All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2019 // Lilian A. Vanvieldt, senior vice president, educational entities practice leader for the national insurance agency Alliant, has spent more than three decades insuring schools across the country. Her book of business spans...
Jul 17 2019 // A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from coastal states — including three running for president– unveiled a comprehensive flood insurance reform measure they see as an alternative to measures recently passed by a House...
Jul 17 2019 // Floridians are on alert as the state heads into peak hurricane season after three straight years of being impacted by major storms.Meanwhile, the Florida Panhandle continues its recovery from Hurricane Michael that...
Jul 17 2019 // Johnson & Johnson said that the health-care conglomerate will come out on the winning side of thousands of legal claims over its baby powder and opioid products.Last week, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Justice...
Jul 16 2019 // Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), with its subsidiary Continental Underwriters Ltd. (CU) and Fidelis Claims Service LLC (FCS), has hired Mark Taylor as senior manager of its Claims Division.Taylor will provide additional...
Jul 15 2019 // From April through mid-June, more than 230 claims stemming from flooding of the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas had been filed with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), according to the Federal...
Jul 15 2019 // In a viral State Farm commercial, Oscar Nunez, playing the role of a friendly, helpful insurance agent, disparages any insurance company that utilizes artificial intelligence in support of customer service...
Jul 12 2019 // PG&E Corp. is lobbying California legislators to allow it to issue tax-exempt bonds to help pay for past and future wildfire claims, according to people familiar with the matter.The bankrupt utility is pushing...
Jul 11 2019 // What’s worse: An incident that caused an insurance claim or the claims process itself? Ask a policy holder who has recently lived through a homeowners’ insurance claim process and the results might not be as...
Jul 10 2019 // Sedgwick Group announced this week that it has signed an agreement to purchase York Risk Services, continuing a long-term consolidation trend among third-party administrators.The purchase of York — which must be approved...
Jul 9 2019 // Visits to the California Earthquake Authority website reportedly increased by nearly 10 times normal following the largest earthquakes to hit Southern California in 20 years.The quakes over 4th of July holiday weekend were...
Jul 9 2019 // From April through mid-June, more than 230 claims stemming from flooding of the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas had been filed with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), according to the Federal...
Jul 8 2019 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has sued more than two dozen insurance companies, seeking to compel them to cover claims filed by people who say they were abused by clerics.Church officials anticipate that...
Jul 3 2019 // Lawyers for five men who claim an Arkansas priest sexually abused them more than four decades ago said that the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock has settled after mediation in what the attorneys believe is a first of its...
Jul 1 2019 // A Bergen County, N.J., woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for filing phony insurance claims for losses she purportedly sustained during Superstorm Sandy and for filing a false bankruptcy application to shed...
Jul 1 2019 // Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics tool that can quickly assess property damage after natural catastrophes and speed up claims payments.Roman...
Jul 1 2019 // Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and wants a judge to block the chemical maker’s requests for...
Jul 1 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability policy.The policy is designed to provide protection to owners, operators and...
Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...
Jun 26 2019 // A new federally led study of oil seeping from a platform toppled off Louisiana’s coast 141/2 years ago found releases lower than other recent estimates, but contradicts the well owner’s assertions about the...