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Posted By ryoungblood on 12 Aug 2010 09:24 PM

 

Hello, I am Rob Youngblood, a new adjuster living in Bloomington. I am taking the ClaimSmentor 50 hr Claims Fundamentals class. In class today, Deb, the instructor, mentioned that in Dallas, there is a group of adjusters who meet monthly to do practice claims together and mentor one another. I have been “friending” Minnesota adjusters on the From One Adjuster to Another website to try to network, but the idea of meeting from time to time sounds like it would be mutually beneficial. I am sending this message to all of the 17 ClaimsMentor members who live in the Metro area - or live somewhere I'm not familiar with that might be the Metro area :) as well as my nearby FOATA friends. If you would be interested in getting together with us, let me know. My email is acanthushr@netscape.net. Good luck with your adjusting careerir if you're new! If you're experienced, we could use your help. Hope to see you at one of our meetings if they come about!

Rob Youngblood

Howdy Rob,

I'm part of the "Metro" group Deb was telling you about. Our "metro" extends to East Texas and into Oklahoma. Monthly meetings will be difficult as your group will want some working adjusters. Don't expect or hold your members to strict attendance. Especially after you guys begin to work as adjusters. Just meet when you can, as many as can, and keep in touch with each other by phone and email.

When several of you are working the same storm, toward the end of the deployment, you can meet for dinner. We had a couple of nice dinners in MN a few years ago.

The good news is that every one of our group now has experience as claim adjusters.

Randy Cox

All meetings are very good. Randy has been in the DFW group, probably the founder. I have givin a lot of free hours to new and olod. It,s really hard to get together, but I have done this in Florida and other areas at night while on a storm and it works out very well. Most of this comes weeks after the storm. Networking with OTHER adjusters is always good. Think about National Asso. of Cat Adjusters they have been around for years. USAA use to pick the old pro,s from the book and I have worked many small cats for them ober 20 years ago. Small cats like 1,000 claims and call in 6-8 good adjusters. I think the whole cat. claim department has turned over by now. The large carriers can always use a few heavy hitters to call out with their staff adjusters on these 50-60 cat losses for 5-6 people. THEY JUST HAVE TO KNOW YOU. IF you have a good background, put on your best suit and meet the person in the position to pull the trigger on calling YOU out.