All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2024 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Wednesday sent a letter to insurers urging them to consider loosening personal property claim filing requirements for victims of last summer’s Spokane County...
Mar 6 2024 // The latest trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson’s talc products cause cancer ended in a mistrial on Tuesday, as a Florida state court jury said it could not agree on a verdict.The lawsuit was brought by Bob...
Mar 5 2024 // Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while...
Mar 4 2024 // Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday.But U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed some other...
Mar 4 2024 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows nearly half of all litigated claims in the Los Angeles Basin are cumulative trauma claims that involve physical or mental injuries from repetitive stress,...
Mar 4 2024 // March 1 (Reuters) – A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy XEL.O on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the...
Mar 4 2024 // Los Angeles and Orange County are number one of the top 20 list for a second consecutive quarter for 2023 and stay at the top in theft claims handled by population. Wheelnet, a provider for wheel and tire replacement for...
Feb 29 2024 // A California state judge has tentatively ruled that nearly 6,000 Black factory workers can sue Tesla as a group for the electric vehicle maker’s alleged failure to address rampant race discrimination and harassment...
Feb 29 2024 // Claims Journal, a Wells Media Company, has named Don Jergler as editor. He succeeds Jim Sams who retired in January.Jergler has covered the insurance industry for over 20 years and holds multiple nominations and an AZBEE...
Feb 28 2024 // The U.S. Department of Justice said a record 543 settlements and judgements under the False Claims Act resulted in about $2.7 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2023.The amount of settlements and judgements was a...
Feb 27 2024 // Six people have been indicted in connection with the alleged filing of fraudulent insurance claims through their auto body repair business in Everett, Massachusetts.Four of the defendants were arraigned this week in...
Feb 21 2024 // Protection and Indemnity (P&I) clubs sought further price improvements at the February 2024 renewals in order to keep up with claims inflation, despite a relatively benign year for P&I claims in 2023, according to...
Feb 20 2024 // Uber Technologies last Friday sued its drivers’ auto insurer for defense and indemnification regarding multiple lawsuits that are seeking to hold Uber vicariously liable for accidents involving some of its drivers in...
Feb 19 2024 // Shannon Ninio, 60, of North Hills was arraigned for insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she and her husband, Moshe Ninio, allegedly stole customers’ personal information and...
Feb 16 2024 // Georgia law enforcement authorities were searching for a Lawrenceville woman who allegedly submitted fabricated medical records in an auto insurance claim in an effort to collect $15,000, the state insurance commissioner...
Feb 16 2024 // Los Angeles and Orange County are number one of the top 20 list for a second consecutive quarter for 2023 and stay at the top in theft claims handled by population. Wheelnet, a provider for wheel and tire replacement for...
Feb 15 2024 // Match Group was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action claiming that its dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League are designed to addict users, generating more profit for the company, rather than help them establish...
Feb 15 2024 // Burns & Wilcox Names Kestenbaum Managing Director of New Boston Office Insurance broker Burns & Wilcox, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, named Peter Kestenbaum managing director of its new Boston...
Feb 13 2024 // A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has dismissed negligence, infliction of emotional distress and other claims against Harvard and the operators of its medical school’s anatomical gift program by relatives of...
Feb 12 2024 // Hewlett-Packard lost more than $4 billion over its acquisition of British software firm Autonomy because of an elaborate fraud masterminded by its co-founder Mike Lynch to inflate the company’s value, HP’s...