{"id":8123,"date":"2010-09-04T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/propertyinsurancecoveragelaw\/2010\/09\/04\/membership-in-professional-organizations-helps-a-small-public-adjusting-firm-achieve-a-big-result\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:10:14","slug":"membership-in-professional-organizations-helps-a-small-public-adjusting-firm-achieve-a-big-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/blog\/membership-in-professional-organizations-helps-a-small-public-adjusting-firm-achieve-a-big-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership in Professional Organizations Helps a Small Public Adjusting Firm Achieve a Big Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the true spirit of Labor Day, I hope all of you take time to reflect on your work and still find time to relax. For today&rsquo;s blog, I encourage you to take a look at the article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napia.com\/news\/documents\/BulletinSummer2010final.pdf\">Small Public Adjusting Firm&mdash;Big Results<\/a>. It is an inspiring story of one public adjuster who became a public adjuster after having built &ldquo;his world around serving insurers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsuranceadjuster.net\/index.php?pageID=29\">Clay Morrison<\/a> is a public insurance adjuster who, in a former life, owned a restoration company. His largest customer was State Farm. Clay is now the president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsuranceadjuster.net\/index.php?pageID=30\">Morrison &amp; Morrison, Inc<\/a>. His public adjusting office is based out of League City, Texas and similar, to many public adjusters, the business includes family&mdash;the &ldquo;other&rdquo; Morrison is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinsuranceadjuster.net\/index.php?pageID=7\">Clay&rsquo;s wife, Ruth<\/a>, a Texas attorney and corporate counsel for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison decided to become a public insurance adjuster when he was &ldquo;urged&rdquo; by one large insurance company to go against his ethical standards and change the way business was done. Morrison&rsquo;s article, published in the NAPIA Summer Bulletin, details the closed door meeting he was invited into with an upper level claims manager who made a request for Morrison to help State Farm.<\/p>\n<p>The request:<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;We refer a lot of restoration business to you, and we need your help in rectifying the consumer&rsquo;s entitlement mentality.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morrison declined State Farm&rsquo;s request, but his very successful restoration business was quickly out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Morrison is a public insurance adjuster, member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napia.com\/index.asp\">NAPIA<\/a> board, Secretary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mytapia.org\/\">Texas Association of Public Insurance Adjusters<\/a> (TAPIA), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fapia.net\/\">FAPIA<\/a> member, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windnetwork.com\/pg.asp?view=True&amp;idcategory=172\">Windstorm Network<\/a> certified umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison explains that even as a small operator of his own public adjusting firm, he found it very important and beneficial to be a member of professional educational programs. Morrison acknowledges the expense of being active in multiple associations, but explains his two reasons for going the extra mile and spending the extra dollar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Number 1: &ldquo;If you want to be successful in a field, you must associate yourself with people who are most successful in that field.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Number 2: &ldquo;If you endeavor to do something, you should strive to be the best.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Two valuable points for all of us to consider as we enjoy this holiday weekend and our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the true spirit of Labor Day, I hope all of you take time to reflect on your work and still find time to relax. For today&rsquo;s blog, I encourage you to take a look at the article, Small Public Adjusting Firm&mdash;Big Results. It is an inspiring story of one public adjuster who became a&nbsp;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85,4,86,107,132],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-adjusters","tag-fapia","tag-insurance","tag-napia","tag-tapia","tag-windstorm-insurance-network"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Membership in Professional Organizations Helps a Small Public Adjusting Firm Achieve a Big Result | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 4, 2010 In the true spirit of Labor Day, I hope all of you take time to reflect on your work and still find time to relax. 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