Prosper council approves firm to pursue insurer payments for fire/rescue mitigation; ordinance updated to add mitigation rates

The Prosper Town Council on Tuesday approved a professional services agreement with a private vendor to pursue collections from insurance companies for certain emergency and non‑emergency fire department responses, and adopted an accompanying ordinance to add Fire Department mitigation rates to the town fee schedule.

Fire Chief Blassingame told the council the town had explored several vendors that recover costs from commercial insurance policies after incidents that use significant town resources. The firm described in the staff presentation — variably referred to in the record as “Emergifier,” “EmergifyRE” and in the motion as “Emergent Fire LLC” — will operate similarly to third‑party EMS billing services the town uses. The vendor’s fee is a percentage of collections; staff said the proposed contract charges the vendor 15 percent of…