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Third Trial Over Zantac Cancer Claims Ends With Hung Jury

Aug 9 2024 // The third trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac ended in a mistrial on Wednesday when jurors could not agree about whether pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim was responsible for an Illinois...

Student-on-Employee Workers’ Compensation Assault Claims Drop: Gallagher Bassett

Aug 9 2024 // The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from Gallagher Bassett.This change comes after two years of...

Judge Dismisses Most Claims in Lawsuit Alleging Hair Discrimination at Houston High School

Aug 8 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who alleged that school officials committed racial and gender discrimination when they punished him...

Introducing CognilinkClaims: Sutherland’s Latest AI Breakthrough in Insurance Claims Management

Aug 8 2024 // Pittsford, NY. August 8, 2024 — Sutherland is excited to introduce CognilinkClaims, an innovative AI-powered solution that integrates Classic AI and Generative AI capabilities to redefine and streamline the entire...

GSK Wins Latest Trial Over Zantac Cancer Claims

Aug 6 2024 // GSK won the latest trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, as a jury on Monday found that the drug was not responsible for an Illinois woman’s illness, a company spokesperson...

Travelers: Costliest Claims Driven by Most Common Workplace Accidents

Aug 6 2024 // Analysis of 1.2 million workers compensation claims reveals the costliest claims are driven by the most common workplace accidents, according to Travelers 2024 Injury Impact Report.The data also shows first-year employees...

CrowdStrike Rejects Delta Air Lines Claims Over Flight Woes

Aug 5 2024 // CrowdStrike on Sunday rejected a claim by Delta Air Lines that it should be blamed for flight disruptions following a July 19 global outage sparked by a faulty update, and suggested it had minimal potential liability.Delta...

How Iran Oil Link Could Complicate Insurance Claims After Tankers Collide Off Singapore

Aug 5 2024 // A collision between two tankers off Singapore in July raises questions over insurance claims, as one of the vessels previously shipped Iranian oil, potentially complicating payments due to Western sanctions, ship-trackers...

Medical Worker Wants Home Insurance to Cover Her Against Patients’ Data Claims

Aug 5 2024 // A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says...

Hard Market Conditions Expected to Ease in 2025 as Claims Inflation Softens: Swiss Re

Aug 5 2024 // Hard market conditions in the global non-life insurance sector will continue this year, but will begin to ease in 2025, as general inflation and claims inflation conditions soften, according to Swiss Re in a report, which...

Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims

Aug 5 2024 // Progressive Insurance has agreed to a $48 million settlement with a class of 93,000 New York policyholders who claim the insurer underpaid their total loss claims on their vehicles.The $48 million represents approximately...

Hawaiian Electric Settles Fire Claims as Part of $4 Billion Deal

Aug 2 2024 // The parties involved in Lahaina wildfire lawsuits against the state of Hawaii, Maui County and utilities are close to a global settlement of claims that will be worth a little over $4 billion, Gov. Josh Green told The...

Tennessee DCI Returns $9.5M to Policyholders in Mediated Claims Disputes

Aug 2 2024 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance so far this year has secured more than $9.5 million for policyholders whose insurance claims had been denied, the department announced this week. The payments, mostly from...

Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims

Jul 31 2024 // Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation system?It’s...

Minnesota Adds Stricter Guidelines for Rehabilitation Services in Work Comp Claims

Jul 30 2024 // Injured Minnesota employees who seek services from the Department of Labor and Industry’s Vocational Rehabilitation unit (VRU) while their disputed workers’ compensation claim goes through the litigation...

Morgan & Morgan Vows to Fight Proposed Class Action on ‘Botched’ Injury Claims

Jul 24 2024 // Morgan & Morgan calls itself the nation’s largest injury law firm, with offices in most states. But perhaps the Orlando-founded firm has grown too big, too quickly, suggests a proposed class-action lawsuit that...

People Moves: WTW’s Risk & Broking Unit Names Marsh’s Clarke as President, Garrard Appointed Chair; Everest Names McBride, Garcia for Key Claims Roles

Jul 22 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurance broker WTW and the re/insurer Everest Group.A summary of these new hires follows here. WTW’s Risk & Broking Unit Names Marsh’s...

Insurers Face Business Interruption Claims After Global Tech Outage

Jul 22 2024 // Insurers could face a raft of business interruption claims after a worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday, insurance industry experts said.A software update by global cybersecurity firm...

Hard Market Conditions Expected to Ease in 2025 as Claims Inflation Softens: Swiss Re

Jul 18 2024 // Hard market conditions in the global non-life insurance sector will continue this year, but will begin to ease in 2025, as general inflation and claims inflation conditions soften, according to Swiss Re in a report, which...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Manufacturer’s COVID-19 Claims

Jul 16 2024 // A Connecticut-based manufacturer has been denied another opportunity to seek $100 million in insurance coverage for business losses it claims it sustained because of the COVID-19 virus.Amphenol Corp.– a manufacturer of...