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What skills do adjusters need for professional success in 2014? Certainly, technical skills are a must. This includes a working knowledge of law, medicine, construction, insurance policy content and interpretation, and subject-matter expertise specific to the claims they handle. Aside from technical skills, though, successful adjusters need soft skills.

There has been a recent spate of articles in various publications about the Internet of Things or IoT. At first blush, the non-techies eyes glaze over when new and emerging technologies are the topic of conversation. Techies, as we know, have been into the IoT for several years. But to...

In response to an explosion of toxic mold claims at the turn of the century, universal exclusions for mold, fungi and bacteria related losses were introduced faster and on a wider scale than any exclusion in the history of the insurance business. The exclusions for fungi and bacteria are by...

Insurance is stepping up to cover marijuana production, facilities, landlords, dispensaries and even prescribers.

Iceland is monitoring a fissure eruption north of the Bardarbunga volcano as authorities downgraded the threat of a full-blown ash cloud.

Iceland is monitoring a fissure eruption north of the Bardarbunga volcano as authorities downgraded the threat of a full-blown ash cloud.