Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 5 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Federal appeals court upholds juries’ rulings in World Trade Center twin tower claims
Nov 5 2006 // A federal court has upheld the jury verdicts that recognized the two-plane terrorist attacks on the towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, as a single event for some insurers and two events for others. A...
Open claims files handled by California Insurance Guaranty Association drop
Nov 5 2006 // The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high of 85,000 to around 48,000, of which more than 40,000 are the result of workers’...
Are the flood gates open for retaliation claims?
Nov 5 2006 // Retaliation claims have been on the rise for more than a decade. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, only 15.3 percent of the charges of discrimination filed with the agency in 1992 alleged...
Innovations in information technology spur need for up-to-date underwriters
Nov 5 2006 // With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology...
The untold story: state guaranty funds
Nov 5 2006 // The National Insurance Guaranty Fund program, operating in every state, is the “untold story” in the property casualty industry, one insurance trade executive says. “The thing to remember about the...
U.S. legal precedents assume larger role in corporate oversight
Nov 5 2006 // Maybe it’s part of the globalization process; maybe it’s due to the increasing sophistication of private investors and fund managers, or maybe it’s the legal profession prospecting for additional income...
Social services agencies need extra care and an agent’s helping hand
Nov 5 2006 // Few independent agents recognize that they can make profits from not-for-profit organizations, says Dan Mogelnicki, president of Manhasset, N.Y.-based NIF Underwriting Facilities, a program administrator and wholesale...
Study Reveals Leading Indicators for Hospital Professional Liability Claims
Oct 31 2006 // Advisen Ltd., a provider of analytics, benchmarking and market information to the global commercial insurance industry, released the results of its recent hospital professional liability claims study done in cooperation...
Beazley Adds to Claims Team in N.Y.
Oct 30 2006 // Beazley, an insurer of specialty lines risks, has expanded its global specialty lines claims team with the addition of four professionals in the company’s newly opened New York office. Prior to joining Beazley, Peter...
HUD Charges Erie, Agents with Unfair Bias; Erie Calls Charges ‘Misguided’
Oct 30 2006 // The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has charged Erie Insurance Group and five independent insurance agencies with violating the Fair Housing Act. HUD alleges that they provided inferior insurance products...
Comp Administrator First Cardinal Adds Staff at N.Y. Headquarters
Oct 24 2006 // Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC has hired several new employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Stacy Anuszewski, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has joined the claims department as claims...
Miss. Insured Claims State Farm Coerced Katrina Statement
Oct 24 2006 // A Gulf Coast homeowner claims State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. coerced him into signing a statement that he is satisfied with its handling of his claim after Hurricane Katrina, even though it only paid for a fraction of...
Court Upholds Juries’ Rulings in World Trade Center Claims
Oct 19 2006 // A federal court has upheld the jury verdicts that recognized the two-plane terrorist attacks on the towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 as a single event for some insurers and two events for others. A...
Judge Denies N.Y. City Immunity for Ground Zero Lawsuits
Oct 19 2006 // The city and its contractors are not immune from lawsuits brought by emergency workers sickened after toiling amid toxic dust at ground zero, a judge ruled, clearing the way for what he said should be the speedy resolution...
Westall Joins Collins as SVP-Accounting and Claims
Oct 17 2006 // Kristine (Kris) Westall has joined Minneapolis-based reinsurance intermediary Collins as senior vice president, Accounting and Claims, bringing to her new position over 20 years’ experience with reinsurance brokers...
Mo. Insurance Dept. Releases 2005 Medical Malpractice Report
Oct 16 2006 // In 2005, medical malpractice insurers in Missouri recorded a positive underwriting result for the second consecutive year and the highest recorded number of new claims filed, according to the 2005 Medical Malpractice...
McMurtrie Named Chief Claims Officer at Grange Insurance
Oct 16 2006 // Peter McMurtrie has joined Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance in the new position of chief claims officer. The company said McMurtrie will focus on three main areas of operation as he begins his new position:...
