News Navigating the Property Appraisal Process Determining if an appraisal is the right route for a claim is important because once an appraisal is set, it... Read More
Southeast News Florida’s Sinkhole Statute Continues to Evolve “The head has been cut off the sinkhole monster,” said Curtis Hutchens, an in-house attorney for Florida’s Citizen’s Property Insurance... Read More
News Evaluating Tenders of Defense and Indemnification Evaluating additional insured and contractual indemnification tenders means asking what was promised by an insured to others and how the... Read More
Texas / South Central News Apache Corp. Donates $350K for New Oklahoma Sirens Woodward, Okla., will soon have a new tornado warning system. Apache Corp, an oil and gas exploration and production company,... Read More
News Resolving Disputes with Restoration Companies Billing disputes with restoration vendors often involve a common scenario – a water loss prompts an insured’s frantic call to... Read More
News Tips on Defending Catastrophic Injury Claims “Subpoena everything” when investigating and defending catastrophic injury claims, Calif.-based attorney James Kaminski said while speaking to adjusters at the... Read More
Special Report Claims Tales from Joplin Threatening Storm Cloud on May 22, 2011 “I took this picture while standing on my back deck on Sunday evening,... Read More
Idea Exchange Good Faith in Handling First Party Property Claims If there is one thing that is the scourge of claims handlers, it is the allegation of bad faith. And... Read More
News Do Claims Departments Rely Too Much on Metrics “Are you being numbered to death?” That’s the question raised by Ed Kent, a Calif.-based insurance defense and claims practices... Read More
News Gender Shift in Company Claim Departments There was a time not long ago when most everyone working in claims were men, but current statistics and leadership... Read More