Most Popular Claims Headlines This Year

The most viewed headlines from our Claims Topic Page over the last year.

#1 Farmers Adjusters Cry Foul Over Workloads, Claims Handling in Letter to Regulators

Jun 20 2024 // Farmers Insurance officials this week said they have spoken with employees after receiving an anonymous letter, apparently from a group of in-house adjusters, accusing the insurer of understaffing and overworking claims...

#2 Florida Authorities Charge 4 in Fraudulent Roof Claims, Issue Warrant for Contractor

Dec 4 2023 // Florida authorities have announced the arrest of four people in connection with an alleged scheme to deliberately damage roofs in order to qualify them for insurance claims. And another contractor well known to insurers...

#3 Morgan & Morgan Vows to Fight Proposed Class Action on ‘Botched’ Injury Claims

Jul 24 2024 // Morgan & Morgan calls itself the nation’s largest injury law firm, with offices in most states. But perhaps the Orlando-founded firm has grown too big, too quickly, suggests a proposed class-action lawsuit that...

#4 Couple Staged Half Million Dollar Fraud Against Theater Nonprofit, Insurer Claims

May 21 2024 // Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. is suing a Connecticut couple the insurer alleges defrauded its insured, a Florida theater nonprofit, by using the organization’s checking and credit card accounts for more than a...

#5 4,800 Claims Handled by Unlicensed Adjusters in Florida After Irma, Lawsuit Says

Apr 25 2024 // Two south Florida lawsuits against property insurers argue that two major carriers employed a business strategy of hiring inexperienced or even unlicensed claims adjusters after storms, practices that have led to...

#6 Six Charged in Alleged $1M Auto Insurance Claims Scheme in Massachusetts

Feb 27 2024 // Six people have been indicted in connection with the alleged filing of fraudulent insurance claims through their auto body repair business in Everett, Massachusetts.Four of the defendants were arraigned this week in...

#7 Officials Say California Family Arraigned for Auto Insurance Fraud Filed 40-Plus Claims

Feb 2 2024 // Shannon Ninio, 60, of North Hills was arraigned for insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she and her husband, Moshe Ninio, allegedly stole customers’ personal information and...

#8 5th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Lawsuit Alleging State Farm Undervalued Total-Loss Claims

Dec 28 2023 // A federal appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to certify a class of plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleged State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. undervalued total-loss claims by Louisiana claimants.A...

#9 Officials Say California Family Arraigned for Auto Insurance Fraud Filed 40-Plus Claims

Feb 19 2024 // Shannon Ninio, 60, of North Hills was arraigned for insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she and her husband, Moshe Ninio, allegedly stole customers’ personal information and...

#10 Uber Sues Drivers’ Insurer Alleging Its Claims Practices Have Fueled Tort Litigation

Feb 20 2024 // Uber Technologies last Friday sued its drivers’ auto insurer for defense and indemnification regarding multiple lawsuits that are seeking to hold Uber vicariously liable for accidents involving some of its drivers in...

#11 Tallahassee, Atlanta Dodge a Bullet, But Thousands of Claims Are Expected

Sep 27 2024 // Hundreds of claims adjusters were set to move out across Florida, Georgia and western parts of the Carolinas Friday morning as Hurricane Helene brought high storm surge and 140 mph winds to a region that has faced three...

#12 Allstate Insurers Sue Hyundai, Kia to Pay for Claims From Defective Cars

Nov 14 2024 // A group of subsidiaries of Allstate have filed a subrogation suit against Hyundai and Kia to get back costs paid to insureds for damages when their cars suddenly erupted in flames.According to the lawsuit, now in U.S....

#13 Florida OIR Report Shows Indemnity Paid Was Much Higher for Litigated Claims

Jan 16 2024 // Stakeholders have continued to react to a recent Florida Office of Insurance Regulation report on the property insurance market, a report that underscored the impact that excessive claims litigation had on insurers but...

#14 Insurers Face Business Interruption Claims After Global Tech Outage

Jul 22 2024 // Insurers could face a raft of business interruption claims after a worldwide tech outage crippled industries from travel to finance on Friday, insurance industry experts said.A software update by global cybersecurity firm...

#15 Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims

Jul 5 2024 // Progressive Insurance has agreed to a $48 million settlement with a class of 93,000 New York policyholders who claim the insurer underpaid their total loss claims on their vehicles.The $48 million represents approximately...

#16 US Dog-Related Injury Claims Hit $1.12 Billion in 2023: Triple-I, State Farm Report

Apr 9 2024 // US insurers paid out $1.12 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2023 according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and State Farm.The number of dog bite and related injury claims was 19,062 in 2023, an...

#17 Lowe’s Scraps Some DEI Policies as Activist Claims a New Win

Aug 27 2024 // Lowe’s Cos. is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the latest American company to end such initiatives following a series of activists attacks on firms that promote DEI.The home-improvement...

#18 Report: Over 250,000 US Properties Have Repeated NFIP Claims

Sep 19 2024 // More than a quarter million U.S. properties have repeated claims for federal flood insurance, costing the National Flood Insurance Program billions of dollars in claims, according to new federal data compiled by the...

#19 Hard Market Conditions Expected to Ease in 2025 as Claims Inflation Softens: Swiss Re

Jul 18 2024 // Hard market conditions in the global non-life insurance sector will continue this year, but will begin to ease in 2025, as general inflation and claims inflation conditions soften, according to Swiss Re in a report, which...

#20 Update: Milton’s 152,000 Claims So Far Mean New Pressure on Reinsurance, Rate Hikes

Oct 15 2024 // Property Insurance claims from Hurricane Milton had topped more than 152,180 by Tuesday, with some $1.9 billion in estimated insured losses. That’s already more than the claims and losses reported for Helene, which...