Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Nov 20 2005 // Arkansas Mobile Home Lawsuit Dismissed The Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by Nationwide Mutu-al Fire Insurance Co. over payment of a claim after a mobile home caught fire in Beebe, Ark. The Associated...
Calif. Fraud Ring Lands Three in Jail
Nov 20 2005 // Three suspects have been arrested following an 11-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance of an auto insurance fraud ring that targeted car rental and insurance companies for fraudulent automobile...
Federal Court Dismisses Remaining Claims in Safelite Suit
Nov 17 2005 // A federal court judge dismissed the final three claims yesterday in an Independent Glass Association (IGA)-backed lawsuit against Safelite Group, Inc., parent company of Safelite Solutions LLC and Safelite Fulfillment,...
CORRECTION: Brit Estimates Wilma Claims at $65 Million; Total Hurricane Losses at $316.5 Million
Nov 16 2005 // The original article contained a significant mathematical error. U.K.-based international insurer and reinsurer, Brit Insurance Holdings PLC, announced that claims arising from Hurricane Wilma, net of reinsurance...
Crawford & Co.’s Claims Advantage Reduces Cost, Severity of Workers’ Compensation Claims
Nov 15 2005 // A new proprietary web-based application that incorporates structured interviews into the workers’ compensation claims process has been introduced by Crawford & Company of Atlanta. Crawford Claims Advantage...
French Insurers Plan Rapid Processing of Riot Related Claims
Nov 11 2005 // Spokesmen for France’s insurance industry have indicated that it will speed up claims processing in order to pay for damages to vehicles and property resulting from the urban violence that has rocked France for over...
Agents Group Sets Flood Insurance Reform Agenda
Nov 11 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) released a set of 22 recommendations for needed improvements to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The recommendations, if...
Alabama DOI Predicts Price Increases; Expects 50,000 Hurricane Claims
Nov 10 2005 // More than 50,000 claims are expected in Alabama from hurricane damage according to Ragan Ingram, assistant insurance commissioner for the Alabama Department of Insurance. He said, however, that complete cost estimates...
Study Blames Bad Regulatory System, Not Bad Drivers, for Mass. Auto Woes
Nov 9 2005 // A new study suggests that the high cost of auto insurance in Massachusetts should be blamed on bad government, not bad drivers. The state’s rate setting system encourages drivers to file too many minor accident...
Disaster Claims and the Ripple Effect
Nov 7 2005 // Hurricane Katrina has long gone, but the aftereffects of the mighty storm are likely to linger for a very long time. Rita and Wilma have compounded the mess. The direct losses are staggering. The latest preliminary figures...
Employment Practices Liability: Like Fine Wine, Better With Time
Nov 7 2005 // Many insurance products grow better with the passage of time, as good underwriters look for ways to structure the policy language to be more response to evolving claims scenarios, legislative and judicial developments and...
Lack of Electricity, Gasoline Slows Hurricane Wilma Recovery Efforts
Nov 7 2005 // Four days after Hurricane Wilma crossed southwest Florida and tore into South Florida, insurance agents in Naples and Miami told Insurance Journal they had not encountered the onslaught of claims they expected, but...
NATIONWIDE AUDITING HURRICANE CLAIMS
Nov 7 2005 // Nationwide Insurance has reached an agreement with state regulators to audit its claims from the 2004 hurricane season and correct any underpayments. The state Office of Insurance Regulation has announced that under the...
Avoiding Financial Catastrophes:Take Care When Procuring Agents E&O
Nov 7 2005 // Agents and brokers have spent a great deal of energy in recent years finding suitable insurance products for their clients. Not only has the marketplace become more complex, the typical insured has become increasingly more...
How to Write the Diverse Business of Lawyers Professional Liability
Nov 7 2005 // Managing the risk of lawsuits against lawyers. With more than a quarter million law firms in the United States, the lawyers’ professional liability market represents a huge opportunity for retail agents and wholesale...
UnumProvident Enters Settlement
Nov 7 2005 // Three of UnumProvident Corp.’s insurance subsidiaries have entered into a settlement agreement with the California Depart-ment of Insurance, concluding an investigation of the subsidiaries’ disability claims...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Lack of Electricity, Gasoline Slows Hurricane Wilma Recovery Efforts
Nov 6 2005 // Four days after Hurricane Wilma crossed southwest Florida and tore into South Florida, insurance agents in Naples and Miami told Insurance Journal they had not encountered the onslaught of claims they expected, but...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // Arkansas 2006 Comp Rates Released The Arkansas Workers’ Compens-ation Commission released its revised Advisory 2000-1, which describes the maximum and minimum rates to be paid to employees who suffer job-related...
UnumProvident Enters Settlement
Nov 6 2005 // Three of UnumProvident Corp.’s insurance subsidiaries have entered into a settlement agreement with the California Depart-ment of Insurance, concluding an investigation of the subsidiaries’ disability claims...
