How Insurance Companies Settle Cases
- Publisher:
- James Publishing
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-01
- Authors:
- David Frangiamore
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58012-263-4
Description:
Knowing how insurance companies operate can help you obtain fair settlements faster. By learning what counts with the home office and what doesn’t, you can present your case in its best light with minimum wasted effort, and make both you and your case stand out. How Insurance Companies Settle Cases is a behind-closed-doors look at how insurance cases are valued, what the adjuster needs to settle your case, and how to keep your case moving. Scope runs from estimating bodily injury damages and investigating coverage to claims denials and action letter outlines
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Preface
- About the author
- Introduction
- Introduction to the claims game
- The fundamentals
- Creating the claims file
- Investigating coverage
- Researching opposing insurance defense counsel
- The factual investigation
- How to check the financial health of defendant's insurer
- Using insurance consultants and experts
- Settlement negotiations and compromises
- How to succeed at settlement conferences
- Common negotiating mistakes
- Techniques not found in claims manuals
- Claim complaints: the art of being a squeaky wheel
- Claims denials
- Claim evaluation software
- Action letter outlines
- Releases, covenants and settlement agreements
- How to estimate bodily injury settlements
- Underinsured motorist coverage
- How to take a claims representative's deposition
- Bad faith-bad news
- Extraordinary bad faith cases
- Common claim myths
- Settling the $5,000 to $75,000 bodily injury claim
- Uninsured motorist claims
- The claims department and the claims manual
- Impact of covid-19 on insurance claim handling issues
- Index