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).… Continue Reading
Now is time to register for the National Association of Public Insurance Adjuster Mid-Year Meeting being held in New Orleans from November 30 – December 2, 2017.… Continue Reading
Joey Childress and yours truly will present a seminar of water damage claims at the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters Convention in San Antonio next week. I discussed how public adjusters can register and even get a discount for attending in Are You a Public Adjuster Who Wants to Be Better at Helping Policyholders … Continue Reading
Most public adjusters I know love their job. They want to help policyholders. They want to make certain the insurance policy works the way intended and that otherwise overlooked benefits are paid promptly.… Continue Reading
Enservio’s director of training, Scott Petlewski, wrote an article Establishing Value on Contents Claims: 3 Bad Habits to Break, which demonstrates that proper contents adjustment is hard work. It can be time consuming, expensive from a labor standpoint, and fraught with error.… Continue Reading
Both the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA) and the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (AAPIA) support Maryland’s House Bill 136. For the past six months drafting has been going on to come up with a bill that Gene Veno says will act as a consumer property protection bill.… Continue Reading
The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters will host their Mid-Year Conference in beautiful Palm Beach, Florida. The conference will begin on Thursday, December 8th and conclude mid-day on Saturday, December 10th. Having the National Association host this conference in South Florida is a wonderful opportunity and public insurance adjusters should join NAPIA and network … Continue Reading
The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (“NAPIA”) is holding its Mid-Year Meeting from December 8-10, 2016, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Membership in NAPIA is open to licensed public insurance adjusters, professionals (attorneys, engineers, accountants) and all suppliers to the first-party property insurance claims community.… Continue Reading
Past NAPIA President Harvey Goodman, picked up another well-deserved accolade by his colleagues by being named 2015 NAPIA Man of the Year. I ran a quick legal search on Goodman and found this brief explanation of his qualifications in a Hurricane Katrina expert report:1 Harvey M, Goodman, SPPA, President of GGG/AI, has been assisting the … Continue Reading
The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA) is holding its Mid-Year Meeting close to our office in Scottsdale, Arizona today and Saturday. Preparing for my speech tomorrow, I ran across a fairly recent Arizona court opinion highlighting the quandary insurance company lawyers place themselves and their clients when participating in the adjustment of a … Continue Reading
It is funny how thirty years in a career can seem to go like the snap of your fingers. NAPIA’s 2015 Annual Meeting is being held at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. My first NAPIA meeting was the 1985 Annual Meeting in Carmel, California. I knew few people at that meeting except for Past President … Continue Reading
Next month the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA) will head to Farmington, Pennsylvania for its annual meeting.… Continue Reading
An insurance lobby sponsored blog recently made some controversial claims regarding public adjuster fee caps. Obviously, many lobbying for the insurance claims industry would like to prevent anybody from helping policyholders. One way to do accomplish this would be to prevent policyholders from hiring claims professionals. This was the obvious goal of that insurance industry … Continue Reading
The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters presented its Person of the Year Award to United Policyholder’s Executive Director, Amy Bach. The award was made at the annual meeting last week in San Antonio, Texas.… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters is the oldest public adjusting organization in the United States. Its membership has most of the finest, knowledgeable and experienced insurance claims adjusters representing policyholders in this country. I gave my first speech to this organization in 1985 and ever since then, I have always learned something significant … Continue Reading
Next month, the Alabama legislature will reconvene and has the chance to license public insurance adjusters. Currently, Alabama is one of the few states that does not recognize public adjusters. But after the devastation last year, the value of public insurance adjusters is coming to light.… Continue Reading
Handling a property damage insurance claim can be complex, time consuming and can turn your hair gray. For many, presenting a property damage claim is not something done on a regular basis. When faced with a claim, policyholders in most states have the right to hire a public insurance adjuster.… Continue Reading
Following massive hail damage losses, the Arizona Department of Insurance issued a statement which reiterates a warning I have given time and again: [C]ontractors cannot “negotiate” the settlement of the insurance claim with the insurance company representatives on behalf of the property owner…… Continue Reading
Time flies. It seems like yesterday when Ray Altieri excitedly met me outside the entrance to the December 1992 National Association of Public Adjusters Mid-Year Meeting. Ray is Italian and very passionate about things that matter to him–usually his family, work and the New York Yankees.… Continue Reading
Los Angles will be the location for NAPIA/CAPIA insurance West Coast Seminar. NAPIA, the National Association of Public Adjusters, has teamed up with the California Association of Public Insurance Adjusters to provide this one day seminar to public adjusters on March 23, 2011, at the Marina del Rey Hotel. This seminar promises to be filled … Continue Reading
“Chipper, how have you been?” and “Chipper, we need to get together with Ira and play some golf” were two phrases I recalled when I learned of Bruce Swerling’s death last week. Harvey Goodman was on the other end of a late Friday afternoon phone call concerning a coverage issue, and he told me he just … Continue Reading
In less than one month, the Florida Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (FAPIA) will be kicking off their Winter 2011 Conference at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida. FAPIA has been going strong for over 17 years now and includes over 500 members who are invited to meet twice a year in Florida. The FAPIA … Continue Reading
