zero merit.

And that had to stop. And slowly, but surely, utilizing my strategic method, it has. Thanks to a group of early
adopters, I took the leap and began my mission to Stop the Underbussing(!) of competent home inspectors
through my ClaimIntercept™ program.

One Florida home inspector’s inquiry in 2006 was the first in a very long line of home inspection claims to
which I have responded on behalf of home inspectors throughout the United States, Canada and Australia
in the intervening years.

If you want to learn more about the program, read the details across the fold or visit www.joeferry.com.

I’ve spent the last decade fighting for you as a legal advocate against these ridiculous claims.

I invite all of you to visit my website, subscribe to my free ClaimsAcademy educational video series and join
me on my mission.

I hope to see all of you on my 2016 Stop The Underbussing(!) Tour. And best success in 2016.

Joe Ferry
The Home Inspector Lawyer
www.joeferry.com