All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2025 // Oregon workers’ compensation claims fell in 2023 from the previous two years, a report from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services shows. The department received notification of 22,994 accepted...
May 8 2025 // Willis, a WTW business headquartered in New York City, appointed David Lofstrom as deputy regional leader, New England within corporate risk and broking (CRB) in North America.Lofstrom’s new position includes working...
May 8 2025 // A Long Island school district is accusing two insurers of ducking their responsibilities to defend and indemnify it against lawsuits by former students claiming they were sexually abused by an elementary school teacher...
May 5 2025 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt released data last month on the amount paid by insurance companies for Kansas storm damage claims in 2024. In 2024, reported storm claims totaled 56,778 and the amount paid out...
May 5 2025 // North Carolina authorities last week charged a man with 21 felonies, including insurance fraud and theft, after he reportedly stole identities and filed false auto claims with four insurance companies. Damain Rayshawn...
May 5 2025 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has issued a bulletin clarifying insurers’ obligations when using virtual claims adjustment systems to assess automobile damage.That guidance came in response to a...
May 5 2025 // Maryland’s insurance regulator has announced actions to settle a long-running dispute with Erie Insurance Group over a report on the insurer’s practices involving some urban agents and their insureds.The...
May 2 2025 // Last year, New York City settled 13,397 claims against it for a total cost of $1.94 billion, the most ever for one fiscal year, up from $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2023, the city’s financial monitor has...
Apr 30 2025 // Los Angeles County officials this week approved a $4 billion payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.The agreement reached on April 4 far surpasses a $2.6 billion settlement...
Apr 30 2025 // Global insured losses from natural catastrophes hit US$137 billion in 2024, following the 5%-7% annual growth rate that has been the norm in recent years, according to Swiss Re analysis.If this trend continues, global...
Apr 30 2025 // Mosaic Promotes Duggan to Lead North American ClaimsMosaic, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, named environmental and casualty risk specialist and former district attorney Thomas Duggan as the company’s claims head...
Apr 25 2025 // Insurers in the U.S. paid out about $1.6 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2024, according to data compiled by the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and State Farm.The number of dog bite and related injury...
Apr 24 2025 // Washington, D.C.-based BreachBits has received an investment of an undisclosed amount from Lloyd’s in what is the London-based global insurance marketplace’s third strategic innovation investment from among...
Apr 18 2025 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has issued a bulletin clarifying insurers’ obligations when using virtual claims adjustment systems to assess automobile damage.That guidance came in response to a...
Apr 15 2025 // Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday Clorox’s local unit had been fined A$8.25 million ($5.19 million) by the Federal Court over falsely claiming its GLAD kitchen and garbage bags were partially...
Apr 11 2025 // Willis, a WTW business headquartered in New York City, appointed Dom Spinelli as head of transactional insurance claims for North America. He leads the claims function within Willis’ Alternative Asset Insurance...
Apr 8 2025 // Insurance industry analysts, economists, and trade associations have continued to look at the potential effect of President Trump’s tariffs.About a month after Trump looked to impose steep tariffs on China, Mexico,...
Apr 8 2025 // Identifying the needs and pain points of customers and then developing solutions to better service them and other company partners—those are the most important promises that artificial intelligence and new technologies...
Apr 8 2025 // Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said.The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County...
Apr 7 2025 // Viatris said on Monday it would pay up to $335 million over nine years as part of a nationwide settlement to resolve opioid-related claims against the drugmaker.Shares of the Pennsylvania-based company, formed by the...