Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Consumer Groups: Allstate Trying to Hide Katrina Claims Practices
Aug 8 2007 // Public Justice, a law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., and the California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), are asking a New Orleans federal court to keep public key documents from a...
Farmers Dispatching Claims Team to Help with Montana Fire
Aug 8 2007 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies’ said its claims personnel are on the scene near Seeley Lake, Mont., today assisting Farmers’ customers who may have been evacuated or suffered damage from the...
Katrina at Two Years: $40.6 Billion Paid on 1.7 Million Insurance Claims
Aug 7 2007 // Two years later, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from Hurricane Katrina have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion — in the history of the...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Putting Florida’s rate filing and reinsurance controversy in context
Aug 6 2007 // Currently underway in Florida is a controversy over the amount of private reinsurance homeowners insurers should purchase in addition to the now expanded $28 billion in reinsurance available from the Florida Hurricane...
Lloyd’s America’s Baker: Time for action on climate change is now
Aug 6 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 Amer-ica Inc., staying on top of those trends in the United...
Nightmare in D.C.
Aug 6 2007 // Wearing a bright green protest button on a recent summer evening, American Tort Reform Association president Sherman “Tiger” Joyce joined small business advocates in denouncing the now notorious...
Insurers anticipate claims from Manhattan steam pipe blast
Aug 6 2007 // Consolidated Edison in New York has agreed to let two insurance companies anticipating millions of dollars in claims monitor the cleanup of last month’s steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan, the utility’s...
Agents Errors & Omissions
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season. Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
Editor’s Note: Nightmare in D.C.
Aug 6 2007 // Wearing a bright green protest button on a recent summer evening, American Tort Reform Association president Sherman “Tiger” Joyce joined small business advocates in denouncing the now notorious...
News Currents
Aug 6 2007 // Insurers anticipate claims from Manhattan steam pipe blast Steam blast: Pipes and cables are seen sticking out of the crater created by a steam pipe explosion at the corner of Lexington Ave. and 41st St., July 26, 2007 in...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // Today’s energy industry is being challenged by climate changes, market fluctuations, business mergers, natural disasters, terrorism, war, political risk, increasing regulatory and financial scrutiny and evolving...
Putting Florida’s rate filing and reinsurance controversy in context
Aug 6 2007 // Currently underway in Florida is a controversy over the amount of private reinsurance homeowners insurers should purchase in addition to the now expanded $28 billion in reinsurance available from the Florida Hurricane...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Agents in E&O Buyer’s Seat
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season. Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
Ark. Agents Honor Progressive’s Claims Department
Jul 31 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Arkansas named Progressive’s Arkansas claims unit as the 2007 “Claims Department of the Year” following a vote by the more than 250 independent insurance agency...
Tort Reformers Aid D.C. Dry Cleaner Sued Over Misplaced Pants
Jul 31 2007 // Wearing a bright green protest button, American Tort Reform Association president Sherman “Tiger” Joyce last Tuesday evening joined small business advocates in denouncing the now notorious multimillion-dollar...
Insurers Expect Claims from N.Y City Steam Pipe Explosion
Jul 29 2007 // Consolidated Edison in New York has agreed to let two insurance companies anticipating millions of dollars in claims monitor the cleanup of last week’s steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan, the utility’s...
N.D. Workers’ Compensation Program Selects Aon’s Valley Oak Systems
Jul 23 2007 // Valley Oak Systems, Inc., an Aon company and provider of insurance solutions, today announced that Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI), North Dakota’s exclusive workers’ compensation carrier, has selected...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
