All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2020 // Virus-related claims from just over 500 small South African firms battling insurers who have rejected them are worth up to 4 billion rand ($232 million), the firm representing the businesses has calculated.Loss adjustment...
Jul 2 2020 // Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. agreed to pay $678 million to resolve a whistle-blower case accusing the company of paying kickbacks to thousands of doctors who prescribed its drugs and wooing them with lavish dinners and...
Jul 1 2020 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), the industrial insurer of Allianz Group, is embarking on restructuring program, designed “to regain profitability and market leadership in the corporate and specialty...
Jun 26 2020 // While Bayer AG said it took a major step toward wrapping up litigation over its Roundup weedkiller with a settlement of almost $11 billion, the company still faces about 30,000 unresolved cancer claims that could cost...
Jun 25 2020 // FRANKFURT/NEW YORK— Seeking to forestall further claims, Bayer AG is taking a risky bet that an independent scientific review will ultimately show that its widely used weed killer Roundup does not cause cancer, legal...
Jun 24 2020 // FRANKFURT/NEW YORK- Bayer AG, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weedkiller Roundup caused cancer, resolving...
Jun 24 2020 // Lyft Inc. has agreed to settle allegations that it violated federal law when some of its drivers refused to give rides to people using folding walkers or collapsible wheelchairs in the Los Angeles area, the U.S....
Jun 24 2020 // Chicago, IL, June 24, 2020 – Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (“PPCI”) has announced its debut into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts commercial auto market as an admitted carrier specializing...
Jun 23 2020 // Global Risk Solutions Inc., a provider of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, has expanded its marine claims capabilities with the addition of two claims executives.Peter Wiswell and Joe Daneman...
Jun 22 2020 // With an industry overall combined ratio for 2019 hovering just below 100, and individual lines like long-tail liability moving 10 points over breakeven, the U.S. commercial lines market has “plenty of room for...
Jun 22 2020 // Florida’s state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has joined a chorus of insurance companies accusing the Strems Law Firm of lawsuit abuse. Citizens says it has lost millions of dollars due to an alleged scheme...
Jun 18 2020 // An insurer fighting business income claims from restaurants is arguing in part that there is no coverage because businesses were allowed to provide takeout and delivery service during lockdowns.Society Insurance, based in...
Jun 17 2020 // Arkansas’ attorney general has sued Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker over his promotion of a product falsely touted as a cure for the illness caused by the coronavirus.Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed the...
Jun 17 2020 // An investor lawsuit against a Utah company alleges its principals falsely claimed its coronavirus diagnostic test was “100% accurate” and before doubts about the claim became widely reported, directors and...
Jun 15 2020 // Dan Gutlovics did a lot of virtual hand holding during the first days of the violent protests in Minneapolis and St. Paul following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25.Gutlovics,...
Jun 15 2020 // As the insurance industry faces litigation and questions over virus-related claim denials, it could soon be dealing with another business income hurdle due to the civil unrest that has taken place in many U.S. cities...
Jun 15 2020 // An agent who is a client of mine asked me, “Do you really think any business owner is truly happy with their agent or insurance company today?” Good question. Having to tell the public over and over and over,...
Jun 12 2020 // Atlanta-based global insurance claims management firm McLarens reported it has acquired London-based Lloyd Warwick International (LWI), a provider of global specialty loss and insurance adjusters.McLaren purchased the firm...
Jun 12 2020 // A South African regulator is studying insurance contracts after customers complained that claims related to the coronavirus were unfairly rejected.One outcome from the process could include an order from the Financial...
Jun 12 2020 // U.S. property and casualty insurers have cast the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented event whose massive cost to small businesses they are neither able nor required to cover.The industry has warned it could cost them...