Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage Appraise automobile or other vehicle damage to determine repair costs for insurance claim settlement. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost or cost estimates and recommendations. May seek agreement with automotive repair shop on repair costs.
Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage is Also Know as
In different settings, Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage is titled as
- Appraiser
- Automobile Appraiser (Auto Appraiser)
- Automobile Damage Appraiser (Auto Damage Appraiser)
- Damage Appraiser
- Field Appraiser
- Field Inspector
- Insurance Appraiser
- Material Damage Appraiser
- Outside Physical Damage Appraiser
- Physical Damage Appraiser
Education and Training of Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage is categorized in Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education Required for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
Degrees Related to Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Bachelor in Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technicia
- Associate Degree Courses in Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technicia
- Masters Degree Courses in Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technicia
- Bachelor in Insurance
- Associate Degree Courses in Insurance
- Masters Degree Courses in Insurance
Training Required for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage in different industries are
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property
- Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate
- Cost Estimators
- Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
- Automotive Engineering Technicians
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks
- Insurance Underwriters
- Parts Salespersons
- Counter and Rental Clerks
- Customer Service Representatives
- Insurance Sales Agents
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Billing and Posting Clerks
- Transportation Inspectors
- Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
What Do Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage do?
- Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.
- Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.
- Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.
- Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.
- Determine salvage value on total-loss vehicle.
- Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.
- Arrange to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.
Qualities of Good Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Tools Used by Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Compact digital cameras
- Computer laser printers
- Desktop computers
- Electronic digital theodolites
- Hand calculators
- Laptop computers
- Laser facsimile machines"
- Measure markers
- Measuring tapes
- Tablet computers
- Tire tread depth gauges
Technology Skills required for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- A-T Solutions Easy Street Draw
- Adobe Acrobat
- App Software Associations AppTrak.net
- Cost estimating software
- Disassembler software
- Email software
- Information Services Inc. CCC Pathways Appraisal Solution
- Meridian Technologies SurePoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Mitchell International Mitchell WorkCenter
- NCH Software Express Invoice
- Solera Audatex Estimating
- Swan River Software Estimiser Pro
- Vertafore ImageRight
- Web browser software
- Web-Est estimating software