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Glatfelter Insurance Appoints Murray as President of Claims Management Business

Feb 25 2021 // Glatfelter Insurance Group (GIG), an American International Group Inc. (AIG) company, has appointed Conor Murray as president of Glatfelter Claims Management (GCM), effective February 8, 2021. He will report directly to...

AXA Reports 18% Drop in Net Income During 2020 with COVID Claims of $1.8 Billion

Feb 25 2021 // AXA reported net income of €3.16 billion (US$3.8 billion) during 2020, an 18% drop from €3.86 billion (US$4.7 billion) in full-year 2019.The combined ratio for AXA’s P/C business increased 3.2 points to 99.5%,...

Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims

Feb 25 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on...

Over $115M in Federal Flood Claims Paid in Louisiana After 2020 Hurricanes

Feb 22 2021 // As of Feb. 1, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) had paid out more than $115 million in flood claims in Louisiana in response to the 2020 hurricane season. That figure is up from the $110 million in NFIP payments...

Sovereign Claims Appoints Humphreys, Conolly to its Executive Team

Feb 19 2021 // Sovereign Claims LLC, an insurance risk management consultancy serving underwriters in the real estate development, general contracting and construction industries, has appointed John Humphreys and Neal Conolly to its...

Insurers Expect ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Claims from Texas Storm

Feb 19 2021 // U.S. property insurers are bracing for claims for damage from collapsing roofs, bursting pipes and lost business as Texas takes stock of its losses from a winter storm that has crippled its electrical grid.Insurers’...

Diocese in Minnesota Diocese Settles Abuse Claims for $21.5M

Feb 12 2021 // The Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota says it has reached a $21.5 million settlement with 145 individuals who were sexually abused by its clergy members.It’s the last Catholic diocese in the state to settle...

Investors Eye Windfall From Denied COVID-19 Insurance Claims

Feb 12 2021 // A growing market niche where investors profit from others’ legal troubles is getting a boost from Covid.Distressed-investing funds and litigation-finance boutiques are likely to be spoiled for choice after a landmark...

Irish Regulator Presses Insurers to Pay COVID-19 Claims Following Court Ruling

Feb 12 2021 // Ireland’s central bank governor told insurers to urgently honor and pay valid claims related to COVID-19 disruption, following a successful test case in court last week, or risk facing legal action by the...

Zurich 2020 Profit Drop of 8% Reflects Pandemic, Catastrophe Claims

Feb 12 2021 // Zurich Insurance’s new capital target disappointed market expectations on Thursday, even as claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic and higher losses from natural catastrophes bit less than expected into full-year...

Bond Insurer MBIA Agrees to Settle Mortgage Claims Against Credit Suisse

Feb 12 2021 // New York-based municipal bond insurer MBIA Inc.’s unit MBIA Insurance Corp. entered an agreement to settle a litigation it filed in 2009 against lender Credit Suisse and certain affiliated entities over property debt...

Massachusetts Superior Court Says Woman’s Medical Malpractice Claims Can Proceed

Feb 11 2021 // A Massachusetts superior court has ruled that a woman can bring claims for medical malpractice and unfair consumer practices against a hospice company for overmedicating her with narcotics and falsely certifying that she...

Federal Judge Sides with Chubb in Denial of Target’s Data Breach Bank Claims

Feb 10 2021 // Target Corp. has been denied its $138 million insurance claim against ACE (now Chubb) Insurance companies stemming from a 2013 data breach. A federal judge in Minnesota ruled the retailer had failed to prove that its...

2020 Hurricane Insurance Claims Up to $7.7B in Louisiana

Feb 8 2021 // Through the end of 2020 property/casualty insurers paid out or reserved $7.7 billion On claims of all types resulting from Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta in Louisiana, the state insurance department reported.The...

The Hartford Q4 Profit Dips Slightly on COVID Life Insurance Claims

Feb 5 2021 // Fourth quarter profit at The Hartford dipped slightly due in part to COVID-related group life insurance claims.Fourth quarter 2020 net income came in at $532 million, down 2% from fourth quarter 2019. Fourth quarter...

McKinsey to Pay $573 Million to States to Settle Opioid Claims

Feb 4 2021 // Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay at least $573 million to resolve claims by 40-plus U.S. states related to its role in the opioid epidemic and advice it gave to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, according...

Bayer Strikes $2 Billion Deal to Resolve Future Roundup Cancer Claims

Feb 4 2021 // Bayer AG struck a $2 billion deal to resolve a class action of future claims relating to allegations that its widely used weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the company and lawyers for U.S. consumers said on Wednesday.Bayer...

McLarens Acquires Dutch Engineering Claims Company Vanderwal & Joosten

Feb 3 2021 // McLarens, a global independent insurance services provider, announced the strategic acquisition of Vanderwal & Joosten (VWJ), a leading construction and engineering, environmental, liability, and agricultural loss...

Colonial Claims Acquires Premier Adjusting and Catastrophe Services of Florida

Feb 3 2021 // Colonial Claims LLC, a nationwide independent insurance claims service companies, has acquired Tampa area business Premier Adjusting and Catastrophe Services, Inc., a first and third-party claims handler for residential...

California Passes 103K COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims for AY 2020

Jan 28 2021 // The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported rose to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six...