Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for estimating economic losses from hail storms. Accordingly, provided herein are methods for insurance underwriting of hail risk. Also provided are systems and computer-readable storage media configured for performing the disclosed methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for use by a property inspection company to receive requests for property inspections from customers, dispatch the requests to inspectors, receive inspection reports prepared by the inspectors, and store the reports in a database for retrieval by customers via a computer network. In addition, the present invention provides a system and method for automatically dispatching the requests to a preferred inspector using information associated with the requests and information associated with the company's inspectors. Further, the present invention provides a system and method for mining the database to generate management reports from the property inspection reports, which may be used to determine loss trends and predictors.