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A Place to Learn Excellence in Claims Handling

Every Insurer is Obligated to Maintain a Professional Claims Staff

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Insurance is a business. It must change if it is to survive. It must rethink the firing of experienced claims staff and reductions in training to save “expense.”

The Excellence in Claims Handling Program

Excellence in claims handling is a program that can help insurers avoid charges of bad faith in both first and third party claims.

An insurer must understand that it cannot adequately fulfill the promises it makes to it insured and the Fair Claims Practices Act which exist in almost every state, when dealing with claimants without excellence in claims handling. An insurer must work intelligently and with vigor to create a professional claims department.

A Proposal to Create Claims Professionals

To avoid claims of bad faith; to avoid punitive damages; to avoid losses; and to make a profit insurers must maintain claim staffs who are dedicated to excellence in claims handling. That means they will make sure every promise made in every policy is satisfied by the:

Insurers who only hire insurance claims professionals.
Insurers who train the claims staff to be insurance claims professionals.
Insurers who require that the claims staff treat every insured with good faith and fair dealing.
Insurers who demand excellence in claims handling from the claims staff.
The insurance industry for the last 25 years has decimated the number of insurance claims professionals for insurers to hire.
If any experienced claims professionals exist in the insurer’s staff, the insurer must cherish and nurture them. If none are available, the insurer has no option but to train its people.
Those who treat all insureds and claimants with good faith and fair dealing and provide excellence in claims handling must be honored with increases in earnings and perquisites.
The insurer must immediately eliminate those who do not provide excellence in claims handling from the claims staff.
What Sources Are Available to Obtain Training?

The Excellence in Claims Handling program includes a series of web-based lectures supported by text materials like my claims books available at amazon.com and over the insurance claims library at my web site at https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/.

The web lectures should be supplemented by meetings between supervisors and claims staff on a regular basis to reinforce the information learned in the lectures.

The Excellence in Claims Handling Program is not enough. In addition, the insurer must institute a regular program of auditing claims files to establish compliance with the subjects studied. There is no quick and easy solution. The training takes time. Learning takes longer. The insurer’s management must support and reinforce the training regularly.

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Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE, now limits his practice to service as an insurance consultant specializing in insurance coverage, insurance claims handling, insurance bad faith and insurance fraud almost equally for insurers and policyholders. He practiced law in California for more than 44 years as an insurance coverage and claims handling lawyer and more than 54 years in the insurance business. He is available at http://www.zalma.com and zalma@zalma.com.

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