All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 4 2022 // Louisiana insurers have paid or reserved to pay $13.1 billion on Hurricane Ida claims through June 30, 2022, the state’s department of insurance announced this week.Policyholders have filed 460,709 claims of all...
Aug 4 2022 // The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) announced it is is streamlining its handling of claims for policyholders of insolvent insurers with advanced property estimating technology from Verisk.LIGA is using...
Aug 1 2022 // A U.S. banking regulator is urging banks dealing with cryptocurrency companies that they need to make sure customers know which of their funds will be insured by the government in case of collapse, and which have no safety...
Aug 1 2022 // The number of contingent business interruption claims more than tripled in 2021 as a deep freeze in Texas shut down much of the state’s power grid and a fire at a semi-conductor plant in Japan contributed to a global...
Aug 1 2022 // A state-chartered bailout fund is seeking to borrow $600 million after seven Louisiana insurers went bust following 2021’s Hurricane Ida.The Times-Picayune ‘The New Orleans Advocate’ reports that the...
Jul 29 2022 // Investigators from the Office of Insurance Fraud and Enforcement at the Louisiana Department of Insurance on July 22 issued non-resident public adjuster Kade Austen Mitchell and his agency a cease-and-desist order and...
Jul 29 2022 // Barclays Plc was hit with three discrimination claims in London from Black bankers who accused the lender and colleagues of treating them unfairly because of their race, after they raised concerns about internal business...
Jul 29 2022 // The lawyer who oversaw payments to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be appointed by a federal judge to estimate the total liability that Johnson & Johnson faces for claims that talc in its baby powder...
Jul 29 2022 // Did State Farm Insurance employ a clever device to reduce its payout – sometimes to zero – on thousands of property claims in Alabama?The insurance company has denied underpaying claims and other wrongdoing, but has...
Jul 22 2022 // The number of contingent business-interruption claims more than tripled in 2021 as a deep freeze in Texas shut down much of the state’s power grid and a fire at a semi-conductor plant in Japan contributed to a global...
Jul 21 2022 // In 2021, Florida’s domestic property insurers spent more than $3 billion on legal defense costs and containment – double the figure reported in 2016.That’s one jaw-dropping but not surprising takeaway from...
Jul 21 2022 // A Detroit-area water utility said Tuesday that it will deny flooding claims stemming from a damaging storm last summer based on an independent review that found the flooding was caused by the amount of rainfall and not a...
Jul 20 2022 // The number of travelers reporting stranded luggage this summer jumped 30% from 2019, according to Spanish insurer Mapfre SA.More bags are going missing as short-staffed airports and airlines struggle to keep up with...
Jul 19 2022 // A Meta Platforms Inc. rival claims in a federal trademark infringement lawsuit that its business has been obliterated after Facebook adopted its name.Closely held MetaX LLC said since October 2021, when Facebook rebranded...
Jul 19 2022 // A state-chartered bailout fund is seeking to borrow $600 million after seven Louisiana insurers went bust following 2021’s Hurricane Ida.The Times-Picayune ‘ The New Orleans Advocate reports that the Louisiana...
Jul 19 2022 // A claimant seeking to recover directly from an insurer on default judgments for claims against the insurer’s policyholder, must abide by the insurer’s policy terms that mandate arbitration, the New Jersey...
Jul 19 2022 // Tesla Inc. was hit by a lawsuit in Germany over potential privacy concerns linked to its car surveillance cameras and claims that buying its vehicles helps cut CO2 emissions.VZBV, the main German consumer association,...
Jul 18 2022 // Thirty women who had accused the Houston Texans of turning a blind eye to allegations that their former star quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions have settled their...
Jul 15 2022 // Mars Inc. has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out.In a proposed class action filed on...
Jul 15 2022 // Detroit agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a man who claimed police switched bullets to pin a murder on him in 1992.Desmond Ricks was released from prison in 2017 after 25 years, thanks to gun experts, law...