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Last Post 01/27/2010 11:32 AM by Ray Hall

Chances of Deployment

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virgo39

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01/26/2010 9:51 PM
Now that I have become SF certified and licensed, companies seem to be willing to put you on their roster. But......what happens next? Do they put everyone that applies on their roster? How do you increase your chance of actually getting deployed?

Ray Hall

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01/27/2010 7:46 AM
WOW waiting on weather. It takes a large storm before the people on the top of the list are called and so forth.

JimGary

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01/27/2010 8:41 AM
Posted By virgo39 on 26 Jan 2010 09:51 PM Do they put everyone that applies on their roster? Yes. They build their rosters so they can report to the carrier "We have X,000 certified adjusters ready to work". They have a core crew that will be called for Hail & Wind, but the bulk will be waiting for the `big one`. How do you increase your chance of actually getting deployed? Get on many rosters. There is always a small vendor who will need someone. Prove yourself in the field. If your just starting out in the field, look back at the posts and read about how many experienced long time adjusters had a slow year. Last year SF had one of its busiest claims years sans a hurricane. Stands to reason that the other had the same. Without a hurricane the need adjusters is about 30% of avilable adjusters. If you took a class on the promise of deployment, think of this. Why a vendor deploy you based on a class and certification in lew of an adjuster who is proven in the field and has experience with the carrier and vendor. JWG I know the voices aren't real, but sometimes they're right!

Ray Hall

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01/27/2010 9:00 AM
This seems to be the rule of something. You must work hail storms to survive in the cat. business as Jim said above. I know it was true in my case that if I was not working on Easter, memorial day, July 4th and labor day I was hurting big time. September will help some new people survive another year if a big one hits. I have help train( not enough) about 70 people (for free) and less than 10 are still in the biz. I have no doubt if I charged them $1,000 upward the outcome would not be any different.That's the reason I have not opened a ssoping boot camp.

stormcrow

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01/27/2010 9:16 AM
You are vendor. You have a list of adjusters. Some have 30 years, some have 20 years, many with 10 years, lots with 5 years, a large group with only a few storms and then you have guys who are trained (in varying degrees) by the seemingly endless list of schools; but storm virgins. You have a few experienced adjusters you only use in a big event because they are high maintainence. Now you pay everyone on the same pay scale. You get a request for 50 adjusters for a hail storm. Do you start at the virgin end of the list or the experienced end of the list? Don't give up your day job until the big one hits. Another thought. I see lots of posts about daily claims. Why would any examiner assign an adjuster who has done only cat work to look after a fire or a breakin? I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

ranger

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01/27/2010 10:49 AM
My experience is with State Farm and I have worked three hurricanes for them. The State Farm Catastrophe Manager wants the vendor to send the adjusters that can close a lot of clams that do not have to be corrected. I completed my Katrina assignments and I was then sent to Florida to work Wilma claims and I had been gone from home for three months. I asked the SF Catastrophe Manager in the Florida office if I could go home for five days and I was told that I could not leave as until the claims were all completed the SF Catastrophe Manager could not go home. The SF Catastrophe Manager told me she wanted to go home more than anyone in the office. What this means is no SF Catastrophe Manager wants the vendor to send them an unproven and unseasoned adjuster. Without a company background is all types of claims your chance of receiving daily assignments are nil. Ther are a lot of vendors that will put you on their roster and your chances of being called are not good without a major hurricane. I do not know what your occupation is now and I would advise you to stay with it. I worked Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and I made a decent amount of commissions. In 2005 I worked Katrina and Wilma and made a fantastic amount. Then it was not until 2008 that Ike hit and I received 83 asssignments and it was over and I made a small amount of commissions in comparison to past storms. There was no hurricane assignments in 2009 and who knows how long it will be before the next one.

JimGary

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01/27/2010 10:58 AM
Posted By stormcrow on 27 Jan 2010 09:16 AM I see lots of posts about daily claims. Why would any examiner assign an adjuster who has done only cat work to look after a fire or a breakin? Exactly, Most folks do not realize that day claims are very seldom roof measurements and cieling stains. Day claims will encompass every imanagible twist on every paragraph of the policy. You will do liability situations, property damage situations, sometimes damage cannot even be seen, stuff that exactimate cannot even comprehend much less have in its database. I know the voices aren't real, but sometimes they're right!

Ray Hall

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01/27/2010 11:32 AM
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