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For the past 13 years, Florida property insurers have been comforted knowing that no matter how many severe hurricanes hit the state, they always had a backstop of reinsurance through the Florida

When the National Council on Compensation Insurance recently submitted its annual rate filing calling for a statewide average 16.5 percent rate decrease, it was a shot heard round the world in the

In a nutshell, that's the dilemma facing the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It processed and closed 303,735 claims from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane season, but 3,330 remain open. Can you guess

(The following article is based on Mr. Gajewski's presentation at the Target Markets Program Administrators Association's Mid-Year Meeting, which was held in May in Atlanta, Ga.) The number and variety of

An internationally-recognized commercial loss adjusting firm spent significant amounts of management time, not to mention dollars, in an effort to recruit highly experienced, and highly compensated, senior adjusters.

Sometimes adjusters and appraisers are forced to deal with the frustrations that can stem from working through the collision claim process.