The first spell-check system was developed by a group of six linguists from Georgetown University in the late 1970s for...
Read More
Articles by Gary Blake
Gary Blake is director of The Communication Workshop, offering claims writing webinars and seminars to claims professionals throughout the US, Bermuda, Canada, and the UK. Blake is the author of The Elements of Business Writing (Pearson Education), used at more than 100 insurance companies. He has written about claims writing for a number of industry publications. His e-mail is garyblake725@gmail.com.
In almost every writing skills seminar, there comes a moment in which a participant finds that one of the notions...
Read More
By far, the trickiest punctuation mark in claims writing is the comma. There are eight comma rules, which we didn’t...
Read More
Not long ago, a judge decided a bad faith lawsuit in favor of a plaintiff because the lack of a...
Read More
As someone who teaches on-site seminars in “Effective Claims Writing,” I read hundreds of letters, memos, safety evaluation and site...
Read More
I am delighted to be writing a twice-monthly column on claims writing for Claims Journal. This first column will lay...
Read More