Restoration Contractors Providing Great Quality Workmanship Are Policyholder Friends But Many Insurance Companies Refuse To Pay For Quality

Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | February 17, 2019 Contractors often tell me and other Merlin Law Group attorneys of the crazy excuses and refusals insurance adjusters give to avoid paying for required construction materials, processes, and practices which constitute quality workmanship. Cheap and non-quality construction is easy to do and often… Continue reading Restoration Contractors Providing Great Quality Workmanship Are Policyholder Friends But Many Insurance Companies Refuse To Pay For Quality

Insurance Company Adjuster Training Scripts and Role Paying

Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | September 24, 2018 Insurance companies spend time training their insurance adjusters. Training is a very important. It sets the tone and culture of how the claims department functions. Training can be ethical and professional as discussed by Ken Brownlee in Insurance Companies Must Perform in Good Faith… Continue reading Insurance Company Adjuster Training Scripts and Role Paying

Denied Water Damage Claims and Unethical Adjuster Conduct

Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | July 9, 2018 Denied water damage claims are one of the more frequently handled claims by our law firm. The cost to repair these claims can be quite high depending on many factors including the length of time the water leaked, the length of the leak,… Continue reading Denied Water Damage Claims and Unethical Adjuster Conduct

For Adjuster Ethics, the “I’s” Have it!

Ken Brownlee, CPCU | Property Casualty 360° | January 6, 2017 In his introduction to Winning by the Rules, Ethics and Success in the Insurance Profession, the Iconoclast identifies a number of words, each beginning with the letter “I,” that are often associated with ethics: Integrity, (implying Incorruptibility), Information (which requires Intelligence), Initiative, Ingenuity, Imagination,… Continue reading For Adjuster Ethics, the “I’s” Have it!

Time to Hang Up the Spurs?

Adam Gardiner | AdjusterPro® Blog | November 6, 2015 The Wild West Heads Indoors: Inside Adjusting In our last article, The Changing Face of Independent Claims, we discussed how the claims industry is fundamentally changing the way it does business. The unpredictable and unregulated Wild West era of independent claims adjusting is becoming further streamlined,… Continue reading Time to Hang Up the Spurs?