Claims Dispute Resolution · Orange Beach, Alabama
Disputes end when both parties sign.
More than twenty years in property claims. 260+ attorney-represented files resolved through mediation and direct negotiation. Carriers retain Hale Accord to take over disputed portfolios and return closed files.
D. Hale, Principal — on file
The Record — Register of Resolutions
Read the file before you hand one over.
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Reg 01
260+ attorney-represented files resolved.
Mediation · Direct Negotiation -
Reg 02
200+ claims resolved.
Formal Mediation -
Reg 03
60+ complex claims negotiated with plaintiff law firms.
Direct Negotiation -
Reg 04
Dispute-resolution lead on a 5,000+ claim catastrophe portfolio.
CAT Portfolio -
Reg 05
2,000+ claims directed as Storm Manager, Hurricane Ida.
30 Adjusters · 2021
Schedule A — Services
What carriers refer.
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i.Mediation
Carrier representation in formal mediation, from position through executed settlement.
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ii.Attorney negotiations
Direct engagement with plaintiff firms to resolve represented files without filing.
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iii.Pre-lawsuit resolution
Intervention on disputed files while resolution is still a phone call, not a docket number.
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iv.Appraisal & ADR
Appraisal proceedings and alternative dispute resolution under the policy's own provisions.
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v.Large loss & complex claims
General adjusting on large, layered, or technically contested property losses.
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vi.Catastrophe management
Storm rosters, workflow design, and quality review for surge inventories.
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vii.Commercial claims
Commercial property losses adjusted from first scope through settlement.
Schedule B — Engagement
How an engagement runs.
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Portfolio review
The carrier refers a disputed inventory — one file or several hundred. Each file is reviewed for posture, exposure, and the shortest route to resolution.
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Strategy per file
Every file receives a resolution path — mediation, direct negotiation, or appraisal. No file waits in a queue.
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Resolution & reporting
Files return closed: executed releases, documented reserves, and reporting the carrier's systems accept.
Engagements are contract (1099), per file or per portfolio. Licensed in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Exhibit A — Catastrophe Operations
Ida, Sandy, and five thousand files.
As Storm Manager for Hurricane Ida, Daniel Hale directed a team of thirty adjusters across more than two thousand claims, and led dispute resolution on a catastrophe portfolio exceeding five thousand — attorney-represented inventory included. The flood record runs from Superstorm Sandy reviews through 150+ flood supplements under NFIP.
The practice is built on carrier-side operations: homeowner division builds, workflow design, adjuster training, and fluency in the platforms carriers already run — so an outside specialist works inside the carrier's process from day one.
Schedule C — Licensure & Standing
- Licensed Alabama · Florida · Mississippi · Louisiana
- Flood NFIP — FCN Certified
- Platforms Xactimate · XactContents · Simsol · MS/B Integriclaim
- Practice Hale Group LLC · Orange Beach, Alabama
Execution
Bring the file.
Every file accepted is worked to the same end: both parties signed, file closed.
D. Hale, Principal — on file
Countersignature — [Carrier]