Florida investigators have charged a former Progressive Insurance claims adjuster with fraud, alleging that she used claimants’ identities to submit fraudulent auto claims, then pocketed almost $24,000 in settlements. Kiyuana R. Pasley, 41, of Homestead, was an adjuster at Progressive …
Investigators from the Office of Insurance Fraud and Enforcement at the Louisiana Department of Insurance on July 22 issued non-resident public adjuster Kade Austen Mitchell and his agency a cease-and-desist order and notice of suspension for improperly withholding, misappropriating, or …
Claims services provider Gallagher Bassett (GB) International has boosted its size and offering in the United Kingdom by acquiring third-party claims administrator Claims Settlement Agencies Ltd. (CSA). Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Established in 1990, CSA specializes …
One claim dispute I was involved with I refer to in seminars as “The Unimpeachable Case of What ‘Are’ Is.” It illustrates how a single word, even the tense of a verb, in a policy form can make all the …
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 is in the centre of the insurance …
Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent the last week serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts and multiple misdemeanor charges were filed against 195 …
A Philadelphia insurance adjuster has been jailed on charges he stole more than $700,000 from 29 successful claims made by people in the suburbs, including 10 stemming from property damage caused by Hurricane Sandy last year. Montgomery County District Attorney …
The deputy speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives has been sentenced to serve time in federal prison for tax fraud involving his insurance adjuster firm. Rep. John McCauley — the owner and co-operator of McCauley and L’Europa Public …
New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Acting Commissioner Ken Kobylowski is offering advice to consumers in an effort to help explain the Sandy claims process. The regulator said that so far, more than 458,000 New Jersey homeowner’s, auto, business …
