Adjustment of claims is not confined to claims against insurance companies.

"Chapter 9 provides a method for the adjustment of claims against municipalities so they may reorganize their financial affairs and continue to provide those essential services."

He was appointed a United States commissioner under the convention concluded with Peru in 1868 for the adjustment of claims of citizens of either country.

He was appointed United States commissioner to Mexico, under the treaty of Washington for the adjustment of claims, by President Grant in 1869.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Robinson to direct adjustment of claims of World War I veterans, at the request of the Disabled American Veterans.

Public adjuster: One whose business is the adjustment of claims for insurance, employed, not regularly for full-time by one person or company, but by members of the public, insureds or insurers, as their need of an adjuster arises.

He was appointed umpire by the commission named under the convention of 1864, concluded between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia, for the adjustment of claims of American citizens against the Colombian government.