EFI Global is dedicated to educating professionals in the insurance, legal, and corporate community who regularly deal with issues such as investigation ethics, fire losses, engineering design failures, environmental concerns and natural disasters.  Our professionals present these continuing education classes regularly at the client’s request at a location of their choice.

We currently offer many seminars approved by various State Departments of Insurance for continuing education credit, including Ethics for the Professional Investigator, Processing Water Loss Claims for Subrogation, Basic Fire Science, Accident Reconstruction, and Construction Defects.

EFI Global can also perform training classes that do not require state continuing education credits.  We have registered professionals in engineering, fire and environmental disciplines that can customize a training class in order to meet the specific needs of your organization.  Please contact a local EFI Global office for more information. 

For a detailed description of each state-certified continuing education class, select the link below.  If you would like to inquire about scheduling one of these classes for your organization, please contact

Texas: Marsha Johnson, Account Executive based in our corporate office, at 713-206-4481.

California: David Brien, District Manager based in our Sacramento office, at 916-797-1503.

Construction Training

• Basic Building Construction for the Adjuster - 2.0 credits
  The students will learn the basic building components of structure from the foundation up to the peak of the roof and how the components are assembled during construction. The familiarization of Building Construction will give the new adjuster a reverse engineering perspective when analyzing a structure during the field-adjusting phase of the claims process. The knowledge of the integration of the building components will aid the adjuster in the fix or replace decisions during the claims handling process.
  Texas Certification 6.28.09
  
  
• Residential Foundation Evaluations - 2.0 credits
  This class will give the student a qualitative understanding of residential foundation design and performance characteristics. The student will be provided with information on the engineering process used to evaluate the performance and condition of residential foundations. Enhancing the students’ ability to acquire and evaluate information during the claims adjustment process.
  Texas Certification 6.28.09
  
  
• Moisture Movement in Buildings - 2.0 credits
  This course will provide an understanding of water vapor properties and its movement, importance of proper humidity control, harmful effect of excessive moisture on common building materials, causes of condensation, and the design and construction factors influencing moisture movement in buildings.
  Texas Certification 6.28.09
  
  
• Construction Defects – 2.0 credits
  The licensee will obtain a knowledge of how to recognize the nature and extent of the distress or changed conditions associated with the most common types of construction defects, and understand the design-build process by which construction defects are produced including the contribution of design, installation and material factors.  Understand the process of documenting construction defects for potential claims.
  Texas Certification 11.2008
  
  
• Hail and Its Effects on Shingle Roofing Systems – 2.0 credits
  The licensee will obtain knowledge of how hail is formed and the physics of the impact damage that can occur as a result of the various factors that are present on a typical residential composition shingle roof.  The licensee will be able to identify the types of roof damage that can be caused by hail strikes and other non-hail events.
  Texas Certification 11.29.08

Ethics Training

• Ethics for the Professional Investigator - 2.0 credits
  The purpose of this class is to provide adjusters, SIU personnel, corporate security professionals and licensed private investigators an overview of ethics and professional standards as they relate to the conduct and general framework of legal investigations or supervision of those conducting legal investigations.
  Texas Certification 11.20.06

Fire Training

• Basic Fire Science - 3.0 credits
  This course will provide the student with the knowledge to understanding principles of how fires initiate, develop, and spread. The elements involved in the combustion process will be detailed separately and then collectively in order to understand the requirements for the initiation and spread of fires. Resultant fire patterns and the interpretation of various indicators will aid the students in the thought process involved in determining a fires origin.
  Texas Certification 7.2.09
  
  
• Fire Investigation Issues - 1.0 credit
  The purpose of this course is to provide adjusters, SIU personnel, insurance claims professionals and other fire investigators with an overview of basic fire investigation issues, fire scene examination requirements, and criteria with which to manage, judge and troubleshoot files.
  Texas Certification 6.21.09
  
  
• Fire Investigations (4 hours)
  The purpose of this course is to provide adjusters, SIU personnel, insurance claims professionals and other fire investigators with an overview of basic fire investigation issues, fire scene examination requirements, and criteria with which to manager, judge and troubleshoot files.
  California Certification 7.31.09

Water Loss

• Processing Water Loss Claims for Subrogation - 2.0 credits
  This class provides the student with the knowledge of how to recognize, document and process water loss claims that have the potential for an economically beneficial recovery of insurance claim costs through subrogation for product performance failure, material defect, manufacturing defect, installation error or construction defect.
  Texas Certification: 5.2008
  
  
• Processing Water Loss Claims for Subrogation - 1.0 credits
  The student will obtain a knowledge of how water losses occur for various residential plumbing fixtures and appliances as a result of product performance failure, material defect, manufacturing defect, installation error or construction defect.
  Texas Certification: 11.2008

Earthquakes

• Earthquakes for Adjusters (8 hours)
  The purpose of this course is to provide adjusters with a basic understanding of earthquakes and related damage. The familiarization of basic construction methods and the types of earthquake damage will aid the adjuster in the fix or replace decisions during the claims handling process.
  California Certification 5.31.09

Accident Reconstruction and Biomechanics Training

• Fraud Accident Analysis - 2.0 credits
  This course examines the indicators of collision fraud. Topics include general indicators of fraud and auto accident schemes, auto damage fraud, and occupant motion in an accident. The technical lecture is supplemented with photographs of staged contact damage compared with actual collision damage.
  Texas Certification Pending Renewal
  
  
• Use of SDM Data in Accident Reconstruction & Claims Handling - 3.0 credits
  This program will discuss the use of data gathered from the air bag sensing diagnostic module (SDM) in accident reconstruction and insurance claims handling. The capabilities, limitations, and analysis of the SDM data and its application in evaluating insurance claims with respect to liability and biomechanical issues will also be discussed.
  Texas Certification: 7.2009
  
  
• Principles in Commercial Vehicle Accident Reconstruction - 3.0 credits
  This class explores the scientific principles that apply to collision investigations and will compare and contracts the application of these methods to commercial vehicle crashes. This course will also discuss pertinent driver and equipment regulations that are governed by Federal statute.
  Texas Certification 7.2009
  
  
• Current Topics in Crash Reconstruction - 1.0 credit
  The attendee will have a basic understanding of the reconstruction techniques, injury threshold and current technology used in solving reconstruction problems. The attendee will be introduced to the components associated with low velocity impact injury analysis, crash reconstruction and data extracted from the so-called, vehicle black box.
  Texas Certification: 12.2008

Biomechanics Training

• Advanced Biomechanics - 3.0 credits
  We will address various aspects of biomechanical analysis relative to vehicular collisions. This course explores the myths associated with low speed collisions and injury mechanics, as well as considerations when preparing to use a biomechanical expert in trial. A review of applicable legal issues that affect biomechanical analysis will also be presented. Further, in depth case studies from three actual cases compare a low speed collision where injury complaints are consistent, a low speed collision that features a host of injuries that are inconsistent, and finally, injury analysis in a high-speed collision.
  Texas Certification: 7.2009