All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2020 // A U.S. government program that compensates people who say they have been harmed by an emergency vaccine has paid out on fewer than 10% of claims, raising questions whether the process should be used to address any...
Aug 24 2020 // Baupost Group, the hedge fund run by Seth Klarman, received more than $3 billion in July from its bet on insurance claims against PG&E Corp. connected to a series of deadly California wildfires, according to people...
Aug 24 2020 // By the end of March 2020 people were wondering what the impact of COVID-19 on the upcoming hurricane season would be. There is no historical event to provide evidence for how the scenario might unfold, so we need to start...
Aug 24 2020 // As bad as the coronavirus pandemic has been for many insurance lines, personal automobile profits have soared thanks to reduced driving, as quarantines and shelter-at-home restrictions took hold across the United States...
Aug 21 2020 // A federal judge in Texas has dismissed an independent insurance agency from a lawsuit brought by a Dallas restaurant group seeking reimbursement for business income losses stemming from the civil authority enforced...
Aug 21 2020 // In an opinion that could inform coronavirus business interruption claims now before various courts, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida restaurant is unable to collect on its insurance for business...
Aug 21 2020 // A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed portions of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing Volkswagen AG of defrauding American investors in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions...
Aug 21 2020 // German drugs and pesticides group Bayer said on Thursday it will pay around $1.6 billion to settle the majority of U.S. claims involving its Essure birth-control device.The agreement follows a $10.9 billion settlement in...
Aug 20 2020 // A federal appellate court dealt a blow against litigation funding companies by ruling that the U.S. Justice Department can dismiss any False Claims Act lawsuits that it deems meritless without first proving that dismissal...
Aug 20 2020 // Reimbursement claims made against the town of Adams, Mass., by the town’s workers’ compensation insurer are not subject to the two-year statute of limitations established in a Department of Industrial Accidents...
Aug 20 2020 // Facebook Inc. won preliminary approval late on Wednesday from a federal court for settlement of a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users without their consent.The social...
Aug 19 2020 // The number of California workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 continues to climb, according to a new report compiled by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.Data from the Division of...
Aug 19 2020 // What is the best way to launch this article? I don’t know if I should say I’m itching for a fight or if it’s better to say that insurance carriers are misinterpreting coverage forms and I am trying to...
Aug 19 2020 // One of the biggest U.S. brokerages has been hit with a class action lawsuit after the oil price crash in April led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for its clients and allegations that the firm failed to...
Aug 18 2020 // U.S. states claimed they are owed $2.2 trillion to address harm from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP’s alleged role in America’s opioid epidemic, accusing the drugmaker in new filings of pushing prescription...
Aug 17 2020 // Insurance claims toward the massive explosion at the Port of Beirut have so far reached $425 million, according to a minister.Caretaker Economy Minister Raoul Nehme said 2,500 claims have been filed, according to the...
Aug 16 2020 // A federal judge has agreed with an insurer that a group of barbershops in the San Antonio, Texas-area have no basis for claims seeking coverage under their commercial insurance policies for business interruption losses...
Aug 14 2020 // Americans who suffer adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines that the U.S. is racing to develop will have a hard time getting compensated for injuries from the drugs.That’s because pandemic-related claims for...
Aug 14 2020 // A company that shreds scrap metal has agreed to pay the largest fine ever imposed under Rhode Island’s air pollution rules.Under a legal settlement announced Wednesday, Sims Metal Management will pay $875,000 and...
Aug 14 2020 // Daimler said on Thursday it has reached agreements costing nearly $3 billion to settle civil investigations by U.S. regulators and lawsuits from vehicle owners stemming from a long-running probe into software to cheat...