Stewart Valuation Intelligence Selects ShieldHub to Enhance Occupant Safety with Monitored Contractor Criminal Risk Scores

ShieldHub, a criminal background risk scoring and monitoring technology for independent contractors, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Stewart Valuation as an encouraged and accepted background screening solution for its national panel of vendors including inspectors, appraisers, property data collectors and field service professionals. ShieldHub will be providing a portable, living background risk scoring solution that includes integrated digital identity validation and multi-county background check with continuous monitoring.

“We’re excited to be working with Stewart Valuation team to deliver monitored risk awareness within their appraiser vendor network. Stewart Valuation is quick to recognize the inherent risk when dealing with occupant safety and the importance of doing everything possible to ensure that known criminals aren’t showing up at a customer’s door,” stated Shane Copeland, CEO of ShieldHub. “Stewart Valuation selected ShieldHub to implement a continuously monitored ShieldScore, which is backed and built based on a thorough background check. Awareness and current criminal risk reporting is one of the best defenses for site occupant protection. Stewart Valuation’s vendors will be joining the nearly 100,000 independent contractors that have reduced their background check costs by leveraging unlimited ShieldScore sharing through our robust and growing partner network of companies who are relying on ShieldScores today.”

Stewart Valuation will be able to engage vendors through their own private branded portal (https://www.shieldhub.store/stewartvaluation) that manages the entire process and provides continuous feedback that always identifies potential risk within their contractor panel.

“We are believers in the importance of background screening for our vendors. It is an essential part of what we do at Stewart Valuation”, said Aaron Fowler, Division President, Valuations. “Occupant safety and property security are always a top priority. We take great care to provide confidence to our clients and site occupants that we have fully vetted the ID and potential criminal risk for anyone we send onsite for an assignment. To achieve this, it is important for our team to obtain a current background check and ID validation as part of or prior to the engagement process. In the past, this has typically required our vendors to purchase multiple background checks per year for each hiring partner. With ShieldHub, the ShieldScore is sharable with all hiring partners and site occupants. The ShieldScore is also continuously checked against national crime databases for any potential changes in criminal history. The ShieldHub process provides us with confidence that our vendors are qualified and eligible ahead of time. Even better, the score is available for our team to monitor for an entire year.”

ShieldHub is a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliant criminal background-monitoring technology solution that enables a risk composite ShieldScore™ indicator for managing risk while engaging independent contractors. Unlike periodic background checks, ShieldHub includes continuous 24/7 monitoring and alerts when an independent contractor is out of compliance with the client’s risk policy. ShieldHub assigns each user a unique anonymized ShieldIDTM (ABC#) that provides partners with evidence of risk compliance and assurance to independent contractors that they have control of limiting the sharing of sensitive personal information with multiple clients or partners. Additionally, since the ShieldID™ number is owned by the individual, for the first-time independent contractors have complete portability to share their score to any ShieldHub partner while avoiding the redundant and costly nature of multiple background checks.