Latest Claims Headlines
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Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
News Currents
Sep 24 2007 // Report: Insurers did not shift wind claims p:”Our sample revealed no evidence that wind damages were improperly attributed to flooding,” the Department of Homeland Security reported after reviewing 98 flood...
Need for lawyers PL coverage increasing
Sep 24 2007 // The perils facing employed lawyers have increased substantially in the past five years. Attorneys should know better than anyone, other than perhaps insurance professionals, about the perils that exist and the value of...
Progressive apologies for claims handlers’ privacy
Sep 24 2007 // The president of Progressive Insurance Co. issued a written apology regarding some over-zealous claims investigators in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported about an investigation in 2005 in which two private...
Eight major mistakes employers make when workers’ comp rates go down
Sep 24 2007 // Employers must view coverage more as a comprehensive risk management tool than necessity Throughout much of the country, declining workers’ compensation rates are music to employers’ ears. After all, that seems...
A policyholder bonanza: Texas Supreme Court decides Lamar Homes
Sep 24 2007 // The Supreme Court also disagreed with the district court’s common sense ruling that faulty workmanship that damages the property of a third party is a covered “occurrence,” whereas faulty workmanship that...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Sep 24 2007 // For an insurer, understanding climate change is a matter of understanding trends in risk and changes in those trends. For Wendy Baker, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Eight major mistakes employers make when workers’ comp rates go down
Sep 24 2007 // Declining rates act as blinders for many employers. With lower prices it’s easy to shift focus away from injury management and cost containment to other more pressing business matters. Throughout much of the country,...
Lawyers should not dismiss lawyers’ professional liability coverage
Sep 24 2007 // The perils facing employed lawyers have increased substantially in the past five years. Attorneys should know better than anyone about the perils that exist and the value of professional liability coverage. Yet there are a...
Md. Insurer Says It No Longer Needs Malpractice Premium Subsidy
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Union Asks Congress to Help NFL Players Win More Disability Claims
Sep 19 2007 // Under fire from injured retirees who say they were denied sufficient benefits, the head of the National Football League Players Association asked Congress this week for greater authority to approve players’...
Holstein Promoted to Claims Operations Manager for Calif. State Fund
Sep 17 2007 // Katarina Holstein has been promoted to claims operations manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Los Angeles Claims Services in Glendale. Holstein began her State Fund career when she was...
SCRMA Adds P/C Claims Administration
Sep 14 2007 // Southern California Risk Management Associates (SCRMA) has added property and casualty claims administration to its suite of workers’ compensation and managed care services. SCRMA now offers an array of property and...
Rowlett Appointed Claims Manager in Stockton for Calif. SCIF
Sep 12 2007 // Janet Rowlett has been promoted to claims manager of the Stockton District Office for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund. Rowlett brings 21-years of workers’ compensation experience to her new post...
Calif. State Fund Appoints Claims Operations Manager
Sep 11 2007 // Keith Kincaid has been promoted to claims operations manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Glendale operations. Kincaid brings 15 years of workers’ compensation experience to his...
12 Charged with Claims Fraud from 2004 Casino Bus Crash in Pa.
Sep 6 2007 // Twelve people have been charged in Pennsylvania with insurance fraud in a 2004 casino bus crash that authorities allege was staged so the passengers could cash in by filing bogus injury claims. The crash occurred on April...
Marsh UK warns of possible liabilities
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK has issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater directors’ and...
Marsh UK warns of possible liabilities
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK has issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater directors’ and...
Marsh cautions Europeans on U.S. subprime crisis
Sep 3 2007 // Insurance broker Marsh UK issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater D&O and E&O...
Report: insurers did not shift wind claims
Sep 3 2007 // A preliminary report from the federal government has found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina onto the federal government’s flood...
