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Boating Accident Claims Lives of 2 Men in Illinois Lake; Girl Survives
Aug 21 2024 // MARSEILLES, Ill. (AP) — Two Indiana men have died and a 7-year-old girl has been found safe after the boat they were fishing from was found capsized on an eastern Illinois lake. Police responded Sunday to a 911 call at...
Australian Insurer IAG Says Rise in Claims, Third-Party Costs to Push Up Premiums
Aug 21 2024 // Insurance Australia Group said on Wednesday it expects premiums to keep rising because of a huge jump in loss claims and third-party costs for home and automobile repairs, sending its shares more than 3% lower. IAG said...
Harvard Contract Breach Claims Blaming Marsh for Its $15M Insurance Denial Filed Too Late, Judge Rules
Aug 19 2024 // After losing two bids to recover $15 million from its insurer for costs related to its failed legal defense of its admissions policy, Harvard University has now failed in a bid to hold its insurance broker Marsh...
Travelers: Costliest Claims Driven by Most Common Workplace Accidents
Aug 19 2024 // Analysis of 1.2 million workers’ compensation claims reveals the costliest claims are driven by the most common workplace accidents, according to Travelers 2024 Injury Impact Report. The data also shows first-year...
Insured Losses From UK Riots Will Be Manageable, With Claims Below £250M: Report
Aug 13 2024 // Insured losses from recent riots in the United Kingdom are expected to remain at manageable levels with a limited impact on insurers’ credit profiles, according to credit agency Morningstar DBRS, in a market...
Debby’s Florida Claims Already Near 12,000 as Yaworsky Says Market Is Strengthening
Aug 12 2024 // The number of Florida claims from Hurricane Debby, filed within five days of the storm, already is almost half of the number of claims filed from Hurricane Idalia in a three-month period. Debby claims by Friday had reached...
Third Trial Over Zantac Cancer Claims Ends With Hung Jury
Aug 9 2024 // The third trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac ended in a mistrial on Wednesday when jurors could not agree about whether pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim was responsible for an Illinois...
Student-on-Employee Workers’ Compensation Assault Claims Drop: Gallagher Bassett
Aug 9 2024 // The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from Gallagher Bassett. This change comes after two years of...
Judge Dismisses Most Claims in Lawsuit Alleging Hair Discrimination at Houston High School
Aug 8 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who alleged that school officials committed racial and gender discrimination when they punished him...
Introducing CognilinkClaims: Sutherland’s Latest AI Breakthrough in Insurance Claims Management
Aug 8 2024 // Pittsford, NY. August 8, 2024 — Sutherland is excited to introduce CognilinkClaims, an innovative AI-powered solution that integrates Classic AI and Generative AI capabilities to redefine and streamline the entire...
GSK Wins Latest Trial Over Zantac Cancer Claims
Aug 6 2024 // GSK won the latest trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, as a jury on Monday found that the drug was not responsible for an Illinois woman’s illness, a company spokesperson...
Travelers: Costliest Claims Driven by Most Common Workplace Accidents
Aug 6 2024 // Analysis of 1.2 million workers compensation claims reveals the costliest claims are driven by the most common workplace accidents, according to Travelers 2024 Injury Impact Report. The data also shows first-year employees...
CrowdStrike Rejects Delta Air Lines Claims Over Flight Woes
Aug 5 2024 // CrowdStrike on Sunday rejected a claim by Delta Air Lines that it should be blamed for flight disruptions following a July 19 global outage sparked by a faulty update, and suggested it had minimal potential...
How Iran Oil Link Could Complicate Insurance Claims After Tankers Collide Off Singapore
Aug 5 2024 // A collision between two tankers off Singapore in July raises questions over insurance claims, as one of the vessels previously shipped Iranian oil, potentially complicating payments due to Western sanctions, ship-trackers...
Medical Worker Wants Home Insurance to Cover Her Against Patients’ Data Claims
Aug 5 2024 // A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says...
Hard Market Conditions Expected to Ease in 2025 as Claims Inflation Softens: Swiss Re
Aug 5 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...
Progressive to Pay $48M to New York Drivers Over Underpaid Total Loss Claims
Aug 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...
Hawaiian Electric Settles Fire Claims as Part of $4 Billion Deal
Aug 2 2024 // The parties involved in Lahaina wildfire lawsuits against the state of Hawaii, Maui County and utilities are close to a global settlement of claims that will be worth a little over $4 billion, Gov. Josh Green told The...
Tennessee DCI Returns $9.5M to Policyholders in Mediated Claims Disputes
Aug 2 2024 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance so far this year has secured more than $9.5 million for policyholders whose insurance claims had been denied, the department announced this week. The payments, mostly from...
Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims
Jul 31 2024 // Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation...
