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    Manufactured Hail Damage: Telling Fraud From Storm Damage

    RCIForensic paper

    A roof consultant's field guide to spotting deliberately fabricated hail damage — hammer strikes, dime-spinning, mandrel punctures — by what real ice cannot do to mineral granules, and by checking the peripheral surfaces a genuine storm always marks.

    Source: Interface (RCI, Inc.) — Lyle D. Hogan, PE, RRC, FRCI · Professional paper · 2013

    • manufactured hail damage
    • fraudulent hail damage
    • hammer marks
    • dime spinning
    • granule loss
    • hail fraud inspection
    • peripheral damage
    • collateral indicators
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