Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Illinois-Based RLI Promotes 4 in Claim Department
Feb 5 2015 // Specialty insurer, RLI Corp., based in Peoria, Ill., has promoted several leaders within the claim department. Don Driscoll, vice president, claim, has been promoted to vice president, chief claim officer. Driscoll will...
Top 10 Employment Discrimination Claims
Feb 4 2015 // While charges of employment discrimination against employers are declining overall, claims alleging retaliation against an employee for involvement in a complaint reached a record high in fiscal year 2014. According to an...
Fraud Adds Up to 17% to Auto Insurance Injury Claims: IRC
Feb 4 2015 // A new study estimates that fraud and claim “build-up” add between $5.6 billion and $7.7 billion in excess payments to auto injury claims paid in the United States. The excess payments represented between 13...
Few Claims Reported From Winter Storm Juno
Feb 2 2015 // Winter Storm Juno — a blizzard that swept through the Northeast during the last week of January and brought record and near-record snowfalls and high winds — has resulted in relatively few insurance claims so...
GM Pays 130 Claimants Before Ignition Switch Filing Deadline
Feb 2 2015 // General Motors Co.’s compensation chief for ignition-switch accidents paid 130 victims ahead of his Jan. 31 deadline, confirming 51 deaths to date, out of a total of 4,180 claims. Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, speaking...
Top Vehicle Claims Trends from 2014
Jan 30 2015 // The top five states in which a person was most likely to file an auto claim last year were all on the East Coast. December had the lowest volume of all vehicle claims of any month. Those facts are just two of those mined...
Ohio’s Westfield Insurance Expands Responsibilities of Leadership Team
Jan 30 2015 // Westfield Insurance, a super-regional property/casualty insurance carrier based in Westfield, Ohio, announced the following changes to its leadership team: Mike Prandi has been named to the new role of insurance operations...
California Suit Against Boy Scouts Could Reveal Sex Abuse Claims
Jan 27 2015 // A sex abuse case claiming negligence against the Boy Scouts is getting underway in California and will include the use of previously undisclosed information from “perversion” files kept by the organization. The...
South Carolina Paid $5 Million in Claims for Bad Roads
Jan 27 2015 // South Carolina has paid more than $5 million for damages from the state’s roads in the past year. The Greenville News reported that documents it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed the state spent...
Claim Concepts & Solutions – CC&S is pleased to announce the formation of its sister company Recovery Concepts & Solutions, LLC – RC&S, providing Expert Subrogation & Tort Recovery
Jan 27 2015 // CC&S is a premier national auditing group providing specialized audits to the risk industry including, best practices, reserve adequacy, inventory evaluations, claim file audits and inventory reduction concepts and...
TWIA Legislative Recommendations Address Funding, Depopulation
Jan 26 2015 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state-created insurer that provides property coverage for wind and hail in 14 coastal counties and parts of Harris County, has submitted a report to the Legislature with...
Senior Market Presents Opportunities for Young Agent Specialists
Jan 23 2015 // The graying of America could be a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs, including young insurance producers. As the nation’s population continues to gray, the people who work in the many businesses and...
Legislative Focus for Texas Windstorm Insurer: Funding, Depopulation
Jan 22 2015 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state-created insurer that provides property coverage for wind and hail in 14 coastal counties and parts of Harris County, has submitted a report to the Legislature with...
WCIRB: Continued Increase in California Claim Frequency
Jan 20 2015 // Workers’ compensation indemnity claim frequency in California has continued to rise unlike in most other states, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The WCIRB recently...
Minnesota Diocese Files Chapter 11 over Sexual-Abuse Claims
Jan 20 2015 // The Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis is the 12th U.S. diocese to seek bankruptcy protection to deal with sexual-abuse claims. The Chapter 11 filing on Jan. 16 in St. Paul follows legislation passed by Minnesota...
Aon Sees Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Claims Dropping
Jan 19 2015 // Workers’ compensation costs and claims frequency in the healthcare sector are going down, according to a report that studied 1,1150 facilities in 11 states. Aon Risk Solutions’ Health Care Workers’...
Florida’s Citizens Settled Almost 70% of Sinkhole Claims in 2014
Jan 13 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has reached settlement agreements with more than 1,650 Florida homeowners to end litigation on sinkhole repair cases that was delaying critical repairs to their properties. As of Dec. 15,...
Top Trends in Employment Practices Liability Claims
Jan 12 2015 // Unpaid internships, illegal background checks, pregnancy and health-related employment discrimination continue to be the top trending employment practices litigation cases, according to industry experts. Claims costs are...
Columbia Insurance Group Promotes LeBlanc to VP, Claims
Jan 7 2015 // Columbia Insurance Group (Columbia), based in Columbia, Mo., has promoted Michael LeBlanc to be vice president of claims, a newly created position. Michael LeBlanc LeBlanc brings 31 years of claims experience to this new...
FEMA Found to Have Overpaid Florida Residents by $177M
Jan 7 2015 // The federal agency that provides grants to states following a major catastrophe is under fire for providing Florida residents an estimated $177 million in funds that should have been covered by private insurers. A recent...
