adjuster
Americannoun
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adjusters
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a person or thing that adjusts.
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an insurance company representative who investigates claims and makes settlement recommendations based on the estimate of the damages and the company's liability.
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After repeated requests, Acme sent a second adjuster.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nobody wants to wrangle with an insurance adjuster after his home burns down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Dominick Perrotta, an insurance adjuster who cared for his dying mom, repeated this mantra every time a negative thought popped into his head: “This is not helpful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Santiago, a 35-year-old insurance claims adjuster and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against D.R.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
The ham-fisted Romans had almost ruined the tension adjuster, but Leo pulled a set of watchmaker’s tools from his belt and did some final calibrations.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Without seeing the adjusters’ reports, it’s impossible to know what happened, and not being a roof man myself, I don’t think I’d give you a better appraisal than the loss adjusters did.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
It often blamed problems on individual adjusters and denied systemic issues with its claims handling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
By the 1980s, the Arizona Republic’s classified pages were stuffed with ads for jobs like insurance-claims adjusters, customer-service supervisors and associate auditors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
The insurer also reassigned claims adjusters repeatedly, creating what survivors described as “adjuster roulette,” according to officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
"Can they use the attitude adjusters to slow down?"
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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