Insurance Subrogation and Defense Litigation Lawyers
Serving Clients throughout the U.S. and North America

Arbitration/Electronic Settlement Services

• Electronic settlement service
• Where the insurance industry goes to settle disputes. See Chapter on inter-company arbitration.
• An on-line method to resolve claims
• Internet based alternative dispute resolution system.
• Internet based alternative dispute system
• Provides 24 hour dispute resolution.
• Application templates from Arbitration Forums

Associations

• The National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP)
• American Insurance Association. This is a trade group that represents more than 300 property/casualty insurance companies
• The Association for Insurance Professionals that have earned the CPCU designation
• The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
• American Arbitration Association. Dispute Resolution Services worldwide
• The official site of National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• Insurance Industry Association for Benchmarking
• The National Council on Compensation Insurance

Find Any Information

• The single best source for facts on the Internet
• Legal Explanations

General Resources/Measurements/Language

• Translate any language into any other language instantly
• Translates any language into any other language instantly.
• Convert just about anything to anything else. Acceleration, closing, computers, currency, flow rates, frequency, length, numbers, pressure, torque, rate, and hundreds of others
• Legal dictionary
• Weather information and weather glossary

Government and Motor Vehicle, Highway Safety, and Transportation

• Public records database collection for all 50 states, Canada and the World. Largest collection of free public records on the Internet
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• Search systems. Offers 7,453 free searchable public record databases for all 50 states
• Electronic settlement service
• Excellent resource to help you to find federal and state court web sites and information
• Federal Highway Administration
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This is where you find the safety recalls
• A community of occupational safety professionals
• Offer vehicle ratings, recalls, special reports on vehicles and highway safety
• Contains codes and standards and other very valuable information for use in pursuing fire loss subrogation
• A public record information service, which offers on-line and preprogrammed reports of federal regulatory compliance and enforcement data for every business nationwide
• Gives safety alerts on an on going basis
• Product reports - safety recalls
• Official site of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Livestock/Vehicle Collision Cases - All 50 States
• State Traffic Crash Report Forms

Insurance General

• This link helps clients locate any insurance company.
• Provides basis information about various lines of insurance. This site answers questions about rates, liability, limits, lines of coverage and policy types. Insurance basics library
• Home page for claims professionals. Hundreds of claims sources and tools, including calculators for blood alcohol, building loss, business interruption, roof size, etc
• The insurance guide. Mostly consumer oriented but helps to locate insurance companies, products, lawsuits, and great links to other helpful sites. Provides great links to insurance company web sites and complete descriptions of all types of coverage available
• The official page of the A.M. Best can be used to research for company names and addresses
• The Insurance Coverage Explanations and Definitions of Insurance Terms. The Insurance & Planning Resource Center. Brought to you by the Lewis-Chester Group contains interesting short articles on subjects such as waivers of subrogation
• Electronic settlement service
• Valuable research sites on insurance and subrogation topics and glossaries and helps you locate companies
• Glossary of insurance terms
• Glossary of workers' compensation terms
• Insurance Research Council provides timely and reliable research on issues affecting insurance
• Liability Risk Bureau. Lots of information and writing available to members only
• The Federal Web Locator. Provides federal government information at your fingertips
• Insurance laws of every state
• Extensive - geared primarily for the legal professionals
• Insurance Service Organization. Links for insurance research
• Extensive insurance related links

Investigators

• Sponsored by Ion Incorporated. Locate an investigator anywhere by city, state, specialty, or simply a nationwide search
• Find out just about anything about anyone. Access more than 94,000 databases and resources. People searches, public records, government, research, and business records. Download of software required

Legal General

• FindLaw
• West Legal Directory
• Thomson - West (formerly West Group)
• U.S. Courts
• Westlaw

Legal Research and State Government Research

• A good place to start - the Internet Legal Resource Guide
• Legal documents on line. Prepare customized legal documents directly on line. Many documents free, other available for small fee. All can be previewed
• A comprehensive legal search site providing everything from research to court reporters
• Thousands of links to subjects including laws, cases, codes, expert witnesses, legal organizations, law schools, and summaries of various areas of law and more.
• Electronic settlement service
• This resource provides an index to legal mega sites or those that focus on particular legal topics
• One of the best if not the best sites for researching the law. Begin at "Law About" to get into your topical research
• Extensive. How extensive - would you believe bar results?
• Under current events law this fabulous search engine offers law related issues
• Electronic settlement service
• Directory of insurance companies on the Internet
• Virtual law school community where you can access a variety of legal resources, including, Westlaw, The West Education Network, current legal news, career services, and other contents from West Group

Locating Companies, People, and Information

• World wide adjuster, expert, and attorney search database - the complete claim services information source
• Comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence information on corporate America. Locate principal place of business and State of Incorporation on any company
• White pages and yellow pages searchable
• Phone finder. Search for U.S., Canadian and International telephone number and area codes
• A reverse telephone lookup. Supply an area code and phone number and get the address of the person associated
• World pages. More than 112 million integrated white and yellow page telephone listing
• Search for more then 16 million businesses
• "Big Yellow" helps find companies and people
• "The Big Book" is a search engine used to locate people and businesses
• Lots of financial information but useful to find companies
• Search engine for find people
• Has great insurance policy, claims and policyholder service forms
• Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)

Maps

• Find locations, driving directions, and distance between locations
• How far is it? Find the distance between any two locations
• A virtual aerial flyover of the entire country. Just enter address to receive aerial photographs

Medical

• Search for information on medical diseases and medical terms, diseases and conditions, procedures and tests, and medications. Medical dictionary
• American Board of Medical Specialties. Obtain information on board certified medical doctors across the country
• The Internet drug index. Fast, reliable information to both the consumer and the medical professional
• National Library of Science information on thousands of prescriptions and over-the-counter medications through two different drug resources
• Physicians Desk Reference on-line searchable

Miscellaneous

• Understand how anything and everything works. Our favorite site on the web, other than our own
• Ask a scientist or engineer - find out the answers to anything
• Used car values
• The office site of Claims Magazine
• The official site of the Defense Research Institute. A good site to find experts and research on legal issues affecting your subrogation claim
• The Insurance Fraud Bureau
• National Publishing Company, Inc. All you want to know about claims
• The insurance guide to Internet primarily oriented to basic descriptions of various types of insurance and companies and agents offering various lines of coveragee
• This site describes itself as the first ever government web site to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Government resources. This cutting-edge site gives the American people the "Information Age" government they deserve. By using the wonders of information technology to bring government closer to the American people, we can expand the reach of democracy and make government more responsive to citizens
• The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
• Electronic settlement service
• Livestock Statutes - All 50 States
• Recreational Use Statutes - all 50 States

Motor Vehicle Registration/Driver's License

• Complete Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing state by state
• Extensive electronic insurance library with more than 700,000 pages

News

• New York Times
• Newspapers Online
• USA Today
• Wall Street Journal

Police Records

• American Association of Insurance Services a product development resource for property and casualty insurers
• The insurance industry's non-profit provider of forms used in the insurance industry
• The official page of the Insurance Institute where you will find policy forms
• Provides certificates of insurance via the inter-com

Search Engines

• AOL
• Google
• Yahoo!

Worker's Compensation

• Home pages for all 50 states including workers' compensation agencies

Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C., represents the subrogation needs of clients in all 50 United States: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; and throughout Canada and Mexico.