I worried about the adjusters' visit, having heard that adjusters can be stingy.
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But when the adjusters — a married couple from Mobile, Ala.
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Most adjusters know folks who can fix just about anything.
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Specifically, the CLAIM Act would grant each state four years to adopt uniform and reciprocal licensing laws for independent claims adjusters, enabling properly licensed adjusters to assess and settle claims across state lines without discrimination.
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After the storm, however, adjusters tend to the biggest claims first.
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Timing device assemblers and adjusters are projected to decline by 20.1%
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Adjusters International was chosen by the housing department after a bidding process.
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The panel, which oversees Housing Department contracts, found that Adjusters International Inc.
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Securing the ability of adjusters to transfer licensure across state lines; e.
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Meanwhile, eligible policyholders can receive financial assistance before adjusters inspect for damages.
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Property owners and insurance adjusters will also be allowed into the city.
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Examples of mixed-gender jobs include claims adjusters, property managers, and retail salespersons.
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"They have used the subject of the public adjusters as an excuse," he said.
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Ultimately, drones can help claims adjusters process property significantly faster than doing so manually.
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Will claims adjusters have to become computer experts to analyze the data and reconstruct accidents?
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It didn't fit so easily with the 4.7 inch iPhone 7, even with the tray adjusters.
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In the future, computers are going to be better accountants, financial advisors, actuaries, claims adjusters, etc.
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Once on site, claims adjusters unpack the fully assembled drones and, using their iPads, launch them.
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Homeowners often hire public adjusters to help file insurance claims and figure out what was lost.
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In New York State, public adjusters can charge as much as 12.5 percent of your settlement.
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Early in his career Cohen worked for a lawyer who pleaded guilty to bribing insurance adjusters.
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In a way, we have become a society of picture adjusters - who doesn't love a filter?!?
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An extra 11,000 insurance-claims adjusters were hired, and building-supply stores took on another 5,000 staff.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After Hurricane Matthew blows by the U.S. Southeast, the insurance adjusters will come out.
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Insurance adjusters discovered that drones allow for more efficient and safe property inspections, especially in flooded areas.
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That number is likely to up as insurance adjusters process more claims for the hard-hit area.
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While "Madden" ratings adjusters describe the process as a delicate science, many NFL players dispute their rankings.
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In the past five years, the CFPB has received 700 complaints about National Credit Adjusters' collection practices.
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Those reports were evaluated by flood insurance adjusters and federal officials, and homeowners were reimbursed based on them.
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The legislation would incentivize those states that license independent claims adjusters to adopt uniform and reciprocal licensing laws.
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Fine Art Specie Adjusters, the palace's insurance company, says they may offer up to £100,000 (~$129,000) for its return.
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Adjusters would offer a rental car, often those of Enterprise, instead of cash to a driver making a claim.
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This type of policy allows for extremely rapid payment, since no loss assessment processes or loss adjusters are necessary.
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Many large insurers use their own adjusters, while smaller and midsize rivals are more likely to hire outside help.
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Within three years of Cohen's arrival, Estrin was charged with bribing insurance adjusters to inflate damage estimates and expedite claims.
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But while "Madden" ratings adjusters describe their process as an thorough science, fans and professional players alike frequently dispute them.
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Those functionality based lingerie elements include memory foam pads, front adjusters, J-hook backs, and "gorgeous, geometric laces," she says.
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Few adjusters can immediately authorize payments, especially if policyholders are insured though state agencies or the National Flood Insurance Program.
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But those numbers will probably jump next month, as the recovery effort creates jobs for insurance adjusters, construction workers and others.
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A.I. that can learn from experience will replace many accountants, lawyers, bankers, insurance adjusters, doctors, scientific researchers and some creative professionals.
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On Sunday afternoon, Hartford was prepared to send adjusters into Irma-battered areas "as authorities allow access," spokeswoman Kelly Carter said.
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You can purchase a pack of 2 21mm breast shields separately if needed4 bra adjusters, machine washable2 micro USB charging cables.
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Cordray was ready to sue Kansas-based National Credit Adjusters (NCA), which primarily collects debt for online lenders operating on tribal land.
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"Madden" rates more than 3,000 NFL players each season, but the game's ratings adjusters say that quarterbacks are the hardest to judge.
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Sometimes, insurers need to recruit independent claims adjusters from out of state — scammers seize this opportunity to exploit homeowners, according to CNBC.
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"No one remembers what's in their house, not even me," said Bob D'Amore, the president of the New York Public Adjusters Association.
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Prosecutors did not go so far as to accuse engineers, adjusters and out-of-state insurers of colluding to minimize insurance payments.
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From insurance claims adjusters to the ever-fading video rental industry, here are 15 jobs that have declined since Trump took office:
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Today's insurance claims adjusters are struggling with an outdated set of licensing laws and regulations that is long past due for reform.
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He said that nine of the 2000 municipalities it covers have not been fully paid, and that seven of those use public adjusters.
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Companies are personnel heavy, with agents, adjusters and analysts comprising more than 2 million jobs and using legacy systems built around paper documents.
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Claims adjusters obtain the tools to enjoy an automated experience; a mobile solution enables consumers of insurers to settle a claim completely virtually.
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Dozens of complaints allege that National Credit Adjusters tried to collect on loans from people who may not even have owed any money.
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Insurance claims adjusters, toy stores, and newspaper publishers have all seen large drops in employment in the last two and a half years.
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The court will consider a lawsuit brought by sisters Cori and Kerri Rigsby, former claims adjusters who worked with State Farm after the hurricane.
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In some marinas, lopsided, half-sunk cabin cruisers and sailboats stick out of the shallow water, their fate left to insurance adjusters and salvagers.
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Adjusters investigate claims on behalf of property insurers like Travelers Cos Inc, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc, Allstate Corp, State Farm and Farmers Insurance.
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In affected cities, like Houston, due to the extent of damage, insurers have had to recruit independent claims adjusters, some from out of state.
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Consider the fact that there are currently 34 different state licensing regimes for insurance claims adjusters, only a few of which are partially reciprocal.
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It will be selecting and customizing the drones State Farm flies, and even providing the pilots who will accompany claims adjusters and operate the aircraft.
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The bad news was what they said would not be covered — our garage, for instance, because, the adjusters said, it includes a home office above.
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Claims adjusters need a bachelor's degree in finance, insurance or business and should take a pre-licensing course in order to pass the licensing exam.
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But Mr. Buttigieg goes too far in his prediction that all the claims adjusters, insurance underwriters and brokers in the country would be laid off.
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Texas and Florida together have more than 340,000 licensed adjusters, according to state agencies, but it was unclear precisely how many were on the ground.
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Several states require a physical business location for adjusters operating within the state – despite the fact that office space isn't needed to adjust a claim.
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The hoops are made from snag-free plastic and have screw and wing-nut adjusters to accommodate different thicknesses of fabric and hold the fabric securely.
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Claims adjusters inspect the property damage of a home, business, or automobile in order to determine how much an insurance company should pay for the loss.
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The finished product has ultra-thin memory foam cups, two-way convertible straps (worn either straight or crisscrossed), gold alloy strap adjusters, and a keyhole detail.
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Farmers Insurance, the third-largest property insurer in Texas, plans to use Kespry drones to assess damage in a joint effort with on-the-ground claims adjusters.
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The storms will probably even bolster employment temporarily, at least in the affected states, as the recovery effort creates jobs for insurance adjusters, construction workers and others.
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The bill also now addresses the needs of rural Americans, and particularly America's family farms, by streamlining the process for crop adjusters to work across state lines.
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"It's a fact of life after every disaster that there's a shortage of experienced adjusters," said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a consumer advocacy group.
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Two insurers including AXA ART, a unit of AXA, have an insurable interest in the art works within the cathedral, Honore said, adding five adjusters had been commissioned.
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The head of the Center for Responsible Lending slammed Mulvaney after news broke that he was dropping the lawsuit against National Credit Adjusters and three other payday lenders.
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Two insurers including AXA ART, a unit of AXA, have an insurable interest in the art works within the cathedral, Honore said, adding five adjusters had been commissioned.
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A micro rule transforms the smallest class of drones into safe, everyday tools for firefighters, roof inspectors, insurance adjusters, real-estate agents, farmers, independent videographers, and powerline technicians.
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"You can't see the roads," said Alvaro Trueba, a regional catastrophe coordinator for property insurer Chubb Ltd, who told Reuters that adjusters face difficulties driving about the island.
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He spoke by phone from Paris after attending a meeting of adjusters - specialists appointed by insurers to investigate claims on their behalf - at a site close to the cathedral.
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Those reports were then submitted — without the consent of the engineers who did the work — to adjusters and federal officials who were evaluating the homeowners' flood claims, prosecutors say.
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Soon the National Guard would arrive, military-run tent cities would rise, people would guard their houses with shotguns, and an army of roofers and insurance adjusters would arrive.
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That is why insurance companies employ legions of lawyers, adjusters, and other professionals who work hard every day to make sure they keep as much money as they can.
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It's time for policymakers to offer solutions that modernize laws governing insurance claims adjusters – before the next disaster strikes and more Americans are inconvenienced by our current, outdated process.
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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis has sent adjusters to Eastpoint to help residents file a partial claim settlement for up to $5,000 per household to help with immediate needs.
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The insurance battles on the island put a spotlight on the work of public adjusters, often hired by clients who suffer damages to help make their case to insurance companies.
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He listed non-trial corporate lawyers, accountants and book keepers, insurance adjusters, and doctors as key jobs that will be partially eliminated or greatly changed by machine learning and AI.
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Reuters reported that the CFPB's own investigation found that National Credit Adjusters wrongly collected around $50 million nationally, of which bureau lawyers were hoping to return $45 million to victims.
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After Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy in 2005 and 2012, it took months for many property owners to receive payouts, partly because there were too few adjusters with the needed expertise.
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Some pollsters are holding off making calls even as phone service returns because it's unseemly to call homeowners who are interested in talking only to insurance adjusters about home damage.
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At different times, Frankel argued that the role of adjusters and eveners had been played by monopolies such as Standard Oil, the major international oil firms, and governments, sometimes in combination.
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Drones can play a role in augmenting the work of traditional insurance adjusters, IoT devices can provide automated data and blockchain technology can be used to battle costly issues like fraud.
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In those cases, Salesforce's tools may be used to dispatch adjudicators already and these claims adjusters often also use Kespry's services to fly the drones to assess roof damage, for example.
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They wound up using that familiarity in 2016 to build a training simulation for Farmers Insurance in which claims adjusters hone their eye for details by walking through a VR house.
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Claims adjusters at Amica Mutual Insurance, for example, recently began using an IBM iPad app to collect information on claims, take photos, record statements and gain access to individual customer files.
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By dropping the investigation into National Credit Adjusters, Mulvaney calls into question his statement that the bureau's enforcement will focus on cases where there is "quantifiable and unavoidable harm" to consumers.
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The indictment does not address the long-held suspicion among many homeowners whose properties were battered by the storm that engineers, adjusters and out-of-state insurers colluded to minimize payouts.
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They feature a center crease, horn buttons, slant front pockets, side adjusters (you can forgo a belt if you so choose), welt back pockets, and an off-center button-front closure.
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There was no small measure of haggling with insurance adjusters during the process, but nine months after the storm, Ms. Kait and her family moved back into a fully restored house.
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The association currently maintains state campaigns in California, New York, and Texas, working to ensure the regulatory environment benefits adjusters and the consumers they serve in times of loss or disaster.
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Zurich Insurance Group AG had Florida-based claims adjusters riding out the storm locally on Sunday, with plans to begin visiting commercial properties as soon as possible, spokesman David Hilgen said.
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Everyone from insurance adjusters to police officers is empowered to poke around in people's brains when they need answers, turning the entire population into de facto CCTV cameras that are always rolling.
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In the event of a home flood, Bethell advises contacting a public adjuster before calling your insurance company as adjusters regularly work with insurance companies and know all the guidelines and timeframes.
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Some analysts forecast millions of jobs will be lost once self-driving cars largely replace truck, taxi and Uber drivers, and eliminate the need for most vehicle repairs, insurance adjusters and other functions.
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Although liability may shift from drivers to manufacturers, the claims process will remain the same, but will require more highly trained adjusters and collision-repair technicians to manage costs and properly fix vehicles.
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In New York, a Department of Financial Services investigation found that the payday loans in National Credit Adjusters' portfolio carried interest rates "substantially" higher than the state's criminal usury cap of 25 percent.
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Uncounted thousands more evacuees are staying with relatives or friends, or have crowded into hotels, while their homes molder, insurance adjusters crisscross the region and, in some downstream communities, the floodwaters rise again.
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In this case, the Democrats—who are often far less religious than Republicans—may be more inclined to understand the necessity for changing our DNA or embracing nanotech to be become better climate-adjusters.
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The debt buyers, National Credit Adjusters of Hutchinson, Kansas and Chesapeake, Virginia-based Webcollex, improperly purchased and collected on the illegal loans, according to the New York Department of Financial Services, which negotiated the settlements.
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It'll be using Airware's full-stack drones to help roof insurance claim adjusters — a tough and dangerous job that often requires employees to climb ladders or use ropes and harnesses to assess damage to houses.
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That data set has been analyzed on an individual photo basis by claims adjusters, roofers and other experts and it ostensibly continues to grow and improve via machine learning with every new image it processes.
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Two sisters, Cori and Kerri Rigsby, brought the lawsuit after State Farm told them and other insurance adjusters to misclassify wind damage that it was required to pay as flood damages covered by federal funds.
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" Susskind declares that machines are getting so smart that they'll soon replace humans at a growing list of jobs, potentially including doctors, bricklayers and insurance adjusters, thus ending what he calls the "Age of Labor.
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But unfortunately, a complicated patchwork of state laws governing claims adjusters provides exactly the opposite: an inefficient, time-consuming, and expensive process that fails to serve the needs of consumers in the wake of a disaster.
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Information technology has also destroyed or decimated the jobs of many white-collar workers, such as computers (which used to be a job title), typographers, insurance adjusters, travel agents, stock traders, financial advisors, and customer service agents.
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"The one-two punch of Harvey and Irma is no question challenging to the industry," said Kenneth Tolson, who heads the U.S. property and casualty division of Crawford & Co, which provides claims adjusters and staff after disasters.
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Although insurers maintain some number of inspectors, known as claims adjusters, across the U.S. year-round, they must redeploy staff from other areas or hire contract workers to fill gaps when catastrophes like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma strike.
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When you're ready, here's how to start navigating the claims process: Depending on where you live, insurance adjusters may not be able to get in right away, said Loretta Worters, a vice president for the Insurance Information Institute.
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But the sheer scope of the California disaster — coming soon after major hurricanes in Texas and Florida — will probably mean that insurers and adjusters, who visit properties to assess how much the insurer will pay, will be stretched thin.
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Parents and students shouldn't be blamed, because employers give preference to college graduates in hiring for many jobs that hardly require the esoteric stuff we do at universities—for example, insurance adjusters, cell phone sales people, makeup artists and the like.
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State Farm argued the claims brought by the sisters, former claims adjusters who worked for the company after the hurricane, should be voided because their lawyer violated a court order requiring that details of the case be kept under seal.
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Insurance underwriters point out hazards facing fans who don't sign waivers, like dilapidated bleachers and dirty concession stands, to track owners before issuing policies, but they rarely require head-and-neck devices, according to interviews with track owners and insurance adjusters.
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As such, it's part of what the Manila-born food historian Doreen Fernandez termed a "galaxy of flavor-adjusters" that define how Filipinos eat: seasonings added to dishes after they're served, in trickles and pinches, according to each diner's taste.
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In March, a Reuters investigation found that the agency had also dropped a lawsuit lawyers were preparing to file against another payday lender, called National Credit Adjusters, and that Mulvaney was weighing the possibility of halting lawsuits against three others.
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State Farm argued that the claims brought by the sisters, former claims adjusters who worked for the company after the hurricane, should be voided because their lawyer violated a court order requiring that details of the case to be kept under seal.
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Read more: These are the top 32 quarterbacks in the NFL, according to 'Madden 20'This year, Madden's ratings adjusters said overall player ratings have been decreased across the board to make the game more realistic and separate superstars from average players.
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For a week after Harvey, for example, there were hundreds of qualified, experienced adjusters from out-of-state trying to get in to process claims but couldn't because Texas, which requires its own state-specific license, was unable to timely process applications.
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After that time, if such uniformity and reciprocity has not been achieved by a certain state, the CLAIM Act authorizes independent claims adjusters to apply to the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB) for a license under which to operate.
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Working out of truck trailers, temporary tents and recreational vehicles in mall parking lots, and equipped with generators and satellite communications, insurance adjusters say they have been stymied in part by a ban on flying drones over what is left of the town of 27,000.
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Nine other states refuse to grant reciprocity for out-of-state adjusters even though they have previously passed the licensing exam in their designated home states, and at least two jurisdictions refuse to license an adjuster who is not a resident of that jurisdiction.
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Dozens of insurers with exposure in the area have taken steps to ensure an efficient process, such as bringing more than 800 adjusters and creating makeshift information centers in the city, said Bill Adams, a vice president at the Insurance Bureau of Canada, a trade group.
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"There are so many areas that have been hit by devastating winds and now the massive flooding, and insurance adjusters are having to wait for first responders to simply check on the safety and welfare of citizens," said Mark Hanna of the Insurance Council of Texas.
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The company says a lawsuit that two contracted insurance adjusters filed against it on behalf of the government in 2006 should be dismissed because their attorney, who is no longer on the case, violated a court-ordered seal when he leaked case evidence to three media outlets.
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Political scientist and former John McCain campaign staffer Dan Schnur makes the case that Harris was a casualty between two camps: the adjusters -- Biden and Buttigieg -- looking to return to the incremental change of the Obama era, and the revolutionaries -- Sanders and Warren -- who want sweeping change.
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It would understate things to say that an emotional transfer kicked in when I put on the sleek two-button suit, whose details — pick-stitched lapels; deep double vents; waist adjusters (to eliminate a belt's bisecting ugliness); a superfluous yet appealingly anachronistic ticket pocket — contributed to the spell.
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Saccone took the stage briefly before Trump did, and his people were circulating in the hangar: normal-looking suburban Republican operatives and volunteers of the sort who are still jarring to see attached to the Trump roadshow, like insurance-claims adjusters piled into the bed of a monster truck.
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Once you're to a place of safety, here's how to start navigating the claims process: Insurance adjusters can't get in until the flood waters have receded, Worters said, but it helps to pre-emptively reach out and let your agents know your home and vehicle have sustained storm damage.
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As Cullen Murphy admits in his warm and graceful memoir, "Cartoon County," comics creators have long been among the most dimly perceived of celebrities, and when they venture out into society, they are usually sized up as dentists or insurance adjusters long before the awful truth comes tumbling out.
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The game is out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. While every player rating is based on more than 50 different attributes, the game's ratings adjusters said that quarterbacks take the most time to judge properly because they have eight extra stats that are exclusive to their position.
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This boutique design property, which opened in March after an exhaustive two-year collaborative process with local artists, designers and textile makers, reincarnates a century-old maternity hospital (predating the formal establishment of the city) which over time became a bank, and then an office building housing tax crunchers and insurance adjusters.
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Policyholders will have to navigate a range of issues, including dealing with insurance adjusters to determine the amount of loss and how much of it is covered, as well as contending with the possibility of an extended time without their home or business, all while recovering from the trauma of living through a monster storm.
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The private company that received a separate $2000 million contract to manage the overall Tu Hogar Renace program, Adjusters International, was itself run by a former senior FEMA official, Daniel A. Craig, who worked at the agency during the Bush administration and was the Trump administration's nominee to be deputy director of FEMA last year.
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Acting CFPB Director Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE decided against suing Kansas-based National Credit Adjusters (NCA), a company that collects debt from high-interest loans issued on tribal land, according to Reuters.
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"As the days continue, we'll be able to start to get the number of claims being submitted, get adjusters out in the field when it's safe, and when it's safe for policyholders to be in their homes," said David Maurstad, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation and the chief executive of the NFIP.
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But all of them are, broadly speaking, places where — without any unsustainable burden on the national economy — the cost of health care per capita is far lower than it is here and yet coverage is universal, where life spans are longer, where working people are not made destitute by serious illnesses, where a choice between food or pharmaceuticals need never be made, where the poor cannot be denied treatments by insurance adjusters, where pre-existing health conditions could never be denied coverage, where most people have far more savings and much lower levels of debt than is the case here, where very few families live only a paycheck away from total poverty, where wages generally keep pace with inflation, where every worker has decent vacation time each year, where suicide and opioid addiction are not the default lifestyle of the working poor, where homelessness is exceedingly rare, where retirement care is humane and comprehensive and where the schools are immeasurably better than ours are.
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