Docs Needed for Advance
Key Players
Catastrophic Events
Common Mistakes
Claim Process
100

Legal Document that requires a witnessed signature

What’s a proof of loss?

100

Leads the Insured’s claim recovery team

Who is the insurance/risk/claims executive?

100

Maximum sustained winds for a Category 1 Hurricane 

What is 74 mph / 119 Km/h?

100

Advising of a fire loss 6-9 months after it has occurred

What is a reporting delay?

100

The first 30-45 days after a loss

When should an insured present a preliminary loss estimate to their insurance carrier?

200

Receipts, invoices, evidence of expense

What would evidence expenses incurred?

200

Can provide comments regarding policy placement and provisions

Who is an insurance broker?

200

Direction a cyclone spins

What is clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere?

200

Completing repairs weeks and months after the event because decisions on recovery could not be made 

What is not acting with due diligence?

200

Develop a claim summary 

What is the method to consider all potential avenues of recovery?

300

Quotes, Estimates, Contracts to complete

What would evidence expenses to be incurred?

300

Provides advice on causation, repair, and estimates to complete

Who is an equipment, construction or industry consultant? 

300

Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean

What is the most active earthquake zone in the world?

300

Gathering documentation but not submitting it

What is not filing a claim/not filing a complete claim? 

300

Providing complete information and documentation pertaining to a claim in orderly fashion with a summary detailing the loss

How to present a complete claim package and maximize the opportunity to recover

400

P&Ls, budgets and/or any relevant historical financial data

What financial documentation would help evidence a business interruption claim?

400

Hired to provide financial assistance with property damage and/or business interruption loss

Who is a Claims preparation consultant? 

400

Indonesia

What country has the most earthquakes in the world?

400

Sending a pile of invoices, receipts, estimates

What is failing to organize your claim?

400

Binding Arbitration, mediation, litigation 

What are common dispute resolution alternatives allowed in insurance policies?

500

Preliminary Loss Estimate

What is a common tool used to request the first advance?

500

Issues the final report to the insurance carriers for payments and/or settlement

Who is the insurance adjustor?
500

2011 earthquake and tsunami near Sendai, Japan  


What is the costliest global catastrophe in recent history? - $235 B/Worldbank

500

Not talking with your broker, independent insurance provider, or claims consultant

What is not seeking advice from a professional in the industry?

500
Settlement
What is the final stage in the claim process?