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IMACC is up and running.(National Report)

By Hansen, Kirk
Publication: Claims
Date: Thursday, July 1 2004

The Independent Mitigation and Cleaning/Conservation Network is officially open for business. The organization was created to link insurers with independently owned and operated mitigation, cleaning, and restoration companies across the country, while providing the necessary tools and training to assure mission success.

If you ask IMACC President Pat Harmon why he is doing this, his response will be, "Something new and different had to be done." During his decade with the Property Loss Research Bureau as assistant vice president of educational and technical services, Ha

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