All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2016 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford has taken its dispute with an insurance company to trial, seeking reimbursement of more than $1 million in payments made to settle sexual misconduct cases involving priests and...
Apr 8 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. drivers suing to be treated like employees are trying to add $1 billion in penalties under California’s unique “bounty hunter” statute as they prepare for trial in June.About...
Apr 6 2016 // Weather incidents account for more than half of all homeowners insurance claims, with wind, pipes freezing and bursting, roof and flashing leaks and ice dams among the major causes of home damage during weather...
Apr 6 2016 // A federal judge in Philadelphia granted Pfizer Inc.’s request to dismiss more than 300 lawsuits attempting to link the antidepressant Zoloft to heart defects in newborns.Pfizer was accused in lawsuits filed by...
Apr 5 2016 // Farmers Insurance expects claims from two recent severe weather systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area will result in more than $250 million in losses.Intense hail and wind from the storms caused extensive damage to homes...
Apr 5 2016 // Three sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Donor Network claiming the nonprofit was misleading when a representative convinced them to allow tissue to be harvested from their mother.Kristine Fagone and her...
Apr 4 2016 // Following the 2016 Florida Legislative Session’s failure to pass essential assignment of benefit (AOB) reforms, the insurance industry and Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are working in tandem with the Florida...
Apr 4 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board of governors approved recommendations last month aimed at reducing the impact of what it calls skyrocketing water-loss claims that could reverse progress made in returning...
Apr 4 2016 // Hail-packing thunderstorms pummeled North Texas twice in March causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to automobiles and property.Meanwhile, the Texas Department of Insurance is intent on gathering data on past...
Apr 4 2016 // With cyber insurance premiums expected to grow from around $2 billion in 2015 to an estimated $20 billion or more by 2025, insurers and reinsurers are continuing to refine underwriting requirements, according to industry...
Apr 1 2016 // Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co., based in Farmington Hills, Mich., has promoted Kimberly Vaughn to assistant vice president, workers’ compensation (WC) claims.In her new role, Vaughn oversees the day-to-day operations...
Mar 31 2016 // Commercial property/casualty insurance carrier CNA has appointed Joel Townsend as senior vice president, Claim, responsible for claims customer service for CNA’s global Management Liability, Financial Institutions...
Mar 30 2016 // Insurance payouts from the chemical blasts at the Chinese Port of Tianjin last year could total up to $3.5 billion, reinsurer Swiss Re said on Wednesday, in what would be the largest ever man-made loss in Asia.The estimate...
Mar 29 2016 // A recent ruling by the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court undercutting so-called “opt-out” systems has set off a flurry of speculation about such systems, including whether this ruling signals the...
Mar 29 2016 // A Moscow-based hedge fund manager, his investment firms and two Paris-based funds have agreed to pay nearly $18 million to resolve a U.S. regulator’s claims that they engaged in insider trading using hacked press...
Mar 28 2016 // Three people from Wisconsin or Illinois who are charged with operating a car insurance fraud ring can be prosecuted in Iowa, even though they never set foot in the state, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.Police say the trio...
Mar 28 2016 // A Washington man is suing a California company, claiming its medical device used to treat aneurysms malfunctioned and caused him to suffer brain damage.The Penumbra Coil 400 was used to treat an aneurysm Dennis Montgomery...
Mar 24 2016 // Insurers that are not already using the data from their telematics programs for claims would be wise to do so early in their adoption of telematics as the task only becomes more difficult as more data is collected,...
Mar 23 2016 // The Senate Business and Commerce and the House Insurance Committees of the Texas Legislature have requested data from the Texas Department of Insurance related to weather-related property claims, the incidence of lawsuits...
Mar 23 2016 // An insurer trade group says it estimates that damage caused by hailstorms that rolled through the Fort Worth area last week will reach $600 million in auto and property claims.Mark Hanna, a spokesman for the Insurance...