All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 28 2016 // San Diego, CA, June 28, 2016 –American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) has assumed third party administration of all animal malpractice and general liability claims for Veterinary Centers of America (VCA), a publicly...
Jun 27 2016 // Problems with vendors amounted to 30 percent of claim payments for all wedding claims, according to Travelers Companies, Inc. which announced the findings of its recent analysis of wedding insurance claims from...
Jun 23 2016 // A Pulaski County, Ark., employee who processed insurance claims has been fired after being arrested and charged with filing false insurance claims for nearly $250,000.Authorities say 60-year-old Wanda Wyatt was a fleet...
Jun 23 2016 // Two sisters have sued a Catholic priest, his central Pennsylvania diocese and two ex-bishops who supervised him, saying the cleric molested them repeatedly as girls — including one at her first Communion party.The...
Jun 23 2016 // Citizens Board of Governors has approved recommended rates for 2017 that equal an average rate increase of nearly 7 percent statewide. The company said the increase is a necessary response to rising non-weather water...
Jun 22 2016 // A new U.K. law, designed to make it harder for insurers to dispute commercial insurance claims, could lead to more intense price competition and slimmer margins for the sector, according to Fitch Ratings.The Insurance Act,...
Jun 21 2016 // A 2005 federal law was designed specifically to prevent gunmakers from being sued for mass killings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School, lawyers for the maker of the AR-15 assault weapon used in the attack told a...
Jun 20 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a group of black South Africans seeking to revive human rights litigation aiming to hold Ford Motor Co. and IBM Corp. liable for allegedly conducting business that...
Jun 20 2016 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found “noticeable decreases” in the amount of opioids prescribed per workers’ compensation claims in a majority of 25 states studied.The...
Jun 20 2016 // Death claims are the most common hospital liability claims, according to an insurance company study released after researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported that medical errors are the third...
Jun 20 2016 // A recent analysis of the workers’ compensation “opt-out” system in Oklahoma concludes that employer-run plans for injured workers may offer benefits that are equal to or better than those provided by...
Jun 20 2016 // When a directors and officers (D&O) claim is declined, it can be catastrophic for an insured, forcing the company to deal with “the financial costs of a claim or loss entirely on its own,” according to a...
Jun 17 2016 // CAMICO, a CPA-directed program of insurance and risk management for the accounting profession, and Berkley Alliance Managers (BAM), a W. R. Berkley Company, have announced new insurance policies with enhanced coverage....
Jun 17 2016 // A 30-year-old self-insurance pool has been paying off well for North Dakota political subdivisions, despite large claim losses in 2015.“It’s worked extremely well,” said Steve Spilde, chief executive...
Jun 17 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed some limits on the kind of fraud claims that can be brought against federal contractors in a case involving a suit against one of America’s largest hospital operators over a...
Jun 16 2016 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced that its Holocaust Claims Processing Office is the recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Citizens Award from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New...
Jun 16 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...
Jun 13 2016 // The winners of the first annual Innovation in Insurance awards include Allianz, AXA, Europ Assistance, MS&AD Insurance, and USAA.The program, jointly launched by Efma and Accenture, seeks to reward and foster...
Jun 13 2016 // One of two coverage “trigger” forms is used to provide liability protection: the “occurrence form” or the “claims made” form. Generally, there is no difference in the breadth of...
Jun 9 2016 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found “noticeable decreases” in the amount of opioids prescribed per workers’ compensation claim in a majority of 25 states studied.The...