This article in Warranty Week, a newsletter for Warranty Management Professionals, provides some insight into the concerns and attitudes of three separate warranty providers toward the home inspection profession....
FLIR Systems has delivered its 100,000th commercial-use infrared camera. The FLIR thermal imager was sold by Professional Equipment, a distributor of FLIR infrared cameras, to Bob Childs, owner of Bob the Inspector Inc. in Green Valley, Ariz.
To commemorate the milestone, Childs and Professional Equipment were honored at an awards ceremony and press conference Nov. 5 in Tucson, Ariz. In addition to receiving the 100,000th infrared camera award, Childs received his FLIR BCAM SD infrared camera compliments of FLIR Systems ($3,450 value).
By Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg Times The board of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved what is likely the largest no-bid contract in its history last month, awarding $60 million to a software company in Jacksonville.
The contract gives Inspection Depot Inc. responsibility for coordinating re-inspections of as many as 400,000 of the one million homes insured by Citizens, the state's largest property insurer.
A home inspector in British Columbia has just been ordered by a judge to pay a couple $192,000, the difference between his estimate of $20,000 and the actual $212,000 cost to repair a home.
In his blog in the TCPalm today, a Florida Treasure Coast weekly, columnist Anthony Westbury reported that Knauf, the major producer of Chinese Manufactured drywall has accepted service of process of a class action. This moves the case to U.S. soil; previously, all claims against the Chinese manufacturer had to be routed through the International Court in The Hague.
Westbury also reports that earlier in the week in an article released by Scripps Howard News Service a US research firm is claiming to have found bacteria in Chinese drywall that may be emitting the sulfurous gases that are supposed to be the root cause of consumers' health an...
Editor's Note: Though appliances are outside the scope of an inspection in many jurisdictions, more than 100 people have been injured by these ranges so TIJ is providing inspectors this information so that they can warn clients and sellers about this danger.
