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A Service of Barry Zalma, Inc.

Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE

Zalma Insurance Consultants (ZIC) makes available Barry Zalma's more than 45 years of practical insurance claims experience to serve those who are faced with an insurance claims or coverage dispute.  ZIC will assist its clients to resolve any insurance problem faced by lawyers representing insurers, lawyers representing policyholders, insurance claims management, insurance claims personnel, and those they seek to serve. The experience and skill of Mr. Zalma as a consultant and expert witness can make the difference before a jury, other trier of fact, or mediator.

Barry Zalma founded ZIC to help resolve every insurance claim problem faced by you or your clients. His experience and skill as a consultant and expert witness can make the difference before a jury or other trier of fact. For more than 45 years as a claims person and insurance coverage attorney, Barry Zalma has represented insurers, advised insurers on claims handling, interpreted coverages and testified as an insurance coverage, insurance bad faith, insurance claims handling and insurance fraud expert on behalf of insurers and policy holders’ suing insurers.

Mr. Zalma is an internationally recognized expert on insurance, insurance claims handling, insurance coverage, insurance fraud, and insurance bad faith. Barry Zalma will promptly review your file materials and advise you about the viability of your decision to sue or your defenses. He can help you narrow the scope of discovery

Consultation with Mr. Zalma and ZIC can save you or your client thousands of dollars in the defense or prosecution of an insurance dispute. ZIC will assist you in the effort to find a solution to an insurance claims dispute that is fair, intelligent, beneficial and economical.

ZIC is available to provide expert advice and, if needed, expert testimony to individuals and their counsel. Advice from ZIC is indispensable to the resolution of insurance disputes. Consultation from ZIC can save you, your counsel or client hundreds of hours of investigative and legal work.

With comprehensive knowledge of insurance and insurance claims handling Mr. Zalma understands, and can explain in language a lay jury understands, how and why insurance claims should be resolved.

Expert Witness

Mr. Zalma has testified as an insurance claims handling, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith and insurance fraud expert witness in the  state courts of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nebraska and federal district courts in various jurisdictions throughout the country, and even testified in an arbitration held in the British Cayman Islands.

Arbitrator or Mediator

Mr. Zalma and ZIC understand that litigation is expensive and does not always resolve a dispute. He is also available, therefore, to serve as an arbitrator or mediator for any insurance dispute. Because Mr. Zalma limits his services to insurance disputes and does not operate through a mediation or arbitration service the cost of his services are much less than the cost of an arbitrator or mediator from such a service.

Most people cannot define, let alone understand, insurance. Mr. Zalma, a native Californian, accepts the California definition of "insurance" which was codified as follows:

"Insurance is a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify another against loss, damage, or liability arising from a contingent or unknown event." [California Insurance Code Section 22]

Mr. Zalma now limits his law practice to consultation, expert witness testimony, arbitration, mediation and acting as umpire in first party property appraisals.

You can reach Barry Zalma through Zalma Insurance Consultants, 4441 Sepulveda Boulevard, CULVER CITY CA 90230; Tel: 310-390-4455; Fax: 310-391- 5614 or E-Mail: zalma@zalma.com.