WINMAR® Partnership Ensures 24-Hour Access To Emergency Response Services
After a loss occurs, getting your business back up and running as quickly as possible is critical to your bottom line. Extended periods of downtime can quickly add up to lost revenue and, more importantly, impact your company’s reputation, credibility as well as relationships with your clients and suppliers. To help ensure that our clients’ losses result in minimal downtime, we’ve developed an exclusive partnership with WINMAR® Canada’s largest national property restoration network.
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If the 2016 Fort McMurrary wildfire – with total damage estimated at almost $9B* – taught Canadians anything it is that we need to be prepared. Unfortunately, many companies also realize that in the aftermath of a post-catastrophic event, getting contractors quickly onsite to provide emergency response services can often be frustrating and challenging.
WINMAR® – A Canadian Leader in Emergency Response Services
Originally established in 1977, the WINMAR® restoration network of more than 90 service locations across Canada provides 24-hour disaster and emergency response services as well as preplanning for all residential, commercial, industrial or institutional properties. WINMAR® response and recovery services can include:
- Water, fire and smoke damage
- Vehicle impact
- Break and enter
- Speciality cleaning
- Mould remediation
- Asbestos abatement
- Bio-hazard clean up
- General contracting
- Board up / shoring
- Vandalism / graffiti
- Wind damage
- Contents processing
- Document recovery
- Business continuity planning
- Health and safety
- CAT planning
In the event of a catastrophic loss, ALIGNED clients have priority positioning with the more than 90 local WINMAR® restoration locations across Canada. Our partnership with WINMAR® is specifically designed to help ensure that all ALIGNED clients are up and running again as soon as possible.
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Priority claims response is just 1 of 18 points of differentiation that we proudly deliver to ALIGNED clients. To learn more about better insurance options, solutions and support that we line up everyday across Canada, contact an ALIGNED advocate here.
Sources: CBC.ca Canadian Underwriter WINMAR®
