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Tag: independent adjuster

Getting Hired: Public Adjuster, Staff Adjuster, or Catastrophe Adjuster?

Posted by on in Independent Insurance Adjusting, Opinion

I was digging through some archives of scratch pad ideas for blog posts from a few years ago and thought it would be prudent to spread around a few tidbits of information for getting hired as an independent adjuster. This…

An Empirical Basis for Post-Claim Analytics: Examining closed files

Posted by on in Independent Insurance Adjusting, Opinion

An analogy should be considered in preface:  If we merely buried the dead without an autopsy, how far along would medicine be?.  Another mode is the age-old adage for the definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over…

No Multiple Estimates? Contractors trick insured saying they’ll work for the insurance claim amount

Posted by on in Contractors, Independent Insurance Adjusting

Late last week a contractor using the name Tim Arnold commented and and ultimately asked the ever important question, why?, with regard to our recommendation that insureds obtain three estimates from potential contractors. Maybe Tim will become the worlds most…

The Overnight Adjuster Dilemma: Insurance Claim Adjuster Training

Posted by on in Insurance Claim Handling, Opinion

Before I get to the dirt on insurance adjuster training, a short preface is necessary:  Between late nights in the office, missing cargo claims and property appraisals, I can occasionally be found mudding through the piles of resumes that end…

What is an Independent Public Adjuster?

Posted by on in Uncategorized

Public Adjuster: An independent person and/or company working to provide loss assessment and claim handling to an insurance carrier, attorney or self-employed entity; not working in a payroll but on an as needed basis. There really is no easy definition…

Why Public Adjusters are enemies of Independent Agents

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As if the insurance claim profession isnt plagued with enough problems, I came across an obscure article titled Why Public Adjusters are not enemies of Independent Agents, published in March of 2010 by Ronald Reitz, CPPA, on the Insurance Journals…

Loss Notification Part II Writing an Insured

Posted by on in Independent Insurance Adjusting

In this second part of Loss Notification for Independent Adjusters were going to discuss what you might consider when writing a loss notification letter to an insured. Well get to claimants in another post.  Please read Part I if you…

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