Silver Screen’s Claims Adjusters

Here’s a stumper for the next time you’re in the midst of a cutthroat game of movie trivia: What on-screen profession do Woody Allen and Ronald Reagan have in common? None other than that of a claims adjuster. Woody Allen’s recent Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) continues a tradition of adjusters in film that goes at least as far back as Reagan’s 1939 film, Accidents Will Happen, in which Reagan tracks down an organized insurance fraud ring while trying to appease his wife who is discontented with the small paycheck he receives for the work he finds so interesting (the more things change…). Claim adjusting is quietly becoming a hot profession in Hollywood, as no less than six films in the past few years