Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part series. Future installments will appear in the September and October issues of Claims.
When the editor suggested a column on adjuster licensing, all sorts of ideas began to formulate, especially with hurricane season about to reach its prime. Hundreds of adjusters will be scattering around the country handling claims, and wondering if their insurance adjuster's license will be sufficient.
The Iconoclast has addressed this topic many times in the past. In one of my first articles in the September 1975 issue of The Claimsman entitled, "Professionalism and the Claimsman," (published by the South Florida Claims Association) the concept of iconoclasm was first explained. Iconoclasts break images. The image this iconoclast intended to break was that insurance claim adjusting was a true profession; after all, adjusters were licensed to practice their art, weren't they? Though this statement may garner a few nasty letters to the editor, that fact remains true. Adjusting is not a true profession, although it can be a professional vocation.
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