AdjusterTV News for March 2021 | Tornadoes, snow storms, new training, remote work, and more..
Channel: Adjuster TV
Date: 2021-03-28

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Tornadoes, 2 feet of snow in Denver area, and the April forecast in Max's full adjuster weather report..

The Best Claims Solutions, formerly The Best IRS, gets a shiny new re-re-brand..

A hot new Adjuster tool solution from BullyBag drops...

Field Pros Direct has a conference coming up..

New live CCC One training from IA Path...

Alacrity acquires Bridgewater Group and reopens a training center..

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adjustertv.com/nacaSTORM SEASON IS HERE:  BE PREPARED

And speaking of storm season, what is the one thing you can do right now to prepare yourself for the 2021 storm season?

Well, let's talk about this for a minute because if you're not properly prepared for storm season and you can't get on a storm during the summer - or you do get deployed and then get let go or quit the storm because you weren't ready, you're not going to get another chance until March April May of 2022.  Yes, the next year.  Because even though we've had a few active years in a row, and an historic year in 2020, do not expect that to continue.  There is no evidence that - year to year - there are any trends in storm activity.  That doesn't mean that 2021 might not be even worse that 2020.  But don't count on it.  Why?  

Generally speaking, adjusters can expect severe weather in the midwest between about now-ish until late summer, early fall.  The atlantic hurricane season officially starts May 31st, but doesn't really do anything until usually August.  The peak of hurricane season is mid-september and then tapers off and finally ends - officially - in November.  

Working cat property adjusters make their hay on wind and hail.  If a hurricane hits, wonderful!  That's usually just gravy at the end of an already long working storm season for experienced adjusters.  

If you're an experienced adjuster and you're watching this from your hotel room on cat deployment right now, give us a hail yes in the comments.

For the rest of you, what can you do to be in the best position to capitalize on the regular old wind and hail stuff that keeps food on the table for experienced cat adjusters?

If you don't have an adjuster license of any kind right now, then you absolutely must get either your home state if your state where you live licenses adjusters - or your designated home state license.  

So what does that mean?  If you live in a state like Colorado, for example, Colorado doesn't license adjusters at all.  Which means you don't need a license to work claims in Colorado.  However, if you want to work in Texas, then you have to get a Texas adjuster license.  

Okay, so maybe you don't want to work anywhere except for Colorado.  No need to get a license, right?  

No, not right.  The reason why is because IA firms aren't really going to take you seriously if you don't have at the minimum your DHS license.  So if you're in Colorado, then I would recommend picking up your Florida license.  It's a great license to have and it's reciprocal with most other states that also license adjusters.  Reciprocity doesn't mean that you can just get Florida and then work in any other state.

It means that other states like Texas will recognize the stuff you had to do to get your Florida license - including fingerprints, exam, background check, etc.  And that goes for CE as well.  You still have to apply for and pay for those other licenses.  

But why would somebody want to get more than just the one license if they don't want to leave home to work claims?

Well, recently many new opportunities for remote work have popped up, giving adjusters of any experience level the chance to write estimates or do backend work on claims from the comfort of their own homes.  

Which means that you, living in Colorado, could be taking the scope and photos from a claim in Alabama and writing it up and getting paid for it.  

But you can't handle that Alabama claim without an Alabama adjuster license.

So a smart claims professional - which is what you want to be when you get into this business - will get as many licenses as possible as fast as possible.  Every single license you get increases your chances for work.  Straight up.

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