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Louisiana Hunts For Insurance As Audit Fishes Around Citizens Insurance

If there was ever any doubt about both the incompetence and the arrogance in the running of Citizens Property Insurance Company, all you have to do is review the latest Legislative Audit report made public this week. The Legislative Auditor, after a lengthy review, concluded that a number of state officials with oversight over Citizens may have broken the law by taking hunting and fishing trips paid for by the state run insurer of last resort. Could this be the final straw that causes a complete rebuilding of this bungled company that, through outright negligence, has a cost to taxpayers in Louisiana of over $1 billion?


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0 comments | Posted by US Public Adjusters on 01/18/2009 at 8:36 AM | Categories: FLORIDA NEWS -

USPA hires claims manager Matthew Bagdanovich

R. MATTHEW BAGDANOVICH

 

 

Florida All Lines Public Adjuster, License #: A011148

FEMA National Flood Insurance Program Certification #: 51795

Texas Casualty Adjuster License (passed exam), Property License (temp)

Admitted California All Lines Adjuster

 

Mother tongue English, also reads and speaks Spanish

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

 

USPA LLC

United States Public Adjusters

2835 Hollywood Boulevard

2nd Floor

Hollywood, Florida 33020

Public Adjuster &

Executive Operations Manager

October 2008 – Present

 

Operations Manager of USPA.  Responsibility for claims operations and staff as well as personal claims handling on large or complex losses

 

Arango, Bagdanovich & Ospina

ABO Claims LLC

300 Three Island Drive, No. 101

Hallandale, Florida  33009

Public Adjuster &

Managing Member   2 June 2006 – October 2008

 

Manager of ABO.  Responsibility for all operations and staff as well as personal claims handling on large or complex losses

 

Crawford Technical Services Inc.

14411 Commerce Way, Suite 440

Miami Lakes, Florida  33016

Executive General Adjuster – State of Florida

September 2004 – June 2006

 

EGA for Florida, responsible for large/complex loss adjusting as well as branch claims support. 

Crawford México S.A. de C.V.

Torcuato Tasso No. 245 Piso 3

Col. Chapultepec Morales, México, D.F. 11570

Director General – Mexico Operations   2 July 2001 – 8 September 2004

 

Country Manager for Crawford and Company in México.  Responsibility for 8 branch office operations, 103 staff as well as personal claims handling on large or complex losses (up to U.S. $ 130,000,000 on local Mexico business).

 

Produced revenue growth from U.S. $650,000 p.a. in 2001 to U.S. $ 2,600,000 p.a. in 2003

 

Established first Graduate level education program for Adjusters in México in coordination with the Universidad Marista in México City.

 

Crawford & Company

1 Lime Street, Lloyd’s Ste. 828

London, EC3M 7DQ

The United Kingdom

September 1999 – June 2001

 

Senior Adjuster, London Latin America, responsible for file handling and supervision of staff adjusters in service territory México to Argentina, 90% of work has been on facultative reinsurance policy.    In addition to primary responsibility for SIU investigations in Latin America other Lines handled are:

 

            Bankers Blanket Bond                                    Jewelers Block Security Survey

            Cash In Transit                                                Infidelity – Commercial Crime

            Products Liability                                           Premises Liability

            Machinery Breakdown & Business Interruption

            Machinery Breakdown Energy                       Marine Cargo

            Cargo Fraud                                                    CAR/EAR

            Business Interruption, Fire.                             Entertainment & Entertainment Fraud

            Pleasure Craft            

 

Crawford-THG México, S.A. de C.V.

Ejercito Nacional 728, Piso 4

Colonia Polanco

Distrito Federal, México  CP 11560

June 1995 – August 1999

 

Claims Director, responsible for file handling and supervision of staff adjusters in service territory México to Panama.

 

Crawford & Company USA

Florida, Texas, California

General Adjuster, Property, CAT Services

 

Performance Claims Service, Inc.

3725 Hollywood Boulevard, # 158

Hollywood, Florida  33021

Area Supervisor  (Andrew Cleanup)

 

Florida Insurance Guaranty Association

2333 Brickell Avenue

Miami, Florida  33129

Examiner/Mediation Representative

Large Loss Unit, Commercial Loss Unit, Mediation Unit

 

Lindsey Morden Claims Service, Inc.

701 East Commercial Boulevard

Fort Lauderdale, Florida  33334

Branch Manager

 

Linder-Smith Adjusters

Jacksonville, Florida

Adjuster

 

CAT DUTY:

 

            Hurricane Ike  -  Houston / Galveston Texas  2008 - 2009

            Hurricane Wilma - South Florida,  October 2005

            Hurricane Rita - Lake Charles, Louisiana  2005

            Hurricane Katrina - St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, Gulfport Mississippi  2005

            Hurricane Charley - Southwest Florida August 2004

            Hurricane Frances - Southeast Florida September 2004

            Hurricane Jeanne - Southeast Florida September 2004

            Hurricane Isadore, Mérida México 2002

            Hurricane Kenna, Puerto Vallarta, México 2002

Hurricane Mitch,  Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador  1998 / 1999

            Los Angeles

0 comments | Posted by US Public Adjusters on 01/01/2009 at 11:26 AM | Categories: FLORIDA NEWS -