All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2016 // The purchase and use of smartphones, tablets, wearable computers and other mobile computing devices (MCDs) connected to the internet have experienced staggering growth in the past several years. Soon after the Apple App...
Jul 25 2016 // California employers routinely pay the highest insurance rates for workers’ compensation in the country. The increasing rates are due to several factors including rising medical costs and an aging workforce. In this...
Jul 22 2016 // Law firms have seen an increase in the frequency of malpractice claims, which are becoming more costly to defend and could cause lasting reputational damage, according to a new study by insurance broker Ames & Gough....
Jul 21 2016 // A federal appeals court said on Wednesday the U.S. government cannot seize a midtown Manhattan office tower originally built by the Shah of Iran, whose owners it claimed were fronts for the Iranian government.The 2nd U.S....
Jul 19 2016 // G2 Insurance Services has named Martin Fox-Foster claims manager.Fox-Foster will be located in the company’s San Francisco office He will serve as a resource to G2 Insurance’s commercial clients, advocating on...
Jul 19 2016 // Dallas-based Vale Training, a Cunningham Lindsey company and an independent division specializing in training for adjusters and appraisers in the insurance claims industry, has launched Vale Consulting Services to provide...
Jul 19 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI) announced it has expanded its Northern European operations, appointing Ulrich Kremer as senior vice president, Claims, Northern Europe.Ulrich joins BHSI with nearly 16...
Jul 18 2016 // BP Plc has raised the total liability from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which triggered the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, by $5.2 billion to $61.6 billion before tax.The London-based company expects to...
Jul 15 2016 // State officials say damage claims for Montana crops due to hail are nearly double what they’ve been in recent years.The Billings Gazette reported the state Department of Agriculture’s Walt Anseth says farmers...
Jul 14 2016 // State officials say damage claims for Montana crops due to hail are nearly double what they’ve been in recent years.The Billings Gazette reports the state Department of Agriculture’s Walt Anseth says farmers...
Jul 14 2016 // Penn State coach Joe Paterno was told by a teen boy in 1976 that assistant coach Jerry Sandusky had molested him in the shower but responded that he didn’t want to hear about it and had “a football season to...
Jul 14 2016 // General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a...
Jul 13 2016 // After review by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) and much criticism from Florida stakeholders, Florida-based Heritage Property & Casualty Company has withdrawn its request for an overall 14.9 percent...
Jul 12 2016 // The latest study of medicine prices finds U.S. insurers’ spending on expensive prescription drugs nearly quadrupled from 2003 through 2014, when the number of such prescriptions filled tripled.Spending on expensive...
Jul 12 2016 // A comparison of independent agent opinions five years ago to today shows how far the agency channel has come while also illustrating that certain fundamentals remain important throughout cycles and market disruption.Nearly...
Jul 11 2016 // Property/casualty losses arising from construction defects, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, industrial accidents, tornadoes or any number of other perils can strike at almost any time. When they do, the impacts to...
Jul 11 2016 // Following a severe hailstorm in south Texas in 2012, insurers were beset with homeowner property lawsuits – sometimes after claims were paid and repairs were completed, according to an insurer trade group.Since then,...
Jul 7 2016 // Accident Fund Insurance Company of America has appointed Dean Holland to vice president of Claims. In this role, Holland is responsible for all claims and medical operations.Holland joined the company in 1987 as a claims...
Jul 7 2016 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Michael Riley has issued several emergency orders to address the response and claims handling process from severe flooding that hit the state June 23.The three emergency orders signed...
Jul 5 2016 // The collapse of Utah’s nonprofit insurance cooperative is leaving Utah hospitals with millions in unpaid claims.Arches Mutual Insurance Co. owes $33 million that the Utah Department of Insurance says will likely...