What Are Loss Assessors and What Does a Loss Assessor Do?
Also known as a claim adjuster, a assessor of loss is a person who works , primarily on the behalf of an insurance agency , to accurately realise the genuine value of an insurance claim before any, or occasionally before the bulk , the funds being signed off by the insurance underwriter in fulfilment of the claim . Loss assessors spend their days calculating the true , total cost of what has been lost , and in some cases also set out to decide blame for the insured value. This activity is often designed to reduce the insurance business’s liability to fulfilling on the policy and also to minimise the risk of a greater amount of cash being paid than is in reality due to the insured party , or prevent situations in which the insured party ends up actually better off after the claim, rather than just wholly compensated for their loss. Loss assessors are required to be knowledgeable in their remit in order to allow them to fully understand the claim under investigation . Accordingly a loss assessor for a given variety of claim would tend to work in one field – a loss assessor on car accidents might usually only work on car incidents, while a loss assessor specialising in piracy would need to be fully up to speed with the minutiae of seafaring law and customs, and loss assessors who work on catastrophic loss must be experienced in helping policyholders in extreme circumstances track down a roof and the necessary food, clothes and essentials.