To access
Accounts from the Home screen, do one of the following:
Click
Accounts
on the navigation panel.
Click
Areas
> Accounts on the menubar.
Click
the down
arrow next to Home
on the options bar and select Accounts.
Click
the Locatebutton on the options bar.
To access Accounts from another area
of the program, do one of the following:
Click Home
> Accounts on the menubar.
Click the down
arrow next to Home
on the options bar and select Accounts.
Click the Locate
button on the options bar.
In
the Locate account
dropdown menu, select Client.
Select
a Locate
by option from the dropdown menu.
You can access claim detail directly from the Account
Locate screen by selecting the Claims:
Additional Parties, Date of Loss, Insurer Claim #,
or Internal Claim #
option and double clicking on an item in your search results.
Note:Location by phone number searches all phone numbers
associated with client and contact accounts (e.g., residential,
mobile, fax).
Select
the suitable checkbox
or checkboxes
to the right.
Insureds
Prospects
Active
Inactive
Enter
the first few letters of the name, policy number, lookup code,
etc. (depending on your Locate
by selection) and press [Enter]
or click Locate.
The Results list displays all
of the accounts that match the criteria you entered. Click
on a column heading to sort the list by that category. For
example, click the Last
Name column heading to sort by last name in ascending
order. To sort in descending order, click the Last Name column heading again.
Highlight
the desired item
in the Results list.
Click Claims
on the navigation panel or Areas
>Claims
on the menubar.
To change
the types of claims that display in the list, click the word
Claims
in the view filter.
A
list of choices displays:
All
Open
Closed
Click
on the appropriate selection.
Use the search bar to display claims that meet specific criteria.
Apply a single
filter (using the search fields) or multiple filters
(using the Edit Filter
button ) to narrow the list of claims.
Selecting multiple criteria performs an "and"
search (for example, claims with a specific Date
of Loss and Loss
Type).
Click the Edit
Filter button .
The Edit Filter
pop-up window displays. Click the Add
button to add filters.
Select and/or enter search criteria
using the dropdown menus and fields. Click the Add
button again to apply additional filters. Enter additional
search criteria.
Click the Delete
button to remove a filter from the list.
Click Finish
when you have applied all of your desired filters.
Hover over the Search
where text to see the filter that is currently
applied to the list.
To clear the currently applied
filter (for the current session only) and start over,
click the Clear
Filter link label. The search bar displays in blue
when filters are applied and in gray when filters are
cleared.
Make a selection
in the first dropdown menu.
The choices available
in the second dropdown menu vary, depending on your
selection in the first dropdown menu:
Equals:
Enter the search criterion
(e.g., the full description) in the field to the
right, or select a date
from the dropdown calendar (if applicable).
Contains:
Enter at least one character
of the search criterion (e.g., part
of the description) in the field to the right.
Within Range:
Search between two calendar dates. Click the down
arrow to the right of each field to choose
dates from the dropdown calendars.
Click Find
to apply the filter. Hover over the Search
where text to see the filter that is currently
applied to the list.
To clear the currently applied filter (for the current
session only) and start over, click the Clear Filter link label.
The search bar displays in blue when filters are applied
and in gray when filters are cleared.
To save your currently applied filters
as a default for this client or all clients, create Filter
Defaults. Filter defaults are unavailable
on Claims lists opened
from the Access menu,
as Access > Claims
already provides a filtered view.
Your filter defaults are unique to your user code and will not
affect other users’ saved defaults.
Click the Filter
Defaults link label.
Select the Use
as default checkbox to save your selected filters
as the default for all clients that do not already
have a filter default saved.
Filters listed in italics (e.g., Insurer
Claims #, Internal Claim #,
Policy #) include search criteria that will
not apply to all clients. These filters can only be
saved as defaults for the selected client.
To replace existing filter defaults for all clients
(including clients that already have other filter
defaults saved), select the Override
existing filters for clients checkbox.
Click OK to apply the filter
default.
To clear a filter default, click the Clear Filter link label,
click the Filter
Defaults link label, select the appropriate
checkboxes
in the Filter Defaults
window, and click OK.
The list displays
the claims for the selected customer. Click on a column
heading to sort the list by that category.
Note: You
can access claims from the Account
Detail screen in the same manner.
Click the claim
in the list.
Do one
of the following:
Click
the Edit
button on
the Claims screen.
Click
File >
Open on the menubar.
Double
click the claim.
Press
[Ctrl]+O.
The Claim Detail screen
displays. The navigation panel expands to show the available categories
for the selected claim. Click Additional
Parties.
In the list, click on the additional
party whose information you want to view or edit.
Make the necessary changes in the fields below the list.