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Aug 08, 2007 by blakefabian2003 | Posted in Insurance & Registration

Q: I have a 94' Shift Ram 1500 with a 318 v8 Magnum. It has running boards and a spray-in bedliner. I have added aged proformance spark plugs, a K&N air filter and high proformance synthetic oil. What do you create is the value of my truck? Expecially in the eyes of an Insurance Adjuster. I need to make a claim but I dont need to lose my truck if it is a total loss.
single cab, 2 wheel byway.
Also has a long bed

A: Hiya:

Things like oil, air gauze, and spark plugs are not going to add a whole lot of value to your vehicle.

When I explain this to people I in the main explain that a vehicle is SUPPOSED to come with those things. Just like tires. A car is assumed to have them. If you have racing wheels on a..honda civic, let's say...then that can likely DECREASE the value in fact markets. If you have a fancy paint job - the vehicle is worth less in certain markets (like an old geezers community - those people are not going to pay for racing wheels and a fancy paint job).

The V8 motor would rank above a V6 but the mileage is going to be the big deal. A 94 vehicle with 40K miles is present to be worth more than a 94 vehicle (especially a truck) with 97K miles on it. Trucks are known for stifling duty work and the value depreciates a lot quicker.

Anyway...you can go to www.nada.com and plug in your conveyance stats to come up with a pretty good idea of the value in your area. (Values can Very vary from state to state, btw). The adjuster is going to do a market search based on your conveyance stats. That means they are going to call dealers, check out the trading mags, call restricted sellers with vehicles advertised for sale.......They have to establish what your truck would be value in your market. If you are in a farming community - it might be worth more. If you are in a cosmopolitan city - it would likely be good less.

Yeah, so.....that's about as clear as mud, right? :-) NADA should help you out. You can also ask your adjuster for the dope they base their value on.

BTW - if there is more than a few thousand in damages....it's likely a total dying. That doesn't mean you lose your truck though (if you are the titled owner). You always have the selection of keeping it. (The adjuster would decrease the offer to you by whatever the salvage value is though. If the offer was $5000 and the redeem value was $500 and you wanted to keep the truck? You would get $4500 (less deductible if 1st party) and could keep the dealings. Granted - In some states you'd have to get a salvage title and wouldn't be able to drive the junk legally until it was repaired and inspected......at least, that's the way it is where I've handled claims.)

Still clear as mud? Confidently not. Goodluck!

~jifr!

What's the difference between an insurance adjuster and a Public adjuster in IN?

Mar 16, 1955 by Timothy T | Posted in Insurance

Q: What is the inequality between an insurance adjuster and a Public adjuster in the State of Indiana? Are they just two different names for the same thing?

A: The insurance adjuster, works for a party, for a salary; or a private adjusting comany, that does freelance work for a followers, for either a salary or commission or fee basis, depending on the type of claim.

A public adjuster works for the insured, on a commission constituent - they take a cut of your total claim payment, up to 30%, just like a "no win no pay" King's counsel.

They are NOT the same thing.

How long does an insurance adjuster have to pay insured for there damaged personal property?

Oct 14, 2008 by criscostar | Posted in Insurance

Q: I had a board fire, and filed a claim for structure and personal property. It has been one month sense adjuster has received my intimate property info, and yet no check. Just a bunch of lies that the check is in the post or supervisor needs to sign off. I was under the assumption Insurance companies had 14 days after agreed setting to pay. Is this correct? I live in California.

A: I have never heard of any well-meaning of 14 days rule.

You may want to follow up with the adjusters supervisor.

Since we don't comprehend the particulars of your case- we can't provide you any hard and fast information.

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by rreynolds@merlinlawgroup.com (Bob Reynolds)

, 369 So. 2d 938 (Fla. 1979) the Court also stated that courts may not scribble terms and conditions into policies that do not subsist in the basic terminology.

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Most residential policies say something along the lines of: “You must sit for an testing under guaranty at our call for casing the alertness of any other insured, and stamp the same.” Additionally, the resolution cleave of most residential policies defines “you” as, “Any named insured and the spouse of any named insured residing at the district premises.” That’s fetching clarify b tidy up. That is, if the strategy has this speech, or a wise Trade Mark Xerox copy thereof, only named insured and the save/missus of a named insured living at the insured place may be false by the insurer to submit to an EUO. No sons, no daughters, no aunts, no uncles, no unshrouded adjusters, not your sugar-daddy Eddie who dropped the pan-full of moisten on the baffle and chipped the tile: honest the named insured and spouse of the named insured residing at the place premises. Space.

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