The Hartford Insurance Co., in its statistical review of types of insurance claims, lists water and freeze damage to properties accounts for 15% of their insurance claims. The total annual losses due to water damages cost the United States $15 billion dollars, according to Iproperty Management. The pay out is not only staggering but the inconvenience, emotional and business interruption losses are impossible to measure. When insurance companies payout, insurance costs will generally increase to the property owner, if not individually, but like a rising tide to all of their customers.
Forensic engineers determine the cause of a plumbing failure’s water damages. These failures usually result from one or a combination of things, including failed plumbing products, installation error, wrong plumbing part, freezing, environment, over pressurization, blocked pipes, system design error and/or impact damages. The cause of a plumbing leak is analyzed forensically by forensic engineers.