All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2015 // The indictment of a South Dakota man for falsely claiming he lost more than a hundred cattle during the autumn blizzard of 2013 could be the first such case from the storm, which devastated ranchers in the western part of...
Jun 15 2015 // California lawmakers advanced a bill that would intercept more insurance payments and use them to pay beneficiaries’ overdue child support.About a quarter of insurance companies now voluntarily participate in the...
Jun 15 2015 // In the last days of the Texas legislative session an insurance industry-backed measure that proponents said would help rein in litigation related to property insurance claims died in the House of Representatives.Passed by...
Jun 12 2015 // New York’s state Assembly has passed legislation that would let victims of medical malpractice file claims later than allowed now.Current law requires filing claims within two-and-a-half years after the act, omission...
Jun 12 2015 // Storms moving through multiple states at the end of May including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, have resulted in more than 9,000 claims already filed across multiple states for Farmers Insurance.Farmers expects to...
Jun 9 2015 // RSA, one of the UK’s largest commercial insurers, has promoted Suzy Tiffany to head of UK legacy, with effect from July 1, 2015.Working at RSA for over 10 years, Tiffany has held a number of roles including finance...
Jun 8 2015 // A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation last Thursday to boost protections for pregnant workers in response to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that revived discrimination claims by a former United...
Jun 8 2015 // State Farm says Georgia residents file the most claims for lightning strikes in the country. The insurer’s officials told WSB-TV that it paid more than $16 million for lightning-related claims in 2014. The owner of...
Jun 4 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report for the month of May. The report highlights the “powerful thunderstorms” that...
Jun 3 2015 // The outgoing director of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) says the program is a “melting iceberg” that is incapable of properly managing its various players including the private insurance carriers...
Jun 3 2015 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) announced that insurance losses from claims following from storms in April and May at A$1.551 billion [US$1.208 billion], as a series of severe storms hit eastern Australia.The ICA...
Jun 3 2015 // PICC Property and Casualty Co. Ltd., the insurer of a ship that capsized in China’s Yangtze River on Monday, and other insurers have sent teams to the site to settle claims in connection with what could be the...
Jun 1 2015 // A disaster declaration signed by Pres. Barak Obama will help citizens in Harris, Hays and Van Zandt counties in Texas as they begin to recover from violent storm systems that brought tornadoes, high winds and massive...
Jun 1 2015 // California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would intercept more insurance payments and use them to pay beneficiaries’ overdue child support.About a quarter of insurance companies now voluntarily participate in...
Jun 1 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency on May 18 mailed out its first round of letters to the National Flood Insurance Program policyholders who filed Superstorm Sandy-related claims, asking whether they want their claims...
Jun 1 2015 // Workers’ compensation claims costs in Texas have grown relatively slowly over a five-year period, according to a recent Workers Compensation Research Institute study of 17 states.The total average cost per claim for...
Jun 1 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) will not appeal the recent jury decision that found Deloitte & Touche not liable in the insolvency of Tampa-based Poe Financial Group following the unprecedented...
Jun 1 2015 // Max, Bella and their canine comrades cause more than one-third of all home insurance claims, adding $530 million a year to insurance costs.And while the number of claims is down, the cost of the average claim from dog...
May 29 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) last week sent out its first round of letters to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders who filed Superstorm Sandy-related claims, offering them a chance to...
May 29 2015 // PMA Insurance Group in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, named Ray DiCello as vice president of field claims operations. DiCello reports to Kurt Schuhl, senior vice president and chief claims officer, PMA Insurance Group. In this...