What is GAPIA?
Public Insurance Adjusters work on behalf of the policyholder to ensure that their rights are protected and that they receive full and fair compensation from their insurance carriers in the case of an insured loss.
Typical Claims handled by GAPIA
Public Insurance Adjusters include business and residential property losses such as:
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GAPIA's Public Insurance Adjusters
also help with business related losses such as:
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Board of Directors
President
jennifer@strongclaims.com
Vice President
Martin Shields, PA
martin@claimsfi.com
Treasurer
cathy.p.2924@gmail.com
Secretary
Mathew Mulholland
mathew@listentothisbull.com
Chair
chris@surviveyourclaim.com
Director
remington@lawhuggins.com
Director
david@boohakerlawfirm.com
Terry Freeland, PA
wtfreeland@gmail.com
Director
claims@nickgipsonpa.com
Director
Leia Travis
leia@allypublicadjusting.com
Director
Matthew Hunter
matt@gohpac.com
butler@gapia.org
Articles
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Water Backup is Not Surface Water
Dec 22, 2023 By Chip Merlin INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS Tags: FC&S Bulletin, Flood, National Underwriter Christine G. Barlow, CPCU Executive Editor FC&S What does the insurance industry mean by the term “surface water?” Where does a public adjuster find insurance industry information about a term of art in an insurance policy? There are a number of insurance industry sources that should be regularly used for reference and read by property insurance professionals to keep up on new information. One is the FC&S, which is now part of ALM's PropertyCasaulty360. An article they posted, Water Backup Is Not Surface Water, posed a situation where a carrier was denying a water damage claim where the policy contained a water backup endorsement. The policy stated it would pay for:
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Are Your Roof Claims Being Properly Handled by State Farm in Good Faith? The State Farm Shingle Locator Service (aka RLS)
By Chip Merlin on December 5, 2023 Posted in State Farm Are you a policyholder, insurance restoration contractor, or public adjuster dealing with a roofing claim adjustment involving roofing shingles with State Farm? Have you asked the State Farm adjuster for the process explaining how the adjuster is handling the claim? Why wouldn't State Farm provide and publish the honest methods it uses to adjust these claims with its customers if you asked for them? I say this because I was sent a Shingle Locator Service protocol and critique of the same, which stated the following:
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INSURANCE CLAIM DELAYS DELIVER MASSIVE PROFITS TO INDUSTRY BY SHORTING CUSTOMERS
By Mollie Reilly and Max J. Rosenthal 13/12/2011 10:24pm GMT | Updated December 13, 2011 WASHINGTON -- Unlike many other businesses, the insurance industry is bound by law to act in good faith with its customers. Because of their protective role in the lives of ordinary citizens, insurers have long operated as semi-public trusts. But since the mid-1990s, a new profit-hungry model, combined with weak regulation, has upended that ancient social contract. "Claims has been converted into a money-making process," said Russ Roberts, a New Mexico-based management consultant and former business professor at Northwestern University who has studied the insurance industry's evolution from a service business to a profit-driven machine.
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