News Navigating the Property Appraisal Process May 9, 2012 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 May 4, 2012 “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 April 30, 2012 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 April 25, 2012 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 April 24, 2012 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 April 19, 2012 “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 April 15, 2012 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 April 15, 2012 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 April 12, 2012 “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 April 5, 2012 There was a time not long ago when most everyone working in claims were men, but current statistics and leadership... Read More