Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
St. Paul Travelers Launches Canadian Directors and Officers Policy
Apr 21 2006 // Directors and officers of companies in Canada will have broader protection for claims made against their personal assets under a new Directors’ and Officers’ policy introduced by Minn.-based St. Paul...
Governor Claims Workers’ Comp Changes ‘Huge Success’
Apr 21 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the sweeping workers’ compensation changes he pushed through the Legislature two years ago a “huge success,” but critics called them a disaster for injured...
Safety Insurance Promotes Kostro to Direct Claims Operations
Apr 20 2006 // Safety Insurance in Boston, Mass. has promoted Bob Kostro to director of claims operations. Kostro joined Safety in 1987 as a claims adjuster trainee. He worked in several claims positions before being promoted in 1992 to...
GAB Robins Names Drago as Executive VP of Claims
Apr 20 2006 // Parsippany, N.J.-based GAB Robins North America, Inc. has named Patricia (Pat) Drago as executive vice president of Claims and Account Management for its North American Operations. Drago officially joins GAB Robins on June...
Insurers Expected to Pay $1.38B for Q1 Cat Losses
Apr 20 2006 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay an estimated $1.38 billion to homeowners and businesses in insured property losses from seven catastrophe events in first-quarter 2006, according to preliminary analysis...
Illness Claims N.C. Philanthropist, Reinsurer, Maurice Sabbah
Apr 20 2006 // Maurice “Chico” Sabbah, a Greensboro, N.C. businessman and philanthropist whose risk-sharing insurance company had to pay more than $400 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
Insurers Applaud Signing of Maine Bill Limiting Uninsured Motorist Claims
Apr 19 2006 // In a major victory for Maine insurers, legislation drafted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) aimed at correcting a Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision hindering insurers’ ability to...
Erie Insurance Provides Emergency Claims Contact Info to Ind. Policyholders
Apr 19 2006 // Erie Insurance Group has announced that is is providing contact information to its policyholders who have suffered damages as a result of the recent hail storms in Indiana. In its writtend statement, Erie Insurance...
Miss. AG Hood: Insurance Companies Intentionally Delaying Paying Katrina Claims
Apr 17 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sharply criticized insurers’ denial of Hurricane Katrina claims in Mississippi, saying companies are “in lockstep like Nazis locking arms, coming at those people down...
Deadly storms hit Midwest again in new round of spring tornadoes
Apr 17 2006 // The new round of tornadoes hit the Midwest less than one month after a similar grouping of twisters, high winds and damage hit a five-state area on March 12. News Currents Another round of deadly storms hit the Midwest...
Closer Look: Louisiana Homeowners
Apr 17 2006 // However, insurer trade group says it can be found by those who shop After the wreckage caused by last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many home insurers in southern Louisiana are refusing to write new policies,...
Miscellaneous Professional Liability
Apr 17 2006 // This morning, you received a phone call from a potential client interested in purchasing professional liability coverage. During the course of the conversation, the prospective client is not a traditional professional,...
Archdiocese uses reserves to settle sex-abuse claims, pays $5.25 million
Apr 17 2006 // News Currents The Seattle Archdiocese looked deep into its reserve funds to cover the cost of settling sex abuse claims, church officials said. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Wash., and one of its main...
Proposed California Homeowners Regs Bad Public Policy, Associations Say
Apr 14 2006 // Homeowners’ insurance regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance would result in higher premiums for many Californians, force insurers to charge unfair homeowner rates and cause subsidies among...
Hawaii Workers’ Compensation Claims Often Involve Lost Time
Apr 14 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute recently studied Hawaii’s workers’ comp system and found a strikingly high proportion of claims that involved lost time. However, the insititute also...
G.E. Young & Co. Hires Dekema as Business Development Director
Apr 13 2006 // Mike Dekema, of Kirkland, Wash., recently joined G.E. Young & Co., a third-party claims management company based in the Denver area, as director of business development. Dekema, who holds more than 34 years of...
Mo. Senate Votes to Bar Insurers from Canceling Policies Due to Storm Claims
Apr 13 2006 // The Missouri Senate voted Tuesday to bar insurance companies from canceling policies, refusing to renew policies or raising rates as a result of weather-related claims. Sen. Charlie Shields, (R-St. Joseph), offered the...
Senator’s Lawyer Claims State Farm Destroying Mississippi Documents
Apr 12 2006 // A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said in Biloxi, Miss. that State Farm Insurance Co. is destroying documents that could show the insurer has fraudulently denied thousands of claims by Lott and other policyholders whose...
Study Claims N.Y. Employer Mandate Would Cost Jobs, $9.2 Billion
Apr 12 2006 // Up to 100,000 jobs would be lost in New York State and businesses stand to take a $9.2 billion dollar hit under a proposed healthcare mandate, according to research by University of Kentucky economist Dr. Aaron Yelowitz...
Insurance Clouds Future of Pa. Health System, Study Claims
Apr 9 2006 // Health care plays a significant role in Pennsylvania’s economy; however, the future of patient care is uncertain as problems with insurance and supply of services as well as increased demand for care combine to...
