Latest Claims Headlines

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Green Is Good, Right?

Mar 22 2010 // Insurers Monitoring Defects, Claims Tied to Green Building Products and Designs From wind turbines and fuel cells to vegetative roofs and bamboo surfaces, innovative green construction materials are showing up everywhere....

Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council

Mar 22 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...

American Claims Management Announces New Business Relationship With Starr Indemnity

Mar 15 2010 // San Diego, CA, 03/15/10 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) announced a new business relationship with Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity), a wholly owned subsidiary of Starr International...

Trucking Led To $480 Million in Calif. Workers’ Comp Payments

Mar 15 2010 // Injuries in the trucking industry led to more than $480 million in workers’ compensation medical and indemnity payments, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. The group, which released a...

Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council

Mar 10 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...

Why Public Adjusters Are Not Enemies of Independent Agents

Mar 8 2010 // Here’s why working with a public adjuster can be good for an independent insurance agency and for its customers: 1. After a disaster, insureds have hundreds or even thousands of questions and worries. In a...

Florida Cabinet Delays Hurricane Fund Assessments

Mar 7 2010 // The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund needs $710 million to continue to pay claims still coming in from 2005’s Hurricane Wilma but it is going to have to wait to assess policyholders to get those funds. The Florida...

E&O Insights: Personal Lines Accounts

Mar 7 2010 // Uncover Inland Marine Exposures for Protection and Sales Opportunities Although heavy personal lines accounts are generally more favorable from an errors and omissions (E&O) standpoint, there is no doubt the potential...

Army Bomb Expert Sues, Claims ‘Hurt Locker’ Movie Based on Him

Mar 5 2010 // An Army bomb disposal expert who served in the Iraq war is suing the makers of “The Hurt Locker,” claiming the Oscar-nominated film’s lead character is based on him and that they cheated him out of...

More Males Filing Sexual Harassment in Workplace Claims

Mar 5 2010 // John Pilkington’s boss wouldn’t take no for an answer. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Arizona, Pilkington says his male supervisor groped, fondled and...

Global Warming Litigation Just Getting Started; Costs Will Be Significant

Mar 4 2010 // Toward the end of 2009, it appeared that a number of issues with the possibility of creating significant political and social changes were on the verge of becoming law before stalling or imploding. One such issue with...

Restaurant Work Injury Claims Account for 4% of Calif. Workers’ Comp Benefit Payments

Mar 2 2010 // Restaurant workers accounted for 6.1 percent of all California job injury claims, but only 4.1 percent of the state’s workers’ compensation benefit payments from 2000 to 2008, the California Workers’...

House Panel: Toyota May Have Settled Tort Claims to Avoid Releasing Data

Mar 1 2010 // A U.S. congressional panel has found evidence Toyota routinely withheld company records it should have turned over in court and settled personal injury cases to avoid revealing key engineering data dubbed the “Books...

California AG Subpoenas Health Plans Over Claims Denials and Rate Hikes

Feb 26 2010 // Los Angeles-Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr., who has an ongoing investigation into possibly illegal practices by some California health insurers, has subpoenaed financial records and other documents from...

Florida Cabinet Delays Hurricane Fund Assessments

Feb 25 2010 // The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund needs $710 million to continue to pay claims still coming in from 2005’s Hurricane Wilma but it is going to have to wait to assess policyholders to get those funds. The Florida...

Maryland Claims Adjuster Convicted of Theft

Feb 24 2010 // A former claims adjuster for Progressive in Maryland has been sentenced for stealing more than $39,000 from the insurer, according to the state’s attorney general. Chae Hyong Chu, has been sentenced on a single count...

Global Warming Litigation Just Getting Started

Feb 21 2010 // Issue Will Have Serious Implications for Insurance Industry Toward the end of 2009, it appeared that a number of issues with the possibility of creating significant political and social changes were on the verge of...

Some Red Flags in Residential Arsons Fly Before the Fire

Feb 18 2010 // Financial stress is the number one reason residential dwellings are intentionally torched, but proving the act of arson is not that easy. In fact, Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics for 2007 show only around 6...

Contractor Seeks Claims for Property Damaged by Explosion

Feb 11 2010 // The mayor of the Connecticut town where a power plant was rocked by a fatal explosion says the general contractor building it is asking for property damage claims from neighbors. Middletown Mayor Sebastian Guiliano said...

Dos and Don’ts of Errors and Omissions Lawsuits

Feb 7 2010 // How to Respond and React When Threatened With an E&O Suit Ask any agent who has suffered through an errors and omissions (E&O) suit, and he or she will provide sage-like insight into the professional and even...