Every profession has a few secrets hidden in a special place. Where do adjusters keep theirs?

What makes us happy and can adjusters find real happiness?

Many states that require continuing education units (CEUs) for adjusters, whether or not adjusters are required to obtain a license or pass an initial licensing examination, mandate that a certain number of CEUs be on the subject of ethics. In those states, there are usually a number of ways of...

Training teaches how, education teaches why, but neither teach common sense or wisdom.

As discussed last month, there is little standardization among the states regarding adjuster licensing. Twenty-nine states require an exam administered by the insurance department to obtain an adjuster's license, and most states that license either staff or independent adjusters require continuing education (CE), usually 12 to 24 credit hours every...

Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part series. Future installments will appear in the September and October issues of Claims.

No longer bound to a 24/7 workweek, my wife and I managed to avoid the horrible winter of 2014 by being in sunny Florida. But it was not a time for beach and sun we kept busy with classes, reading, studying, concerts (both in the audience and as participants)...

When I was a kid there was a little song, probably left over from the Dust Bowl drought of the 1920s that went, Oh, it ain't gonna rain no more, no more, Oh, it ain't gonna rain no more.