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Oct 17 2005 // Katrina Churns in $34.4B in Losses: Hurricane Katrina is expected to cost U.S. property/casualty insurers an estimated $34.4 billion in insured property losses, making it the costliest U.S. catastrophe ever, according to...

Jobless Claims in La. Reach Historic Levels After Hurricanes

Oct 14 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Labor reported it has paid out more than $3 million in Unemployment Insurance and Disaster Unemployment Assistance benefits to victims of Hurricane Rita, while Katrina claims have topped $181...

CLUS’ Fox Named Claims Professional of the Year

Oct 12 2005 // Cunningham Lindsey U.S. reported that employee Mike Fox was presented with the Texas Claims Professional of the Year Award for 2005 by the Texas Claims Association. Fox is employed as a supervising adjuster in the CLUS...

Agreement Reached: Nationwide to Audit Last Year’s Florida Hurricane Claims, Correct Underpayments

Oct 12 2005 // Nationwide Insurance has reached an agreement with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to audit its claims from the 2004 hurricane season and correct any underpayments. OIR announced that under the agreement...

Nine S. Floridians Charged for Making False Claims to FEMA

Oct 11 2005 // Nine Broward County residents have been charged in Fort Lauderdale with defrauding the Federal Emergency Assistance Agency by obtaining disaster relief after Hurricane Frances made landfall last year almost 100 miles away....

Three Mississippians Charged for Making False Hurricane Katrina Claims

Oct 11 2005 // Three Mississippi residents have been accused of making false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hurricane Katrina relief funds. Dunn Lampton, U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Mississippi, told...

Class Action Suit Filed Against AIG Over Katrina Claims

Oct 10 2005 // Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR), a New York City-based national coalition of public interest organizations, announced that a New Orleans resident has filed a class action suit against American International Group...

ISO: Preliminary Insured Losses from Katrina at $34.4 Billion

Oct 4 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is expected to cost U.S. property/casualty insurers an estimated $34.4 billion in insured property losses, making it the costliest U.S. catastrophe ever, according to preliminary estimates by ISO’s...

La. DOL Says Katrina-Related Benefits 15 Times Above Normal

Oct 3 2005 // Hurricane Katrina-related benefits paid by the Louisiana Department of Labor have climbed to 181,071 for the month of September – 15 times more than normally paid in a month, according to department records. The...

Miss. Attorney General Hood Accuses Carriers of Cheating

Oct 3 2005 // Five major insurance companies were recently sued by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who charged that insurance adjusters attempted to cheat Hurricane Katrina survivors out of millions of dollars in...

$20,000 False Claims in St. Petersburg

Oct 3 2005 // The Prosecutor’s Office has charged five St. Petersburg residents with filing false claims and defrauding two car insurance companies after a May 2004 two-car wreck in Pinellas Park, Fla. Zlatan Ramic, Alija...

Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins

Oct 3 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...

The Ins and Outs of Claims-Made Policies

Oct 3 2005 // Claims-made policies are policies commonly associated with professional liability policies, such as Directors & Officers, Employment Practices Liability and other miscellaneous professional liability policies including...

Citizens COO Quits; Investigations Ongoing After Kickback Accusations

Oct 3 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Chief Operating Officer R. Paul Hulsebusch is facing accusations by Universal Risk Insur-ance Services in Houston, Texas, that after last year’s hurricanes he sought kickbacks from...

News Briefs

Oct 3 2005 // ALABAMA Ala. Commissioner Asks Carriers for 60 Day Grace Period Alabama Insu-rance Commissioner Walter Bell has asked all carriers to provide a 60-day grace period for customers who have claims related to Hurricane Katrina...

Miss. Attorney General Hood

Oct 3 2005 // Five major insurance companies were recently sued by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who charged that insurance adjusters attempted to cheat Hurricane Katrina survivors out of millions of dollars in...

Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins

Oct 3 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...

The Ins and Outs of Claims-Made Policies

Oct 3 2005 // Claims-made policies are policies commonly associated with professional liability policies, such as Directors & Officers, Employment Practices Liability and other miscellaneous professional liability policies...

Oct 3 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Leslie Mallonee has been named senior vice president and chief information officer. Mallonee’s history in information technology includes his...

Fireman’s Fund Reports Single Deductible on Katrina, Rita Claims

Sep 29 2005 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company said it will treat homeowners’ property damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as one event for purposes of calculating the amount of hurricane deductible on losses. As a...