The Roofing Contractors Association of Texas Creates a Licensing Program to Help Prevent Scams

Where there’s rain, hail, wind and trees, there’s potential damage. It’s not hard to find a local independent roofing contractor to save the day, especially post-storm, but there’s a problem: Where there’s a storm, there’s a scam — especially in Texas.

Former State Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman reported that Texas has one of the highest roofing repair fraud rates in the country. With the state’s record-breaking weather, it’s no wonder that Texas took the number one spot on State Farm’s list of the most hail damage insurance claims for 2014, with almost 52,000 claims. North Texas was a magnet for fraudulent contractors at the end of 2015, during a period of record hail storms, rainfall and tornadoes. The Better Business Bureau of Dallas received 1,058 complaints against roofing contractors at that time.