Please join the Professional Public Adjusters Association of New Jersey (PPAANJ) at its Fall Meeting on November 15, 2017, at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, New Jersey. Continuing Education credits will be provided for New Jersey, New York & Pennsylvania. PPAANJ is pleased to announce that Mr. Joseph A. McDougal, Manager Licensing and … 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
A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging the free speech rights of solicitation by contractors and public adjusters.1 We have discussed this topic before in Public Adjusters Win Free Speech Rights and Ability to Promptly Help Policyholders, and History Repeats Itself When Public Adjusters Win Free Speech Rights.… Continue Reading
Following up on my prior blog post, Assignment of Benefits – Blog Series, Part 12: Rhode Island, I wanted to take the opportunity to remind our readers that the First-Party Claims Conference is next month in Warwick, Rhode Island!… Continue Reading
The Rocky Mountain Association of Public Insurance Adjusters’ Summer Meeting and Seminar (RMAPIA) is scheduled for this Friday at the Embassy Suites in downtown Denver. RMAPIA has applied for continuing education credits for this event in each of the RMAPIA states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.… Continue Reading
I discussed the Lon Smith Roofing class action case against a contractor accused of practicing public adjusting in, Unauthorized Practice of Public Adjusting and the Lon Smith Roofing Case Should Scare Contractors and Roofers with Contingent Contracts. An appellate court reaffirmed the dangers contractors face when negotiating claims and benefits with insurance companies and contracting … Continue Reading
Florida law is significantly more specific about who may work on, aid in, or prepare a claim for a policyholder. Many insurance restoration contractors, all insurance consultants, and all those non-licensed third parties who help contractors, policyholders and public adjusters with insurance claims should get ready for a new way of doing business when a … 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
The Professional Public Adjusters Association (PPAANJ) held its Spring meeting on May 11, 2017, at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, New Jersey. Chip Merlin recently wrote about the meeting and its highlights. In addition to the great speakers, the association elected two new trustees.… Continue Reading
Now is the time to make plans and register to attend the Georgia Association of Public Insurance Adjusters’ 2017 Spring Conference. The GAPIA conference will be held on May 2, 2017, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. You can register for the conference by clicking here.… Continue Reading
Public adjuster and former NAPIA President Scott deLuise went to New Mexico to get a law passed which would specifically license the practice of public adjusting. He took Greg Serio with him. Serio is a former Superintendent of Insurance for New York.… Continue Reading
Calling all anglers and Public Insurance Adjusters! Check out the 25th Anniversary FAPIA Conference that kicks off on Sunday, May 21st with a fun fishing tournament in the Florida Keys!… 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
Insurance company adjusters organize their claims files much better than most public adjusters because insurers have invested in computerized claims file management. It may have been that software costs were too expensive for many public adjusting firms, but this is no longer the case.… 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
At the recent annual FAPIA conference, a dedicated course specific to public adjusters was presented for the five-hour Law and Ethics Update Course. Every Florida public adjuster must take a course of this duration on these topics during their two-year cycle and this course was specific to public insurance adjusters. If you missed it, you … Continue Reading
The Professional Public Adjusters Association (PPAANJ) held its first general meeting on November 3, 2016 at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, New Jersey. The meeting was a great success and was well received by all in attendance.… Continue Reading
Please join the newly formed Professional Public Adjusters Association of New Jersey (PPAANJ) at its first general meeting on Thursday, November 3, 2016, at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, New Jersey. Don’t miss this fun opportunity to network with fellow members of the Public adjusting community. Additionally, attendance will include New Jersey CE … Continue Reading
TAPIA’s Fall 2016 Conference returns this week to San Antonio’s Menger Hotel. All Texas public adjusters should come join in the education, networking, and fun! In addition to all the other informative presentations, Evan Wolfe and I will present “Fresh Perspectives on Claim Preparation/Preparing Files For Litigation Success” on Thursday.… Continue Reading
Chip Merlin and I will be speaking on behalf of the Merlin Law Group at the Fall Georgia Association of Public Insurance Adjusters Meeting on October 4, 2016, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.… Continue Reading
It’s no surprise that insurance companies do not like public adjusters and would rather not have them involved in claims. The Internet is replete with statistics that show how much more carriers end up paying when public adjusters are involved in claims. What is surprising is the lengths carriers will go to in order to … Continue Reading
If you a Florida property owner and have suffered substantial damage to your home or business from Hurricane Hermine, you may be asking yourself: “Should I hire a public insurance adjuster to assist in presenting my claim to the property insurance carrier, or is the claim something I can handle on my own?” This is … Continue Reading
