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House Insurance panel hears bill to bar public adjusters from residential claims
Summary
The House Insurance Committee heard proponent and opponent testimony on HB 24-61, which would prohibit public adjusters from negotiating or settling residential and personal-lines insurance claims; proponents said the bill restores pre‑existing law after an Attorney General opinion, while opponents said it would remove consumer choice and urged licensing and regulation instead.
The House Insurance Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 24-61, a measure that would bar public adjusters from negotiating or effectuating settlements for residential and other personal-lines insurance claims and add the word "exclusively" to several definitions to limit licensed public adjusting to commercial lines.
Eileen, who presented the bill to the committee, said the measure ‘‘adds a new section . . . to definitively state that no public adjuster shall negotiate for or effectuate the settlement of any insurance claim for loss or damages arising from residential and personal lines of insurance,’’ and that other edits in the draft conform statutory language to current drafting practice.
Stephen Carrer of the Kansas Department of Insurance told the committee the department had received numerous inquiries about whether public adjusters could handle residential claims and asked the Attorney General for guidance; he…
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