Lawmakers took their first steps Wednesday toward reining in how property insurers do business in Louisiana, advancing out of committee a series of proposals that regulate how insurance companies respond to policyholders in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Following two years of devastating hurricanes, lawmakers said the No. 1 complaint […]
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“In this job you come face to face with people whose lives have been devastated, they’ve lost everything and you feel for them,” he said. Loss adjusters are employed by insurance companies to investigate and assess the claims of policyholders. Crawford is a global provider of these claims management services. […]
Florida property insurers may remember the strange case of Contender Claims Consultants and its associate, now-suspended Miami attorney Scot Strems. Back in 2019, it was the height of concerns about abuses of the state’s assignment-of-benefits law. Stories abounded about some public adjusters’ allegedly cozy relationship with restoration contractors, and about […]
After a flood claim is filed, the adjuster will serve as “the face of the carrier,” says Colonial Claims President Doug Branham. (Colonial Claims President Doug Branham) Colonial Claims is one of the largest independent insurance claims services companies in the U.S. Its team of more than 10,000 expert adjusters has […]
Virtual court proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic have seen their share of cyber blunders. Participants have appeared naked or with a beer in hand, while an errant video filter turned a Texas attorney into a cat during a Zoom hearing. In the Silicon Valley last month, an insurance adjuster provided […]
KEARNEY — Hailstorms. Ice storms. Earthquakes. Riots. Floods. As an insurance adjuster for the General Adjustment Bureau for 50 years, Bob Baltzell saw the country as he traveled to the scenes of disasters to settle claims. He went to Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico after a wildfire. He […]
Here are three ways insurance carriers can leverage artificial intelligence to attract a new generation of talent. (Photo: Shutterstock) Commercial insurance faces a growing claims adjuster staffing gap. On the retirement end, there’s a rising tide of experienced adjusters leaving the profession. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 10,000 […]