The largest public adjuster conferences are with the Florida Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (FAPIA). Nancy Dominguez is the Executive Director pictured with me at this past weekend’s conference. Two major themes resonated at the conference—insurance protection gaps and forgotten catastrophe-victim policyholders.
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This Friday, October 11 at 12:30 p.m. EST, Holly Soffer, who is the general counsel of the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (AAPIA), and I will co-host a free live webinar on the subject of coverage gaps and what can be done to stop this problem. Rutgers insurance law professor Jay Feinman, author of, Delay, Deny, Defend – Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims And What You Can Do About It, will have a guest video appearance on the topic.
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Rutgers Law Professor Jay Feinman has written an excellent paper regarding insurance protection gaps (of which insurance gaps are a subset) involving residential structures: The Protection Gap in Homeowners Insurance: An Introduction. I recently mentioned this emerging issue in, Coverage Gaps Plague Policyholders! Merlin Law Group and AAPIA Host Webinar Explaining What Is Being Done To Fight This Problem.
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Holly Soffer is General Counsel to the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (AAPIA). Strangely enough, we met and started a dialogue about Insurance Coverage Gaps at a half-day leadership conference hosted by the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA).
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Public adjuster Guy Cohen and I discussed various issues of property insurance and adjustment at a recent lunch. He raised a very serious topic of coverage gaps being created in the small print of property insurance policies which Florida insurance regulators are allowing to be sold. He thinks that these coverage gaps are the most serious issues facing insurance consumers. He is not alone.
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How much should public adjusters charge? How much is too much? This was a question I was asking myself after last night’s Road to Recovery workshop which I posted about in Superstorm Sandy Insurance Questions? Roadmap to Recovery Workshops Provide Answers.
AAPIA’s lobbying efforts in the Pennsylvania Legislature have been successful. As I mentioned a week ago in AAPIA Defends Rights of Public Insurance Adjusters in Pennsylvania Legislature, AAPIA was lobbying against a proposed amendment that would make certain instances of neglect or incompetence a third degree felony. A new version of the amendment
The American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (AAPIA) testified and presented an amendment to a proposed bill before the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee yesterday. The bill was tabled to consider the proposed amendment. Gene Veno President of AAPIA made the presentation before the committee and reported that he:
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