Mercury Insurance’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), founded in 1978, is the company’s first line of defense against fraudulent insurance claims,...
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Magazines
All plumbers worth their salt have heard that paste flux, used in soldering, causes pinhole leaks in copper pipe. While...
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Today’s crash forensics field is a high-tech industry with near-perfect accuracy capabilities. So why aren’t adjusters and insurers tapping into...
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Claims Journal magazine is pleased to announce the following members of its newly established editorial board: Steven Plitt, Ken Levine,...
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Manufacturers of products and providers of services can be held liable for injury, damage or economic loss suffered by a...
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Coverage questions arise in automobile liability where family members, as additional insureds, are living apart from the household of the...
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An estimated 4,609 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2011, down from the 4,690 fatal work...
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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is playing an increasingly frequent and important role in claims adjusting. The majority of an adjuster’s...
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Swoop and squat, drive-down and panic stop are examples of staged auto accidents, according to Frank Scafidi, director of public...
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The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and...
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