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I would recomend that you contact the Chilian Embassy in Washington, DC. That is if they do not hang up on you at this time.

Most South American Countries are not that big into insurance. While the large commercial structures will be in most cases insured, most residential properties are not. That is just the way it is down here. To have insurance is one thing but to have earthquake coverage will be pretty building specific and not everyone who has insurance will have the coverage. Will be willing to bet that the Lloyd's companies are already contacting their international firms and getting the heavy hitters ready.

Working in a South American country can be more frustrating than dealing with Chicago or Detroit building inspectors. Rules change from one minuet to the next. What was one way yesterday is now 180 degrees the other way today. For us to get our visa where we are was fun. In the capitol city we were told that we needed 8 items to get our national id card and that was after waiting in line for over an hour. Where we are staying, we went with all this stuff and the officers there took 3 of the pieces of id and asked us why we had the unnecessary stuff. In less that 30 min we had our id's and we were on our way. Welcome to South America. They are also very protective of their people. If they feel that they have the bodies to handle the claims, they can make live very hard for any Norte who comes down. You have to have local contacts to get around and help you.

Tim, we have SF and the EQ end., but have a 10% ded.

I have known of two California earthquakes that required temp adjusters in the last 55 years. The one that hit Oakland Cal. on the day the world series game was going on in 1989 and the Northridge earthquake in Jan 1994. When Walter Pilot was alive he credits 1989 as the year they became a "player" as they had adjusters  working Hugo claims in South Carolina and sent some to San Fran-Oakland, Cal

Tommy Measels( Pilot) called me to work flood claims in Houston in 1989  for State Farm, but I stayed with the State Farm Vendor I had worked for before. I still remember his words "If you are going to stay in the catastrophe adjusting field you should be with Pilot. He was right they landed the Allstate work in 1990 and we got a 40 year hail storm in Denver . It was about 80 adjusters with about 5-25 years experience on this storm team

Posted By Ray Hall on 02 Mar 2010 01:53 AM
You don,t know much about international insurance, they only want CPCU, and JD designations.

Ray if you are referencing my post, you are right. I was stating a very satiristic view. Suggesting a three day class to certify me to teach a three day class.

JWG

Posted By Ray Hall on 02 Mar 2010 01:53 AM
You don,t know much about international insurance, they only want CPCU, and JD designations.

Not always the case Ray, Crawford & Company for example has in the past deployed US based Cat Adjusters without those designations to areas in England and Australia to handle storm related claims. I believe Cunningham has also. Crawford also has offices in Chile