Insurance Claims Agent Interview Preparation Guide

Work related- I was having this challenge whereby a certain family was having those individuals who were not willing that a postmortem be conducted to their family member, I was suppossed to intervene to deal with this situation. I tried to explain to their elders the importance of the postmortem, I manage to knock some sense into their minds and the postmortem was conducted.

I am still learning the basics a great deal, but understand the need to exist and how it provides answers in need. I chose this industry based on skills that I found being underused in the past and very appealing to exercise.

Well, this would be my first job but if a customer irritated me I wouldn't show it. I would still treat them like everyone else and make sure they leave satisfied with their experience.

Before I trained to enter the insurance industry, I was a customer service representative at a large call center. Our clients included both insurance clients and also some tech industry support for cellular phone contracts and warranty services. Both of those client groups involve a lot of negotiation with customers from a call center’s perspective, and they both taught me how to adjust a customer’s expectations politely, while explaining why it is important that we do so.

My interview was more or less on the floor, I guess. They asked me to make a phone call and to see if I could sell. I did, I ended up calling a business. I ended up talking to the business owner. I ended up getting a quote for him. Through that my boss was like, “Okay we understand that you can do that. Try doing a residential.” I got a quote through them and therefore I did my job in front of them. I showed them that I was capable of doing it.

Ask this one early in the process and you could save some time. It's a deal-breaker.

Insurance agents are licensed by the state. Getting the license number speeds up your background check with the state insurance commissioner; it sends a clear message to the agent that you intend to do a background check.

You can laugh it off as being precautionary and being a waste of a phone call if that gets the agent to show you a license, but you should make it clear that you won't hire an agent who can't prove that he or she is currently licensed. Some states give agents a card to show, others a certificate for the wall. It doesn't matter; ask for proof, look at the document, check the names and dates.

If an agency is big enough, the salesman may only close the deal, leaving subordinates or clerical staff to do the actual paperwork and much of the research. If that's the case, find out who will have responsibility for your account.

‘Contestable period’ is usually 1 or 2 years, during which the insurance company holds all the right to investigate the policy and decide whether to pay or not to pay to the insured.

Co-insurance term is usually referred to health insurance companies. In this type of policy, you share the coverage with, the insurance company in percentage of the policy value, after paying deductible or co-payment. It is the split of insurance coverage between you and insurance company; usually the split would be 80/20 % where you are liable to pay 20% and the remaining amount by the insurance company. For example, for health policy you have claimed for $200, according to policy clause you have to pay deductible, let say $100, now after paying deductible the remaining amount is $100, now you have a co-insurance which is split into 80/20%. So you will pay $20 out of $100 from your pocket while the $80 will be paid by co-insurance(meaning the insurance company).

It is safe to pay the premium through your agent as far as you are making the payment through cheques on the name of Insurance Company and receiving all the receipts for the payments.