All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2019 // Topa Insurance Co. has named Kelly Yates assistant vice president of claims. Yates will be located in Topa’s Calabasas, Calif. office. Yates has oversight of Topa’s property and commercial auto business and its...
Jun 25 2019 // JetBlue Airways Corp. has sued Walmart Inc. for trademark infringement, in an effort to stop the world’s largest retailer from using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service.In a complaint filed...
Jun 24 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability (PARLL) policy which provides protection to owners, operators and developers of fixed...
Jun 19 2019 // PG&E Corp. will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the governments said on...
Jun 18 2019 // U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would prevent Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts, after the Chinese firm demanded that Verizon Communications Inc. pay $1...
Jun 18 2019 // Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot said the city will partner with Gallagher Bassett, an international public sector claims administrator, as well as Gallagher Global Brokerage Risk Program Administrators, to overhaul and...
Jun 17 2019 // The digital transformation of the insurance industry isn’t just for insurtech startups any more.At Allstate, 60 percent of claims are now filed with a cell phone application that allows policyholders to take photos...
Jun 17 2019 // It’s still early, but claims experience thus far in the cannabis insurance market is encouraging, according to one leading writer.“So far, we’re optimistic that we’re going to see that our...
Jun 17 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.The...
Jun 12 2019 // Two artificial intelligence providers — omni:us and FRISS — are teaming up to “supercharge” insurance claims management and fraud detection.omni:us is a provider of AI-based cognitive claims...
Jun 11 2019 // Following an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and damaging winds on June 9, thousands of wind-related claims have been filed in areas extending from Dallas through south central Texas, the Insurance Council of Texas...
Jun 11 2019 // The digital transformation of the insurance industry isn’t just for insurtech startups any more.At Allstate, 60 percent of claims are now filed with a cell phone application that allows policyholders to take photos...
Jun 11 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on...
Jun 11 2019 // Marijuana has been shown to help ease pain and a few other health problems, yet two-thirds of U.S. states have decided pot should be legal to treat many other conditions with little scientific backing.At least 1.4 million...
Jun 10 2019 // The Southern Baptist Convention gathers for its annual national meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadowing all others.Inside the meeting hall in Birmingham, Alabama,...
Jun 10 2019 // With half the UK’s workforce predicted to work remotely by 2020, employers will have to take greater care of their people working at home or face an increasing number of claims for muscular-skeletal disorders (MSDs),...
Jun 7 2019 // Global Risk Solutions, Inc., the Miami-based provider of claims adjusting and environmental risk management services, announced the opening of a London office.Located at Dawson House, 5 Jewry Street, London, the new office...
Jun 6 2019 // Insys Therapeutics Inc., grappling with the prospect of bankruptcy after its founder was convicted on racketeering charges, agreed to pay $225 million to settle U.S. claims that the drug maker illegally sold opioid-based...
Jun 5 2019 // State Farm said last week it had received over 6,000 homeowner claims and more than 5,000 auto claims related to severe weather that pummeled the Midwest on May 27 and 28.The company reported around 6,110 total homeowner...
Jun 4 2019 // A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a policy exclusion for invasion of privacy claims relieved an insurer of any responsibility for a $60 million settlement against a Boca Raton company for violations of the...