Latest Claims Headlines
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Automakers See Takata’s Bankruptcy As Liability Shield In Air Bag Claims
Jul 18 2017 // The global recall of Takata Corp.’s defective air bags widened last week and the number of confirmed deaths rose, but legal experts said the bigger worry for car companies caught in the fallout is playing out in a...
Property Damage from June Storms in Omaha Area Could Hit $400M
Jul 17 2017 // Property damage claims from separate June storms in the Omaha, Neb., area could top $400 million. The Omaha World-Herald reports that an estimated 52,000 could be filed from June 16 and June 29 storms. State Farm...
Florida-Based Centauri Insurance Hires Gaul as Assistant VP of Claims
Jul 14 2017 // Centauri Insurance has hired Cindy Gaul as assistant vice president of Claims. Gaul will be responsible for contributing to the company’s focus on customer service orientation, accuracy, innovation and oversight in...
A.M. Best Revises Outlook to Negative for New York’s Country-Wide
Jul 12 2017 // A.M. Best has revised its outlook to negative from stable for Country-Wide Insurance Company, a family-owned auto insurance company based in New York, N.Y. A.M. Best also affirmed Country-Wide’s Financial Strength...
Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Claims Hold Steady But Defense Costs Rise
Jul 11 2017 // Most leading legal malpractice insurers saw their claims level off in 2016 although their cost to defend claims continued to escalate. A study by insurance broker Ames & Gough finds that while the number of new...
Grenfell Tower Insurer, Protector Forsikring, Raises Claims Estimate to $65M
Jul 10 2017 // The insurer of London’s Grenfell Tower, where at least 80 people died in a devastating fire, raised its estimate for property and liability insurance claims to 50 million pounds ($65 million) on Friday [July...
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Jul 10 2017 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton has named Jeff Henningsen as president of its Houston property/casualty insurance operation. Henningsen will take on an expanded leadership role in business development for the...
Florida’s Citizens CEO Gilway Responds to Claims About Managed Repair Program
Jul 7 2017 // The following letter to the editor was written by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. President, CEO and Executive Director Barry Gilway in response to an opinion piece from the Florida Association of Public Insurance...
Days of Cyber Insurers Avoiding Costly Claims May Be Numbered: Expert
Jul 7 2017 // Cyber crime insurers largely avoided costly claims from the recent attacks that hit business around the globe. The next global virus could change that. “It’s exceptionally likely that we will see an event over...
Federal Judge Permits Some VW Investor Claims Over Diesel Scandal
Jun 30 2017 // A federal judge in California on Wednesday allowed some claims to proceed by investors who sued Volkswagen AG over its diesel emissions scandal, but agreed to the German automaker’s request to dismiss parts of the...
New Jersey Man Charged with Insurance Fraud, Theft by Deception
Jun 26 2017 // A Middlesex County, N.J., man has been charged with insurance fraud and theft by deception for allegedly impersonating his deceased mother to obtain cheaper renters insurance under her senior-discounted policy and for...
Weed Warning: Legalizing Marijuana Tied to Rise in Crashes in 3 States by HLDI
Jun 23 2017 // Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that are about three percent higher overall than would have been expected without legalization, a new...
House Committee Adds 5 More Bills to Its Flood Insurance Reform Package
Jun 22 2017 // The House Financial Services Committee advanced five flood insurance proposals on Wednesday, adding to the two bills it passed last week. The House measures seek to reform and reauthorize the National Flood Insurance...
J&J Seizes Supreme Court Ruling on Out-of-State Cases to Fight Talc Cancer Claims
Jun 22 2017 // Johnson & Johnson is seizing upon a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from Monday limiting where injury lawsuits can be filed to fight off claims it failed to warn women that talcum powder could cause ovarian cancer. New...
QBE Warns Emerging Markets’ Division Hit by Higher Claims
Jun 21 2017 // Sydney-based QBE announced that its Emerging Markets’ division has experienced “significantly higher than expected claims activity during the first five months of the year.” As a result, this division is...
South Dakota Workers’ Comp Lawyers Say Insurers’ Plan Would Limit Worker Rights
Jun 19 2017 // Lawyers who represent injured workers in South Dakota are preparing for a proposal from the insurance industry that would limit their ability to pursue legal claims against insurance companies that are intentionally...
Cosby Still Faces Multiple Civil Suits
Jun 19 2017 // Although Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial ended in a mistrial on Saturday, his legal problems persist as he faces assault and defamation claims in civil lawsuits, where the bar for evidence is lower than in criminal...
Texas Attorney Indicted in Hail Claims Insurance Fraud Case
Jun 19 2017 // A Texas attorney on June 5 was issued a 16-count indictment on charges of organized criminal activity, legal misconduct and insurance fraud related to hail claims, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. R. Kent...
NICB Confirms Texas Tops in Hail Damage Claims
Jun 19 2017 // It’s no secret that Texas yearly suffers from an onslaught of all kinds of weather, particularly hailstorms. And from 2014 through 2016 the state topped the list for the number of insurance claims for hail damage,...
Report Claims 17 Deaths, Worker Abuse at World Cup Construction in Russia
Jun 16 2017 // Workers building stadiums for next year’s World Cup in Russia have faced repeated abuses and routinely gone unpaid for several months, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. At a stadium in Yekaterinburg, some...
