Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Homeowners Claim Costs On the Rise
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report. A new Insurance Research...
Homeowners Insurance Claims Cost Rising Rapidly: Study
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report. A new Insurance Research...
Homeowners Insurance Claims Cost Rising Rapidly: Study
Oct 8 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report. An Insurance Research...
Texas Supreme Court Takes Up Contractual Liability Issue, Again
Oct 8 2012 // Justices to Consider Questions Posed in Ewing Construction v. Amerisure One of the most fascinating aspects of writing the Legal Beat Column is that often issues that we discuss here seem to be “finally”...
IMA Adds 2 to Wichita Office Claims Team
Oct 4 2012 // Insurance broker IMA Inc. has hired Geoff Baker, claims manager, and Maranda Pike, claims advocate, in the company’s Wichita, Kansas claims office. As IMA’s claims manager, Baker will lead the claims department...
United Heartland Names Hobbs VP of Claims and Managed Care
Oct 4 2012 // United Heartland, based in New Berlin, Wis., has appointed Rick Hobbs as vice president of Claims and Managed Care. Hobbs joined United Heartland’s executive team and is responsible for creating, implementing, and...
Florida Approves 10.8% Rate Hike for Citizens; Also 21.4% for Sinkholes
Oct 4 2012 // Florida regulators have approved a 10.8 percent statewide average homeowners insurance rate increase and a 21.4 percent increase in sinkhole rates for the state-backed property insurer. Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty...
Old Claims Follow Hawker Beechcraft in Bankruptcy
Sep 30 2012 // A long-running legal fight involving allegations that Wichita, Kan.-based Hawker Beechcraft made false statements and misrepresentations in the sale of military aircraft to the United States is now dogging the...
N.Y.-Based Claims Management Company Invision Names Randazzo President
Sep 28 2012 // Invision, a national claims management company providing third party administration, claims auditing and other services, recently appointed Richard G. Randazzo as its new president. Randazzo brings three decades of...
D.C. Man Stages Burglary for False Claims, Gets Turned In by Roommate
Sep 27 2012 // Washington, D.C., authorities said a local man was sentenced to a year of supervised probation, a suspended sentence of three years and a $100 fine after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree insurance fraud. The...
Texas Mutual Adds Osmond as Claims Manager in Dallas
Sep 27 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has hired Timothy Osmond as claims manager in Dallas. Osmond will be responsible for management of a staff of 36 claims professionals in Texas...
Utah Worker Claims Wrongful Firing After Cat’s Survival
Sep 27 2012 // A woman who worked at West Valley Animal Shelter in Utah has claimed she was wrongfully fired after news broke about a cat surviving two euthanasia attempts. Karen Bird filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court saying...
CDI Settles Enforcement Action Over Wildfire Claims
Sep 26 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has settled with the New Hampshire Insurance Company and its authorized agent York Risk Services Group Inc. for claims processing. The $285,000 settlement is a result of New Hampshire...
Homeowners Insurance Claims Cost Rising Rapidly: Study
Sep 26 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report. A new Insurance Research...
Court Revives Ex-Chrysler Executives’ Age Bias Claims
Sep 26 2012 // Hundreds of former Chrysler LLC executives claiming they lost retirement benefits because of age bias can sue the company’s former parent Daimler AG, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday. More than 450 former auto...
Calif. Lawsuit Claims Discrimination by In-N-Out Chain
Sep 24 2012 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of two black men in Oakland, Calif. claims In-N-Out Burger didn’t hire them because of their race and age. The suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court asks a judge to order the...
Q&A: Valuing Sexual Abuse Claims Not Simple
Sep 20 2012 // Penn State already faces four lawsuits over the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, and at least 20 people with potential claims have already surfaced. It’s unclear how many will press claims against Penn...
Crop Insurance Losses Mount in Midwest
Sep 18 2012 // Thousands of farmers are filing insurance claims this year after drought and triple-digit temperatures burned up crops across the nation’s Corn Belt, and some experts are predicting record insurance losses —...
Real Estate Matters Top List of Legal Malpractice Claims: Survey
Sep 17 2012 // For the first time since the American Bar Association began conducting surveys of legal malpractice insurance claims beginning in 1985, insurers reported a higher percentage of claims involving real estate than any other...
Louisiana Citizens: More than 13,000 Claims from Isaac so Far
Sep 17 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort says Hurricane Isaac has resulted in over 13,000 claims and they expect more to come. Vice President and Chief Claims Officer of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp....
