All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
Oct 30 2019 // We received this question recently.I have inherited an account where the primary CGL was written on an occurrence form and the excess liability was written on a claims-made form. Can you help explain why this isn’t a...
Oct 29 2019 // PG&E Corp. told a judge it’s willing to extend the deadline for victims of wildfires caused by the utility’s equipment to file claims in its bankruptcy.U.S. District Judge James Donato criticized the...
Oct 25 2019 // The nine tornadoes that hit the Dallas, Texas-area over the weekend have caused an estimated $2 billion in damage, an insurer trade group says, making it the costliest tornado loss in Texas history.The Insurance Council of...
Oct 25 2019 // Insurance adjusting firm CNC Catastrophe & National Claims has added George Kattermann as senior vice president of Claims Operations.He joins the team with more than 30 years of experience in catastrophe claims and...
Oct 24 2019 // Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor...
Oct 24 2019 // DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” to its liabilities, DuPont’s former chief executive officer said, sending Chemours stock up sharply.Ellen...
Oct 24 2019 // The head of recently shuttered Florida Specialty Insurance Co. says that claims by Florida’s insurance regulator that the company is insolvent are untrue.The company’s CEO, Susan Patschak, argues...
Oct 23 2019 // Reinsurers’ earnings are likely to see further erosion in 2019 after another year of major catastrophe losses, which is prolonging the positive momentum for reinsurance pricing, according to AM Best.“Three...
Oct 23 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court let government officials press ahead with three lawsuits that accuse more than a dozen oil and gas companies of contributing to climate change.Without comment or published dissent, the high court...
Oct 22 2019 // The Travelers Companies reported net income of $396 million for the third quarter compared to $709 million in the prior year quarter.Core income in the current quarter was $378 million compared to $687 million in the third...
Oct 21 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
Oct 18 2019 // Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million to settle 41 states’ claims that it misrepresented the risks of vaginal-mesh products used to bolster sagging organs and treat incontinence in women.A group of state...
Oct 17 2019 // It’s been just over a year since Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle, devastating the region as a Category 5 storm with 161-mph winds and causing more than $7.2 billion in estimated insured...
Oct 16 2019 // Richard Giller has joined Pillsbury’s insurance recovery and advisory team in Los Angeles, Calif. Giller’s practice is concentrated on the recovery of insurance benefits on behalf of both corporate and...
Oct 16 2019 // Bayer expects the number of claims in the United States related to Roundup herbicide to have surged in the third quarter, as the German drugs and pesticides maker tries to reach a settlement after earlier court rulings...
Oct 16 2019 // A nudge into the market by carriers offering private flood insurance is becoming more of a shove, which might bring new opportunities for claims adjusters and maybe create a more efficient claims process along the way.An...
Oct 14 2019 // Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse.Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug...
Oct 8 2019 // An Iowa pork processing plant is working to address Micronesia’s concerns about the treatment of some of its citizens who work at the plant.Seaboard Triumph Foods said that it follows all employment laws and it is...
Oct 8 2019 // A lawyer for the committee representing wildfire victims in the bankruptcy of PG&E Corp said at a hearing on Monday that the committee sees $13.5 billion as the cost to the power provider for paying claims of the...