All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has disbarred a Lafayette attorney accused of failing to properly handle a client’s case, then lying to investigators about it.Brad Thomas Andrus was formally disbarred, ordered to pay...
Feb 4 2022 // The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (IWCA) does not bar claims for statutory damages under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a Feb. 3...
Feb 3 2022 // Earth’s global average surface temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period, a new report shows.The average tied with 2018 as the sixth...
Feb 3 2022 // Allstate Corp. said fourth quarter 2021 net income plummeted 50% compared to results of the prior year quarter as auto claim frequency and severity increased.Adjusted net income for Q4 was $796 million compared to about...
Feb 2 2022 // A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to an arson and insurance fraud scheme that allegedly destroyed three houses from 2013 to 2019.Wandale J. Fulton, 40, was accused of conspiring with six others to buy houses,...
Feb 2 2022 // Stacey Macken fought more than eight years for equal pay. Her victory over BNP Paribas SA this week at a London court may encourage a wave of other women to come forward.In an unprecedented order for a UK investment bank,...
Feb 1 2022 // Insurers have paid or reserved $10.5 billion on all types of Hurricane Ida-related claims in Louisiana through the end of 2021, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said in a release Jan. 31.The Louisiana Department of...
Feb 1 2022 // Florida property/casualty insurers would have to produce claims histories that go back only three years instead of five when requested by policyholders, under a bill passed last week by the state Senate.Senate Bill 156,...
Jan 27 2022 // A property insurer must give up its underwriting manuals in a claims dispute, a Florida appeals court said Wednesday.In People’s Trust Insurance Co. vs. Theodore Foster, the 1st District Court of Appeals in...
Jan 26 2022 // The owners of high-end London restaurants The Wolseley and The Delaunay sued AXA Insurance UK Plc for as much as 4 million pounds ($5.4 million) over its failure to pay out on claims linked to the coronavirus...
Jan 26 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Over the past year, online client demand has maintained a steep upward climb. Due to the pandemic, cloud and integrated technology capabilities have been expanded to...
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas.The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
Jan 24 2022 // A judge has dismissed Ocean City from a federal lawsuit over a beach umbrella getting caught in the wind and impaling a woman.The lawsuit filed in June 2021 claimed that negligence on the part of the town and the rental...
Jan 24 2022 // Volkswagen AG agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with Ohio over claims the German automaker violated state laws by manipulating vehicle computer software in its vehicles to mask carbon dioxide emissions, the state...
Jan 24 2022 // In the war between restoration companies and insurers in Florida, contractors suing carriers in assignment-of-benefits claims is nothing new. And insurers have long argued that some construction firms are colluding with...
Jan 21 2022 // Two tankers have had their environmental and safety classification withdrawn by a U.S. company that provides such certification, after accusations by a U.S. advocacy group that they had shipped cargoes of Iranian oil,...
Jan 20 2022 // Navigators Insurance, part of The Hartford, does not have to cover most medical and injury claims from 2,000 workers who cleaned beaches after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal appeals court decided...
Jan 19 2022 // California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim volume continues to track with the state’s fluctuating infection trends, as the latest monthly count of COVID workers’ comp claims jumped 172% in December...
Jan 18 2022 // A Miami judge’s certification of a lawsuit against Florida’s largest utility company as a $10 billion class action, with damage claims from more than 4 million people who lost power in Hurricane Irma, could...
Jan 14 2022 // In the ongoing war between restoration companies and insurers in Florida, contractors suing carriers in assignment-of-benefits claims is nothing new. And insurers have long argued that some construction firms are colluding...