PHYSICAL PLAN - BEFORE

• Call fire department, police, etc.
• Call Disaster Masters ® at
  1-800-THE-CLAIM
• Notify in-house Disaster Team
• Declare a disaster
• Safeguard staff
• Safeguard property
• Assure staff things will get back to normal
• Perform witch hunts for work in progress
• Recover Rolodex, personal belongings of employees
• Protect property from further losses
• Arrest on-going damage
• Call telephone company
• Commence assessing the damage
• Remove salvaged property to secure facilities
• Retrieve stored information
• Set up temporary facilities
  

FINANCIAL PLAN - BEFORE

• Notify insurance company
• Create hourly diary and file for events and costs
• Document meetings, conversations, telephone calls
• Record names and addresses of witnesses
• Ignore public adjusters totally
• Gather insurance claim from planning sessions
• Gather emergency service invoices
• Gather appraisals and photographic inventories
• Gather latest inventories
• Gather records - accounts receivable, payroll, etc.
• Notify bank
• Gather cash flow records
• Use outside resources whenever possible
• Avoid using personnel for salvage/restoration work
• Commence establishing the scope of loss
• Notify appropriate contractors that bids are needed
• Consult with Disaster Masters ® at 1-800 THE CLAM