Final Thursday, I posted Residents Property Insurance coverage Workers and Distributors Ought to Learn this Weblog Due to Systemic Wrongful Claims Dealing with, stating partially:

Our legislation agency had simply obtained a letter from Residents Property Insurance coverage, the place the letter date was roughly 60 days earlier than the envelope containing the letter was despatched. Public adjuster George Quintero of Vanguard Public Adjusters was complaining about quite a few letters from Residents Property Insurance coverage, which had been severely backdated. I’ve hooked up as a footnote some redacted letters that Quintero supplied.

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My guess is that this has occurred tons of if not hundreds of instances—I can’t think about that the follow of backdating letters, most likely to cover proof of claims delay and inactivity, is remoted. I ponder if the claims division will report back to the Residents Board of Administrators about this and different issues being complained about by their policyholders on the subsequent Residents Board assembly.

So, my query to readers of this weblog is whether or not you suppose a Residents Property Insurance coverage press launch issued the very subsequent day following the put up was a coincidence or made in response to this weblog. The Residents Press Launch acknowledged: 

As we speak, Residents Property Insurance coverage Company started notifying policyholders and brokers of potential delays in policyholder claims-related communications because of processing delays attributable to its contracted vendor, Exela Enterprise Options, Inc. Residents claims employees has additionally been alerted to those challenges and stand prepared to help policyholders.

Policyholders is not going to be adversely impacted by the mailing failures of the seller, and deadlines that will have handed can be revisited and prolonged by Residents the place applicable.

Any policyholder who believes they’ve been impacted by delays ought to contact their agent, name Residents at 866.411.2742 to succeed in their assigned adjuster or submit a request through Contact Us on Residents’ web site. Policyholders can even submit further claims documentation via the Residents web site.

To deal with the backlog attributable to the seller’s failures, Residents is growing output from distributors and hiring a further third-party vendor on an emergency foundation to course of the backlog. All impacted Residents claims paperwork have been despatched and your entire backlog for all different policyholder paperwork as described above can be eradicated by mid-April.

Residents stays dedicated to shortly resolving any issues that will have impacted our policyholders.

Regardless, it’s refreshing to see an insurance coverage firm difficulty a public assertion that it made an enormous mistake in its claims dealing with. Each enterprise entity may have some embarrassing mistake happen in some unspecified time in the future in time. Hundreds of policyholders not receiving written communications for 2 months following a serious disaster will lead to many complaints and annoyed clients. Stopping these actions, making up for them, after which stopping them from occurring once more is all that any claims administration can do as soon as the issue is found. On this case, discovering the rationale why the issue was not mounted sooner is one other step towards higher claims administration.

As a footnote, the seller whom Residents Property Insurance coverage blames these claims delay upon printed a white paper, 3 Issues Your Claims Course of Ought to Do… And The best way to Get There, which states partially:

It’s a truism: ‘In case you are within the insurance coverage enterprise, you might be within the claims processing enterprise.’ The promise to pay on a buyer’s declare of harm is what property and casualty corporations essentially promote. After the insurance policies are written and the premiums are collected, all the pieces else revolves round processing claims—as cleanly and effectively as potential.

Amen. 

An Afternoon Thought

Errors are at all times forgivable, if one has the braveness to confess them.

—Bruce Lee