While hurricane season won’t officially begin until Monday, June 1st, the first Tropical Depression of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season has already formed. Located about 225 east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, “Tropical Depression One” doesn’t appear to threaten land although it does appear poised to become a named storm (Ana) by Friday.  Read more… [...]

Quick scheduling update here for summer Texas adjuster licensing courses. We’ve added dates for our 3 day, TDI approved Texas adjuster prelicensing course in both Houston and Chicago.  These locations join Dallas and New Orleans on our regular schedule.  To view the our entire early summer schedule and register online, please visit our Texas Adjuster [...]

Mastering Xactimate is one of the primary challenges confronting incoming field adjusters handling residential and light commercial claims.  Unfortunately, it is too often the case that when new adjusters fail in the field it is due to inadequacies in utilization of this program.  Robust and sophisticated, Xactimate is not immediately intuitive and is best retained [...]

Tornadoes, hurricanes, and micro-bursts are all more or less familiar terms to us in the storm lexicon.  But would you believe that there is a terrifying behemoth of a storm – a storm that seems like the product of a child’s nightmare – that happened just recently?  Its called a derecho. Derecho, taken from Spanish [...]