This Book Is Too Hot To Handle
and Got Me Fired!

Too Hot To Handle!!!

Friends, the contents of this book got me FIRED from my job. Let me tell you how it happened.

I was working as an Executive General Adjuster for an international independent claims adjusting company, which has its home office in Atlanta. I had finished the book in August of 2006, and by December of 2006 I was ready to publish it and release it for sales.

Many of my wisest advisors urged me to release the book under an assumed name. They had read the manuscript, and believed that my employer would not approve of the book’s content and the secrets it reveals. I took their advice, and actually had chosen a penname, R. David Murphy.

But I still believed that old saying that “honesty is the best policy.” So, I called the secretary of the President of the company, and made an appointment to speak with the President. I wanted to tell him up front about the book, and see what position he would take on behalf of the company.

I took a proof copy of my book and showed it to the President. I explained that the book was written from a pro-consumer standpoint. I showed him that the book was written under an assumed name, so my real name never appeared anywhere in the book or my website. I asked him what position the company would take regarding one of their employees selling a pro-consumer book. The President offered encouragement about the book. He never gave a clue that he thought this book was "too hot to handle."

He suggested that I talk to my immediate supervisor and the Vice President of our division to get their opinions, too. He wished me well, shook my hand, and I left his office.

That afternoon, I met with both the Managing Director and the Vice President and told them about the book. I even gave them two proof copies of the book to review.

The next afternoon, which happened to be the Wednesday before Christmas, they called me into the office of the Managing Director. The VP had read SOME of the book, and was visibly angry. He told me that most of the secrets that I was revealing placed me in a conflict of interest position with the company and our customers, the insurance companies.

He said that if the insurance companies found out that the author of that book worked for that claims adjusting company, the insurance companies would not give us any assignments, which could cost our company millions.

Here is the VP’s most shocking comment: He said, “Russ, I’m not saying that what you’ve written is in error or incorrect. We can all sit around a table at a bar and talk about these things. But you just cannot say these things in public, and certainly not in a book!!”

I wasn't surprised by his reaction...I already knew the book was too hot to handle for anyone working on the insurance company side.

At that time, I had a hefty salary income at that company. I told them that the book was still only in manuscript form, and that I was in complete control of the date the book was published and released to the public. I was not willing to place my income at risk on the release of the book, so I promised to withhold the release of the book as long as I was an employee of that company.

But that’s not where it ended, though...

I’m sure it was just a coincidence that from that date in December 2006 until March 13, 2007, the date that they FIRED ME, I never received another claim assignment. I was only allowed to work the claim files that I had in inventory already.

When they fired me, they wrote on my termination paperwork that the reason for the termination was “reduction in force.” That meant layoffs company-wide. Curious though...a few days before my termination, we'd received a six-page letter from the President of the company, telling us how great the company was doing, and that the company's overall 2006 revenues grew by 6%, and that net income had grown by 17%.

Also curious is that no one else in that department was terminated BUT ME. NO ONE ELSE.

Yes, Friends, they wrote on my termination paperwork that the reason for the termination was “reduction in force.”However, that’s not what they told other people about why they fired me.

One of my friends, who is an adjuster at another adjusting company, was told by the secretary of my former boss that I had been fired because “I had been ‘CAUGHT’ doing something that was a conflict of interest.”

Since being fired, I phoned some of my former colleagues in the office just to say hello. One of them said that they were ordered not to speak to me by phone or to answer my emails.

Too hot to handle? ONLY FOR THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND ADJUSTERS!

Remember...the book was only a manuscript, and hadn't been turned into a book for release yet. I was going to release it using a penname instead of my own name.

So, the issue was not me..IT WAS ENTIRELY THE INFORMATION IN THE BOOK!!

What kinds of information is in this book that makes it too hot to handle?

Find out for yourself what the insurance executives are scared of!!

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