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Apartment building damage
Case Study — Fire Recovery

Apartments
Destroyed by Fire.

In January 2022, a large apartment fire broke out in Northeast Ohio. The fire quickly tore through more than 18 units, leaving almost 30 people displaced.

GMS Management Company
Severe Damage
24 months
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Devastating Fire Turn to the experts.

GMS Management hired the Sill Adjusting Group so they could focus on their recovery plan while our insurance experts handled their claim.

Overwhelmed Infrastructure

12,400+ simultaneous claims across 7 states, each requiring field inspection, documentation, and adjuster assignment within SLA windows.

Fragmented Data Systems

Legacy software across four separate carrier systems created data silos that slowed payment cycles by an average of 34 days.

Erosion of Trust

Policyholders were receiving no updates for weeks post-event — creating reputational risk and regulatory exposure for our client.

Talent Shortage

The regional adjuster pipeline was exhausted. We needed to rapidly train and deploy 200+ specialists across affected counties.

The Process

How we built it.

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Phase 01
Rapid Field Assessment
200 licensed adjusters deployed within 72 hours. Every property photographed, catalogued, and GPS-tagged using proprietary mobile tooling.
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Phase 02
Platform Unification
Legacy carrier data migrated to unified command system. Real-time dashboards gave adjusters, supervisors, and clients single-pane visibility.
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Phase 03
Command Center Operations
24/7 triage hub staffed with senior adjusters, legal liaisons, and communication specialists coordinating across 7 state offices.
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Phase 04
Proactive Communication
Automated weekly status reports delivered to all 12,400 policyholders. Average callback rate dropped from 42% to 8% within first month.
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Phase 05
Accelerated Settlement
98.3% of all claims resolved within agreed SLA. Average settlement time cut from industry standard 90 days to 42 days.
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"While I hope to never experience a loss again, such as we had in January 2022, I would never hesitate to contact your firm again to represent us in our settlement negotiations. On that, you can rely."

— Stuart Gaines, GMS Management Company

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Your recovery
starts here.

Whether you're managing a single complex claim or a catastrophic multi-state event, our team is equipped to lead every step of the recovery.

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