Market Insights

Although the events that trigger winter claims take place during the winter months, most insurance companies deal with them throughout the year.

Appraisal is a tool widely-used to settle disputes involving the value of a loss, and it has gained popularity over the past decade as a relatively quick, supposedly inexpensive, and substantially final method of determining damages.

One does not hear much about a hidden loss of Katrina.

This is not the article we originally envisioned writing when the editors and publisher of Claims convened for our editorial calendar planning session six months ago.

Editors note: In light of the special session on insurance, which is expected to consider the Governor's Property and Casualty Insurance Reform Committee, a group of newly elected House Democrats

"Awesome, baby!" If he were Dick Vitale, that's how Paul Peeples, FAIA's vice president of information and technology, might describe the association's new Catastrophe Relief Vehicle (CRV). But