All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 9 2019 // A report from carrier State Farm shows it paid $123 million dollars for 3,280 dog bite and injury claims, last year, a decrease of 9 percent compared with the number of dog bite claims in 2017 and a decrease of 7 percent...
Apr 9 2019 // Dogs remain the undisputed champions at generating insurance claims, while deer, birds and cats are contributing their share of mayhem as well. But according to a review of 470,000 insurance claims over five years by...
Apr 9 2019 // BevCap Management in McKinney, Texas, has added Curtis Hoppe as director of Claims and Risk Management.Hoppe brings over 24 years of professional experience in auto liability, general liability and workers’...
Apr 9 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of March 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Apr 8 2019 // American International Group, acting under a homeowner’s insurance policy it issued for comedian Bill Cosby, has settled defamation claims filed by seven women against the entertainer.Terms of the settlements were...
Apr 7 2019 // An Arkansas judge has rejected a request to dismiss the state’s lawsuit against three drugmakers that alleges they made false marketing claims about the benefits and risks of opioids, contributing to an increase in...
Apr 5 2019 // The state of Oklahoma narrowed its case against drug makers including Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Allergan Plc, dropping fraud and other allegations while pressing ahead with a...
Apr 5 2019 // Laws intended to reduce malpractice litigation by protecting doctors who want to apologize don’t work, according to a new Vanderbilt analysis of proprietary insurance data.It turns out people sue for money and an...
Apr 4 2019 // CompWest has promoted Lila Morones to director of Claims.Morones has been with the company for 11 years. She has 28 years of insurance industry experience. In addition to CompWest, Intercare Insurance, Morones has worked...
Apr 4 2019 // The frequency and severity of insurance claims in the U.S. renewable energy market have significantly increased over the last five years, meaning insurers and asset owners must reset their benchmark for renewable energy...
Apr 3 2019 // A New York judge last week dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by former Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine against the company last year.Levine was the Met’s music or artistic director from 1976-2016,...
Apr 2 2019 // A Northern California jury ordered Chevron Corp. to pay the families of two brothers who died of cancer a combined $21.4 million after concluding the company failed to properly warn the men about the dangers of a toxic...
Apr 1 2019 // Worley Claims Services LLC has acquired Eugene, Ore.-based Alacrity Renovation Services LLC from Lowe’s Companies Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Worley, based in Fishers, Indiana, is a provider of...
Apr 1 2019 // Two recent studies underscored the significance of misdiagnosis as a source of medical malpractice claims.Coverys, a malpractice carrier based in Boston, reported that a review of 1,800 closed claims against physicians...
Apr 1 2019 // The importance of drones and aerial imagery rose to a new level in the wake of 2018 natural catastrophes as insurers made them an integral part of their disaster recovery procedures, particularly following the hurricanes...
Apr 1 2019 // In last month’s column, I enumerated seven factors that enable one to avoid or prevent claim disputes:(1) Having a good historical perspective of the industry; (2) Understanding and embracing two foundational...
Mar 29 2019 // Michigan’s mandatory fee to cover unlimited medical benefits for catastrophically injured drivers is rising to a record $220 per vehicle, which is more than double what it was a decade ago.The Michigan Catastrophic...
Mar 28 2019 // A Houston-area petrochemical storage company that was heavily damaged by fire has received hundreds of compensation claims from residents seeking lost wages and other damages, a company executive said.Brent Weber, a senior...
Mar 27 2019 // Jacksonville, Fla.-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has appointed Dan Dupre as vice president of Claims.Dupre succeeds Tim Bone, MedMal Direct’s co-founder and chief claims officer, who retired on Jan. 1, 2019. Bone...
Mar 25 2019 // Claims veteran Steve Robson has joined Willis Re as head of London Market Reinsurance Claims, effective immediately. He brings extensive client-side experience and perspectives, and supports the closer alignment of the...