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New Alabama AG Says Oil Spill Claims Top Priority

Jan 11 2011 // Incoming Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says he will hold nothing back to make sure the state and its citizens are compensated for all losses because of last year’s massive BP oil spill. Strange said he will...

Storm Claims Continue Two Years Later

Jan 10 2011 // More than 700,000 insurance claims have been filed from Hurricane Ike, and two years after the storm claims continue to be reported. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) receives approximately one new claim...

It Figures

Jan 10 2011 // 3.7% Idaho workers’ compensation insurance rates will be increasing an average of 3.7 percent in 2011, according to the state Department of Insurance. The average rate increase is based on National Council on...

Lloyd’s Looks to Gov’t. Reforms to Reduce Skyrocketing Legal Costs

Jan 10 2011 // Lloyd’s leaders have long warned that the “compensation culture” is steadily increasing the costs of legal actions in the UK, as plaintiffs’ lawyers pursue more actions and seek larger recoveries...

American Claims Management Promotes Three to Senior VP

Jan 10 2011 // American Claims Management Inc. has promoted three of its employees from assistant vice president to senior vice president of their respective divisions. Dhara Patel is now senior vice president of Commercial Casualty....

Whistleblower Claims Against Toyota By Former Employee Dismissed

Jan 6 2011 // Toyota Motor Corp. won a victory against a former company lawyer turned whistleblower as an arbitrator dismissed several claims and awarded the company damages, according to a statement from the automaker. Dimitrios...

Illinois Begins Probe of Prison’s Worker Comp Claims

Jan 6 2011 // Illinois state insurance fraud officials have launched an investigation of a southwestern Illinois prison where nearly $10 million in worker’s compensation and paid medical leave have been paid out to more than half...

Study Says No-Fault Fraud A Major Problem in New York City

Jan 6 2011 // Nearly one out of every five no-fault auto insurance claims closed in the New York City area in 2010 appears to have elements of fraud, according to a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC). And as many as one...

Illinois Official Calls for Probe of Workers’ Comp Claims at Prison

Jan 4 2011 // The head of Illinois’ workers’ compensation commission is calling for an investigation of nearly $10 million paid out in claims to more than half the staff of a southwestern Illinois prison over the past three...

Toyota Says Subrogation By 7 Insurers for Acceleration Claims Is Meritless

Jan 4 2011 // Seven automobile insurance firms have followed Allstate Insurance Co. in suing Toyota Motor Corp. to recover money they paid in claims for car crashes blamed on unintended acceleration of Toyota vehicles. The...

Obesity Increases the Risk of Disabling Workplace Injuries

Dec 31 2010 // Recent research confirms anecdotal data that work-related injuries are far more costly if an injured worker is obese. In fact, a claim with an obese diagnosis can be 30 times to 60 times more expensive than a comparable...

UK Homeowners Insurance is Biggest Fraud Target; $3.55 Million a Day

Dec 30 2010 // Home insurance is now the number one target for insurance fraudsters according to the hundreds of fraudulent insurance claims exposed every day, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). To back up is...

Report: Questionable Insurance Claims Increased 12%

Dec 30 2010 // The economic crisis might have had a hand in pushing people to commit insurance fraud. However, it isn’t entirely to blame, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Nationwide, there has been a 12 percent...

Report: Some Insurers ‘Low-Balling’ Auto Insurance Claims for Bodily Injury

Dec 29 2010 // Some insurance companies that use computerized systems to process their claims are making unfair, “low-ball” claims offers to people injured in automobile accidents, according to a consumer advocacy group. The...

Oklahoma State Bar Association to Reimburse Client Losses

Dec 29 2010 // The Oklahoma Bar Association’s board of directors has voted to reimburse several Oklahomans who were the victims of deceased or dishonest attorneys. The association announced its Clients’ Security Fund will pay...

BP Oil Spill Fund Pays $43 Million in ‘Quick Pay’ Claims

Dec 28 2010 // The administrator of BP Plc’s $20 billion compensation fund has paid $43 million to residents of the U.S Gulf Coast who agree not to sue the company for damages stemming from the nation’s worst offshore oil...

Insurers’ Recent Success a Milestone in a Year of Chinese Drywall Litigation

Dec 23 2010 // A federal judge in Louisiana recently let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from those...

2 Years After Ike Texas Coastal Residents Still Filing Claims

Dec 22 2010 // Windstorm claims from Hurricane Ike continue to be reported more than two years after the storm made landfall. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) continues to average receiving at least one new claim every...

Feds Pursuing Fraud Charges Against Oil Spill Claimants in 5 States

Dec 21 2010 // A woman was indicted last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for compensation due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other individuals were also charged last week in...

The Hartford Selling Third Party Claims Unit for $278M

Dec 21 2010 // The Hartford said it has inked a $278 million deal to sell its third-party claims administration business, Specialty Risk Services (SRS), to Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. The Hartford said the deal is expected...