Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Corp. Admits Guilt, Settles Hacking Claims
Jan 19 2012 // The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Names New Controller and VP of Claims
Jan 18 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) recently named Pete Gise as controller and David Williams as vice president of claims. As controller, Gise manages financial reporting, accounts receivable processing and...
Workers’ Comp Official Claims Iowa Governor Illegally Cut His Pay
Jan 13 2012 // A state workers’ compensation commissioner has filed a lawsuit accusing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad of discrimination because the governor cut his salary by more than $30,000 after he declined to resign. Iowa...
UK Panel Seeks to Reign in Whiplash Claims; ABI, RSA Comment
Jan 13 2012 // A report from the UK Government’s Transport Select Committee targets the voraciously expanding number of claims for “whiplash,” i.e. soft tissue injuries, as badly in need of reforms. These types of...
Some Work Comp Claims in Michigan Must First Go to Mediation
Jan 12 2012 // Michigan workers’ compensation insurance regulators report that due to recent statutory changes some contested workers’ compensation claims will be assigned to mediation. Michigan Workers’ Compensation...
Florida Lawmakers Advance Brain Injury, Wrongly Imprisoned Claims Bills
Jan 12 2012 // A man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit and the brain-damaged and paralyzed victim of a crash with a speeding sheriff’s deputy who was late for work would receive millions in...
Australia’s QBE Slashes 2011 Forecast; Shares Dive
Jan 12 2012 // Australia’s QBE Insurance Group said on Thursday its 2011 net profit would fall by as much as 50 percent after record catastrophe claims and it would cut its final dividend, sending its shares down as much as a...
Lawsuit Claims Hazing on Mississippi High School Baseball Team
Jan 11 2012 // Members of a south Mississippi high school baseball team participated in a hazing ritual that left one teenager hospitalized after being held from behind and punched in the chest, according to a lawsuit filed by the...
Boston Lawsuit Claims DES-Breast Cancer Link
Jan 10 2012 // Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age...
Supreme Court Walmart Ruling Shakes Up Employment Class Actions
Jan 10 2012 // The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived up to the hype. Since the Court issued the Dukes decision in June, it has been cited by...
Judge Dismisses Most Claims in New Mexico Gay Bias Lawsuit
Jan 9 2012 // A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a New Mexico lawsuit by two women who alleged their daughter’s teacher discriminated against the girl because her parents are gay. Shannon Peterson and Jessica Bissell sued...
Flood Insurers Asked to Quickly Process Remaining Claims
Jan 9 2012 // U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) asked flood insurance companies to quickly process remaining claims from Irene and Lee. He says some 20 percent of the claims in Pennsylvania are still not processed. Federal flood...
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Jan 9 2012 // The board of directors of the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) re-elected Alaska Insurance Director Linda Hall as NIPR president during its Dec. 13, 2011, meeting in Chicago. Hall has been a member of the NIPR...
Insolvent Missouri Insurers to Be Managed by Farm Bureau
Jan 9 2012 // A Barton County, Mo., judge in December 2011 approved a proposal to allow Missouri Farm Bureau to assume operations of three small insurance companies that became insolvent after paying claims from the May 22 Joplin...
Australia’s Suncorp Updates Melbourne Storm, NZ Quake Loss Estimates
Jan 6 2012 // Australia’s Suncorp Group Limited’s preliminary estimates of the financial impacts of the recent Melbourne hailstorm and Christchurch earthquake are between A$200 and A$250 million [US$204.9 to US$256.1...
Aging Workforce May Not Be So Bad for Workers’ Compensation, Says NCCI
Jan 5 2012 // The aging workforce may not have the negative impact on loss costs that workers’ compensation insurers have feared. New research from the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) also...
IAG Updates Claims Estimates for Victoria Storms, NZ Quakes
Jan 5 2012 // The Insurance Australia Group has advised that its Australia Direct and CGU businesses have, “received approximately 20,000 claims following the hailstorms and related severe weather which occurred in Victoria around...
New Orleans Settles Claims Police Ignored Threats
Jan 4 2012 // The city of New Orleans has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that accused police of ignoring a woman’s complaint that her ex-husband threatened her two weeks before he killed her and a friend, a...
Honda Owner Bypasses Class Action in California, Hopes Others Follow
Jan 4 2012 // A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she is going solo in...
Earthquakes Prompt Record Insurance Claims in 2011
Jan 4 2012 // Insurance industry damage claims from natural disasters like the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand reached a record $105 billion in 2011, Munich Re , the world’s biggest reinsurer, said on Wednesday. The cost to...
