Fellow H&S Professionals Below is a dilemma which could face any one of us who have to repair works done under insured claims. Below is wording from a letter recently received by one of my work colleagues: The CDM side of thing is complicated one but my understanding of this is that as this is insurance related and funded by the same then regardless of the type of property the job is classed as commercial and therefore notification should it exceed 30 working days or 500 man hours. As such and because of the consequences if you do not notify this is something that should be done in your case. This would then have to involve our surveyor and their involvement to the conclusion of the job monitoring the works etc, something you want to run with. An option to consider would be that we agree a cash settlement in final settlement of the buildings claim at the net figure of £49,236.70. This then allows you flexibility over the repairs and you then take responsibility/control for managing the works. This removes the need for our surveyors involvement through out the repairs and CDM notification as you would be funding the works. If the option is acceptable then I just need your written agreement to it and I can then arrange for the funds to be sent from your Insurers. You are then in position to deal with the building side of things with no further involvement from myself or surveyors. All assistance on this would be appreciated.

That "p.s." didn't come out well. I only meant to say the wording was clumsy.

Tim, This simply looks me as though the insurers are looking to avoid taking on the Project Management liability and has nothing to do with CDM! I suspect that they outsource this and the project management service provider does have a baseline fee for smaller projects as the work involved is still significant. If I had received a letter like that, I would get a quote for the project management aspect of the work together an additional contingency fee and seek a settlement on that basis.