Pest Management Professional, August 2011
W hats the difference between a wooddestroying insect WDI and or wood destroying organism WDO a mold and a bedbug inspection and treatment The answer is really quite simple very little That is at least not from a process or procedural viewpoint While each target pest and its issues are unique the processes and procedures essentially are the same The 1990s and Warranties In the 1990s the lawsuit of the day involved termite damage claims and WDO WDI inspection claims The pest management professional PMP was at Lessons Learned the mercy of very weak and ambiguous WDO WDI reports Many inspectors made the serious mistake of putting in or omitting information from these reports causing a lot of expensive litigation Thanks to better trained technicians effective products improved contracts and forms better claims handling techniques and better consumer understanding these claims and resulting lawsuits have significantly dropped The key issues here though are better reports and education In the late 1990s many claims were filed on treated homes under contract with damage warranties or guarantees There are always claims of this type but many PMPs and insurers probably agree that there was an increase in termite damage Legal Greg Crosslin and Andy McGinty Contributors Dont let the bedbugs bite 60 August 2011 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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