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Paid Why loss adjusters are key to claims service excellence

September 1, 2023 Gloria Cilliers

In a post-pandemic hard market, where economic uncertainty mounts and severe weather losses continue to soar, the value of fast, efficient claims service has never been more important. “The frequency and ferocity of severe weather events will continue to increase

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How COVID changed claims adjusters

March 12, 2021 by Adam Malik

Although the claims adjusting profession has undergone a lot of change over the last decade, last year was unlike any other, CRU Group executive vice president Skip McHardy said during a recent web conference. In particular, COVID-19 highlighted the need

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Adjusting Calgary’s hailstorm: The rationale for bringing in U.S. Cat adjusters

August 28, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

During the hail storm this past June that damaged tens of thousands of Alberta homes, adjusting firm CRU Group struggled to find enough qualified independent catastrophe adjusters in Canada, and wound up resorting to bringing in people from the United

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Full speed ahead for the Catastrophe Response Unit

June 19, 2020 by CRU Adjusters

TORONTO, ON, JUNE 19, 2020/insPRESS/ – CRU GROUP’s CAT team was welcomed back to assist with the severe storm that hit Calgary over the weekend. The storm caused catastrophic damage with both hail and flooding and the CRU GROUP CAT

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How the pandemic affects this claims adjuster’s property inspections

June 10, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Despite the unprecedented closures and precautions arising from the ongoing pandemic, claims adjusters continue to inspect properties affected by disasters. “With exterior damages, social distancing has done nothing to affect [claims investigations] other than requiring us to stay a safe

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CRU GROUP honoured to assist with Fort McMurray devastation

May 5, 2020 by CRU Adjusters

TORONTO, ON, MAY 5, 2020/insPRESS/ –  Unlike the 2016 wildfire, Fort McMurray residents and business owners only needed to evacuate for one week before returning to their properties after the recent flood. Assessing the damages and working through the necessary