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Verisk

A risk datasite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.

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What Verisk collects

  • Insurance claims history (auto, home, workers' comp, liability)
  • Premium payment history
  • Property characteristics and inspection data
  • Loss history and claim outcomes
  • Vehicle accident and repair history
  • Workers' compensation injury records
  • Fraud indicator flags

How to opt out yourself

  1. There is no public-facing consumer portal. The opt-out is by email.
  2. Email privacy@verisk.com with a CCPA deletion request in the subject line.
  3. In the body, include full name, current address, all prior addresses going back at least 10 years, DOB, and any policy numbers you can pull from old insurance paperwork.
  4. Specifically reference ISO ClaimSearch, Argus, Geomni, LightSpeed, and Symbility. Naming the subsidiary databases prevents them from processing only one and calling it done.
  5. Verisk acknowledges within 10 business days under CCPA.
  6. Completion runs 45 days. CCPA permits one 45-day extension. They may retain data for regulatory and legal obligations.
  7. Save the acknowledgment and completion emails. If you ever switch homeowner or auto carriers, your new insurer may pull ClaimSearch — keep proof of what you asked them to delete.

What Verisk knows about you

Verisk is one of the quietest big data players. Jersey City, publicly traded, almost nobody outside the insurance industry has heard of them. That's by design — their customers are carriers and reinsurers, not consumers.

The flagship is ISO ClaimSearch. It's the shared claims database every major insurer queries before underwriting a policy or paying a claim. Auto. Home. Workers' comp. Liability. Verisk also runs Argus for premium and loss data, Geomni for property analytics, LightSpeed for underwriting, and Symbility for claims processing.

What that means for your file: every claim you've ever made — date, type, amount, the address on the policy, the outcome, fraud flags if any — is in there. Every workers' comp injury. Every vehicle accident.

Why it matters if you're on the job

Verisk isn't a doxxing tool. A protester or a stalker can't buy a ClaimSearch report. The threat is sideways.

If you filed a homeowner's claim three houses ago, ClaimSearch has that address tied to your name. If you've moved to a new place and aren't on the current deed — because the home is in a trust or a spouse's name — ClaimSearch may still show your prior address as the most recent one tied to you.

Anyone with insurer-level access can query that. It's also a confirmation source. Other brokers cross-reference insurance-claim addresses to validate consumer listings. Verisk is the back room, not the front door.

For first responders with a claims history — a firefighter with a workers' comp injury, a cop with a duty vehicle claim, a paramedic with a back injury — that record is permanent and tied to where you lived at the time.

How to opt out

There is no public consumer portal. By design — Verisk's customer is the insurance industry, not you.

The opt-out is by email to privacy@verisk.com. CCPA gives you the right to deletion regardless of how easy they make the form. Send a written request. Include name, current and prior addresses, DOB, and any policy numbers you can dig up. Name the subsidiary databases — ISO ClaimSearch, Argus, Geomni, LightSpeed, Symbility — by name. If you don't, they may process against one and call the file closed.

They acknowledge within 10 business days under CCPA. Completion runs 45 days, with one extension possible. They retain what they argue is needed for regulatory or legal obligations — a broad carve-out in insurance.

How long until you're back

About 12 months. ClaimSearch is event-driven, not continuously refreshed. A new claim re-populates a record. A renewal re-attaches address data. If you don't file new claims, the data ages in place.

What we do that's faster

We draft the email, send it on your behalf with the right subsidiary names called out, and track the 45-day clock. When a new claim re-attaches data, we file again. Parallel filings across every risk broker that touches your file.

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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