Florida Public Adjusters: One for The Good Guys

Local Miami Insurance Claims Adjuster and friend of the biz Florida Adjusting Services Team (who can be reached at http://www.fastclaim.net/) issued an interesting release this weekend. To view the statement in its entirety, take a look at http://www.prlog.org/10490786-hiring-public-adjusters-makes-dollars-and-sense.html.

Basically, it seems that insurance lobbyists got a Florida legislator to present a bill making it illegal for adjusters to contact someone for thirty days after a loss. The bill failed, but the state did instruct the Office of Public Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to research claims adjuster's effects on consumers.
Expected to be adjuster-negative, the report was anything but. According to the state researchers, public insurance adjusters, on average, obtain 547% higher settlements than policy holders who present claims and work directly with the insurance company. Sounds good to me!

Working with F.A.S.T. Claim in the past, I have always been impressed with the role Miami public insurance adjusters play in the time after a loss. From advocating for the public in the wake of serious ethical issues by insurance companies after Katrina, to seeing their day-to-day clients who simply are getting jerked around by the insurance companies, I have always been impressed with the integrity, ability, and hard work-ethic found in their team. Next time disaster strikes and the insurance company doesn't want to pony up definitely give them a call.

Best,
RP