Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Allstate Insurance Co. Civil Trial Begins in Kentucky
Oct 2 2007 // A civil trial regarding Allstate Insurance Co.’s procedures for handling claims began in Fayette County Circuit Court this week. Geneva Hager, of Richmond, Ky., filed a $1.425 billion civil lawsuit claiming the...
Swift Selected as Claims Manager for Calif. State Fund
Oct 1 2007 // Evadne Swift has been promoted to claims manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Oxnard state contracts. Swift joined the organization’s Arcadia, Calif., District Office in 1990 when...
Scruggs Asks Alabama Judge to Throw Out Katrina-Related Charge
Sep 30 2007 // Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs has asked a federal judge to throw out a charge accusing him of criminal contempt in a dispute related to insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina. In court papers made public last...
La. Commissioner to ask Insurers to Continue Katrina Mediations
Sep 28 2007 // Property insurers in Louisiana should continue mediating outstanding claims of homeowners who sustained damages in Hurricane Katrina and pay the costs of the sessions, although they are not legally obligated to do so,...
Safeco Sends Claims Team to Aid Customers in Minn. and N.D.
Sep 27 2007 // Safeco has deployed claims professionals to help customers in Minnesota and North Dakota recover from a damaging hail storm that occurred September 20-21. Safeco claims representatives arrived in the area shortly after the...
Study Claims ‘Perverse’ Incentives Causing U.S. Disability Costs to Soar
Sep 27 2007 // The number of workers receiving disability in the U.S. is growing so rapidly that these benefits are now the fastest rising component of Social Security spending — growing at nearly twice the rate of retirement...
LWCC Promotes Bourg to Claims Manager
Sep 25 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has promoted Jamie Bourg to claims manager for the company’s large accounts team. According to the company’s announcement, Bourg will manage and direct...
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...
Report: Insurers did not shift wind claims
Sep 24 2007 // A preliminary report from the federal government found no evidence to support allegations that private insurers improperly shifted wind damage claims from Hurricane Katrina onto the federal government’s flood...
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...
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...
