Sinkhole Damage Insurance Claims

Sinkholes can cause extensive property damage depending their size and depth. While some sinkholes have swallowed buildings, many leave a house or commercial property heavily damaged or uninhabitable.

Signs of a sinkhole include prominent cracks in the home’s interior and exterior, or in the windows, doors, walls and ceilings. In addition, windows and doors may be hard to close as they no longer fit properly in their frames. There might be depressions in the yard surrounded by dying vegetation, or a driveway or walkway might be deeply cracked. In other cases, water from the faucets might have large amounts of sediment, and there are even cases when the homeowner can see the ground opening up.Sinkholes are funnel-shaped depressions in land that usually occur when the underlying limestone is dissolved by ground water. They are particularly common  in South Texas & Florida where much of the land is karst, which is limestone, gypsum or dolomite.

If you see these indications of a sinkhole, contact Abba Claims Consultants Public Adjusters and let us assess the damage in conjunction with the insurance company. In many cases, the insurer will send a professional engineering team to the property, drill into the ground and check the soil. They will take samples of the soil and analyze the soil composition to determine whether there has been sinkhole activity. It usually takes about a month for the homeowner to receive the results of the soil testing.

Abba Claims Consultants Public Adjusters can relieve the headaches involved with filing a sinkhole claim and help the property owner receive fair and equitable compensation for the damage.

For instance, if the engineers conclude that the damage to the home isn’t the result of a sinkhole, we can work with the engineers and the insurers to sort out the cause of the damage. We can even help in hiring another engineering company to retest the soil if it appears there were problems with the initial analysis. In any case, we are on your side at every step of the day.