Efficient Filing And Labelling Is Essential For Companies Archiving In Self Storage Units

Home insurance claims sometimes take several years to resolve once and for all

. The key organisation most customers will deal with is the Loss Adjustor, so their record archiving and efficiency is crucial.

The loss adjustor is the co-ordinating link between the issuers of a home insurance policy, the customer, the contractors who will make repairs and anyone else who might be liable for the damage that has been caused.

So it's quite likely that the loss adjusting company dealing with the claim will have to keep records on file for a number of years, and that usually means archiving documents in a storage facility away from the company offices.

Archiving in a secure storage facility with 24-hour access is obviously a more cost-effective solution than eating up acres of expensive office space, but it needs to be done properly to be effective.

In one case we know of, where a tree on public land owned by a local council caused subsidence damage to a nearby home, it's taken seven years for the situation to be addressed and is likely to be another two years before everything is finally resolved.

In this particular case once a year of investigations had established the cause of the cracks in the house walls, a schedule of works was prepared and builders moved in for three months to repair the damage, put in measures to prevent it happening again and make good.

The owners of the tree refused to fell it, though did cut it back, and were supposed to prune it regularly to prevent a recurrence of the problem. They didn't, however, and small cracks started reappearing in the same places in the house.

The loss adjustors had assured the home owner that the file could be re-opened if this happened, and the home owner contacted them once it did.

This was when the problems started, because it took nearly a year before the company finally dug out the files, which had been "archived" under the wrong name and with an incorrect phone number!

In the meantime, unfortunately, the loss adjusting company had also set up a new division to deal with this kind of case, with the result that a new representative had to be supplied with and get familiar with all the history and paperwork, by now several inches thick!

It would have been much more efficient if the company had used a labelling system when storing their archived files that made it easy for to access them even if the staff involved changed in the meantime.

Archive storage companies offer a range of space options so companies like our loss adjustors can be sure they have affordable space and easy access to their files.

But their efficiency was compromised because they plainly hadn't made sure they had an effective system for identifying and labelling files, and from the sound of things the storage facility was not within easy access of the office.

Archiving in a local self store facility doule have made a huge difference to efficiency in dealing with the customer's claim and saved a lot of anguish and phone calls.

Good self-store archiving facilities generally have experienced staff who can advise how best to store documents and give easy access around the clock.

One company we know of advises its customers to make two lists of the archived documents, leaving one with the storage company and keeping one at the customers' offices.

It can save a lot of time and trouble all round.

Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers

by: Alison Withers

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