He says it is in his blood and it is certainly an integral part of his spirit. For Franklin Horowitz, the past 25 years have been a continuation of his family’s legacy. Following in the footsteps of two generations before him, his father, Bertram, and grandfather, Lawrence, Franklin Horowitz and his family have shaped the public adjustment industry, moving it well beyond property claims adjustment into catastrophic loss advocacy and recovery. Today, Franklin Horowitz operates within the company he founded in 1989, Claims International. Before that Franklin worked with his father in Young Adjustment, the company his grandfather founded in the 1930s.

Franklin Horowitz’s clients, which include foreign and domestic municipalities, multinational Fortune 500 companies, and academic institutions, along with his referral sources of leading insurance brokers, corporate lawyers, insurance litigators and subrogation attorneys, will tell you that Franklin’s ability to project the necessary reserves for the loss and its recovery almost immediately after the damage is uncanny. They say it is as if he visualizes a claim from the moment of disaster through the rebuild.

That’s why Franklin is credited with advocating and recovering for insureds in numerous high profile losses including:

• Hurricane Georges (representing the municipality of San Juan).
• Hurricane Hugo (representing more than 20 businesses including major hotels in St. Thomas).
• Anthrax Outbreak at American Media, Inc. (representing American Media, Inc., in resolving the first bio-terrorism claim).
• WTC-9/11 (representing Eureka Broadband in settling a business interruption claim – one of the first WTC settlements).

Respected by his colleagues as a leader in the field, Franklin is frequently called upon to lecture to continuing professional education and legal education programs for the insurance and legal industries. Most recently, he has spoken at programs including the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Environmental Law Forum and at the Insurance Society of Philadelphia’s continuing education meetings.

In the community, Franklin serves on the board of Woodrock, Inc., a non-profit providing educational programs throughout the Philadelphia region, and is one of the founding members of Green Sunday, a nationwide telethon sponsored by the Jewish National Fund to raise funds to support Israel.