Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Surgeons Got Off on Wrong Foot, Claims Pa. Patient
Aug 26 2007 // Doctors performed surgery on the wrong foot of a Pennsylvania man who wanted to have a bunion and hammer toe corrected, according to a lawsuit. Terry Fortson, 60, of McKeesport, said doctors at the Veterans Affairs...
Alaska Court Decision Could Open Door to Millions of Disability Claims, Nonprofit Says
Aug 23 2007 // The Alaska Supreme Court has decided a case that could open the door to disability claims from millions of wireless industry or maintenance workers who experience occupational exposures to operating antenna arrays,...
Marsh UK Warns of Possible E&O, D&O Liabilities from Subprime Defaults
Aug 21 2007 // 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 Directors’ and Officers’...
Katrina at Two Years
Aug 20 2007 // $40.6 billion paid on 1.7 million insurance claims Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been...
FORE! Golf club risk moves off course
Aug 20 2007 // In June 2007, a California woman was awarded $4.3 million for injuries she received in a golf car crash that left her too disabled to continue her successful photography and jewelry design careers. A wheel of the car she...
FORE! Golf club risk moves off course
Aug 20 2007 // In June 2007, a California woman was awarded $4.3 million for injuries she received in a golf car crash that left her too disabled to continue her successful photography and jewelry design careers. A wheel of the car she...
Katrina at Two Years
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion —...
Interim Report: No Proof Insurers Labeled Katrina Wind Claims as Flood
Aug 16 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...
U.S. May Join Lawsuit Claiming Insurers Defrauded Government Over Katrina Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on...
R&SA Posts $482 Million H1 Profit Despite UK Flood Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The UK’s Royal & SunAlliance enjoyed a prosperous first half of 2007, despite the costly flood losses that hit the UK in June and July. After tax profits for the period were £237 million ($482 million) only...
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...
