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Baltimore County to Pay $1.1M to Settle Church’s Religious Bias Claims

May 3 2021 // Baltimore County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a religious discrimination lawsuit over a county board’s denial of a church’s expansion plan.The Baltimore Sun reports that the county and Hunt Valley...

People Moves: Argo’s Grange Joins B&B’s Programs; Bridge Names Zurich’s Batta; Liberty Mutual Promotes Rhodes in Claims

May 3 2021 // Grange Replaces Heath at B&B’s National Programs UnitJeff Grange has been named president of Tampa Programs, part of Brown & Brown National Programs, which includes the Dental Protector Plan, Lawyers...

Swiss Re Scores Profit Despite COVID Death Claims, Catastrophe Losses

May 3 2021 // Swiss Re reported consolidated net income of USD 333 million in the first quarter of 2021, despite heightened losses in its life and health reinsurance business related to COVID and property and casualty reinsurance losses...

Paid Claims from Texas Winter Storm Up to $1.7 Billion

May 3 2021 // As of late March, Texas policyholders had filed 386,108 property and auto insurance claims related to the winter storm that blanketed the state in mid-February.That number reflects preliminary results from a data call...

Traffic Returning to Roadways, But Claims Patterns May Shift Permanently

May 3 2021 // The number of cars on US roads is returning to normal as states ease COVID-19 restrictions, but that doesn’t necessarily mean claims frequency and severity will return to historic patterns.Metromile, a San...

Judge Wants NRA to Name Insurance Witnesses in Claims Against New York

Apr 30 2021 // A judge ordered the National Rifle Association to provide the names Lloyd’s of London agents or employees who the gun rights group says have information backing its claim that New York’s insurance regulator...

Supreme Court Smacks Down Pro Wrestlers’ Appeals on Head Injury Claims

Apr 27 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeals of several former pro wrestlers who claimed in lawsuits that World Wrestling Entertainment failed to protect them from repeated head injuries that led to...

Are Brokers in for a Tsunami of Pandemic- Related E&O Claims in 2021?

Apr 27 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Worldwide Facilities, an Amwins Company. In November 2020, attendees of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s first-ever virtual conference warned insurance...

California Man Charged for Scheme Involving Lost Cellphone Claims

Apr 26 2021 // Thein Kevin Nguyen, 31, of Sacramento, Calif., has been charged with one felony count of fraud for allegedly running a scam where he reportedly filed 35 fraudulent cell phone loss claims, collected the proceeds from the...

New York Launches Injured Workers Legal Assistance Project to Assist with Comp Claims

Apr 26 2021 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has launched its first-ever legal assistance project to help injured workers obtain medical treatment, the Injured Workers Legal Assistance Project (IWLAP).Now, injured...

New York City Lawsuit Claims Exxon, BP, Shell Mislead Over ‘Cleaner’ Fuels

Apr 23 2021 // New York City on Thursday sued three major oil companies and the top industry trade group in state court, arguing that the companies are misrepresenting themselves by selling fuels as “cleaner” and advertising...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear to Pay $2.6M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Apr 22 2021 // Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc. and the Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Inc., collectively referred to as Massachusetts Eye and Ear, have agreed to pay...

With Claims Rising, Cyber Insurers Need More Than Sizable Rate Increases: Fitch

Apr 20 2021 // Cyber insurance underwriters are reporting substantially higher claims losses in 2020 than in prior years and as a result face increasing profit pressure.insurers will have to achieve both significant premium rate...

Insurers Have Paid Nearly $1.7B Property, Auto Claims from Texas Winter Storm

Apr 19 2021 // As of late March, Texas policyholders had filed 386,108 property and auto insurance claims related to the winter storm that blanketed the state in mid-February.That number reflects preliminary results from a data call...

Report: 44K-Plus Workers’ Comp COVID-19 Claims Filed in Texas by Mid-February

Apr 19 2021 // An updated report on workers’ compensation claims in Texas related to COVID-19 shows that insurance carriers had reported more than 44,000 COVID-19 claims and 200 fatalities to the state’s workers’...

Farmers Insurance to Pay $25M in Settlement Over Oklahoma Earthquake Claims

Apr 19 2021 // Oklahoma has reached a $25 million settlement with Farmers Insurance over the company’s handling of earthquake claims, state officials say.Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter and Insurance Commissioner Glen...

The Hartford Offers $650M to Settle Boy Scouts Abuse Claims

Apr 16 2021 // The Hartford disclosed it has agreed to pay $650 million to settle sexual abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America associated with policies mostly issued in the 1970s.According to the insurer, the agreement is with...

Understanding Florida’s Sweeping New Immunity Law for COVID-19 Claims

Apr 15 2021 // Florida became one of the first states in the country last month to pass and sign into law a statute directed toward providing immunity to businesses for COVID-19 related lawsuits. To be clear, the law does not prevent all...

California Fire Victim Trust Has Received 250K Claims So Far

Apr 14 2021 // The Fire Victim Trust, established to pay California wildfire victims on July 1, 2020, has received 40,000 claims questionnaires representing more than 70,000 claimants and roughly 250,000 individual claims, according to...

Juul Labs Fails to Knock Out Racketeering Claims in Lawsuits About Marketing Conduct

Apr 14 2021 // Juul Labs Inc. failed to knock out racketeering claims in lawsuits accusing it of deliberately targeting teenagers, as individual founders and directors of the e-cigarette maker became the new focus of the litigation.Most...