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?
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The Changing Face of Independent Claims
Adam Gardiner | AdjusterPro® Blog | October 2, 2015 First in a seven-part series on the evolving state of the claims industry. The independent claims industry is a bit like the Wild West: unpredictable, with few rules only erratically enforced and where only the strong survive. It’s tough. It requires grit. But often enough, you… Continue reading The Changing Face of Independent Claims
Litigation Against Florida Peninsula Related To The Right/Option To Repair Will Not Be Stayed
Shaun Marker | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | November 17, 2015 This post follows up on my last post involving the insurance carriers’ right to repair. In a recent court case,1 the insurer invoked its option to repair and asked that litigation be stayed until the policyholder complied with the “right to repair” option… Continue reading Litigation Against Florida Peninsula Related To The Right/Option To Repair Will Not Be Stayed
Insurers From Coast to Coast Notch Suit Limitation Victories
Dick Bennett | Property Insurance Law Observer | November 13, 2015 Over the last several months, courts in Washington, Kansas, and Virginia have awarded victories to carriers asserting a suit limitation defense, and there are three valuable takeaways from the decisions. First, the insurer need not demonstrate that it was prejudiced by the failure to… Continue reading Insurers From Coast to Coast Notch Suit Limitation Victories
Depreciation of Labor Class Action — Minnesota Supreme Court Oral Argument
Wystan Ackerman | Robinson & Cole | November 8, 2015 I’ve been following closely a series of class actions around the country alleging that, in calculating the “actual cash value” of property damage under a homeowners or commercial property insurance policy, insurance companies should not be applying depreciation to the labor component of the replacement… Continue reading Depreciation of Labor Class Action — Minnesota Supreme Court Oral Argument