Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Brit Estimates Total Katrina/Rita Claims at $256 Million
Sep 28 2005 // The U.K.’s Brit Insurance Holdings PLC announced that it has preliminarily estimated its combined loss claims from Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Flood and Rita at 145 million pounds ($256 million). “This...
CaseRev, Inc. Announces Pilot Program with Crawford & Company
Sep 28 2005 // Internet Based Litigation Management Application Will Allow Enforcement of Client Specific Litigation Handling Guidelines, Collection of Data and Performance Analysis San Diego, CA, September 1, 2005 – CaseRev, Inc....
Harleysville Names Glancy to Midwest Claims Center
Sep 28 2005 // Thomas W. Glancy has been named assistant vice president of Harleysville Insurance’s Midwest claims service center. In this new role, he is responsible for directing all activities of the claims center, which is...
Safeco Estimates Katrina After-Tax Losses at $78M
Sep 27 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco announced estimated after-tax catastrophe losses from Hurricane Katrina of $78 million, or $0.61 per diluted share. Safeco’s gross pretax losses before reinsurance are estimated to be $170...
Hurricane Victims in Texas Can File Claims Before Seeing Damage
Sep 27 2005 // Texans who can’t return home because of the damage caused by Hurricane Rita can file a claim without seeing what has happened to their property, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. By filing a claim now, the...
Miss. Commissioner Dale Reports Katrina Claims Approach 500,000
Sep 26 2005 // Almost half a million insurance claims have been submitted by policy-holders whose property was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, according to George Dale, Mississippi Insurance...
Colo. Democrats Question Claims That Auto Insurance Rates Have Declined
Sep 25 2005 // Democrats questioned claims by the auto insurance industry and Colorado state insurance commissioner that rates declined after the state switched from a no-fault system to a tort system, saying 48 of 200 companies have not...
Hawaii Workers’ Comp Claims Declining
Sep 22 2005 // State of Hawaii officials say the number of workers’ compensation claims filed in the state is on the decline. Preliminary figures show 2004 saw 2,347 fewer workers’ comp claims filed than in 2003, a drop of...
Nationwide Gears Up for Rita’s Landfall
Sep 22 2005 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., the country’s seventh-largest property and casualty insurance company, has claims representatives and agents prepared to assist customers as Rita makes landfall this week. The insurer...
Flatt Named P/C Claims VP at Harleysville Insurance
Sep 22 2005 // Denise T. Flatt has been named vice president of property/casualty claims for Harleysville Insurance. In this position, she is responsible for directing home office technical claims functions, specialty units and...
GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to Pay $150 million to Settle Fraud Case
Sep 22 2005 // GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $150 million to settle claims it overcharged the government for two anti-nausea drugs, and prosecutors say they’re looking into 150 cases of drug price fraud. The Glaxo settlement is the...
Kansas Sends DOI Staffers to Katrina Claims Processing Center
Sep 21 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has deployed two members of the Kansas Insurance Department to assist at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Call Center in Kansas City, Mo., which was...
PIA Requests Advance Emergency Orders From TDI
Sep 21 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents and its affiliate, the Texas Insurance Professionals, are recommending that Texas insurance regulators and federal authorities ease certain insurance regulations...
The Main Street America Group Implements Guidewire Claims Center
Sep 20 2005 // Jacksonville, Fla. based The Main Street America Group has announced it has selected the Guidewire ClaimCenter as its new claims processing system. “After a thorough evaluation of available claims systems and the...
HURRICANE KATRINA: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // Liability Claims Will Range Far-and-Wide for Years to Come 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...
Surveying the Damage: After Katrina, Can the Industry Withstand Another Disaster?
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina could be called an industry nightmare. Some insurers were still reeling from the effects of the Asian tsunamis and last year’s four hurricanes. Yet when Katrina struck in late August, she forced...
Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 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...
Born to File Claims: Driving Behavior is Written in the Stars
Sep 19 2005 // Many people turn to the stars for direction in matters of money, love and happiness. Now, according to a survey conducted by Prudential Car Insurance in the United Kingdom, it appears that the zodiac may also play a role...
S. Floridians Viewed Hurricane Katrina as an Expensive Nuisance
Sep 19 2005 // Insurance adjusters scrambled to South Florida to work on claims before they realized Hurricane Katrina was going to cross into the Gulf of Mexico and become a catastrophic hurricane devastating Mississippi and...
International Newsbriefs
Sep 19 2005 // European Insurers Estimate Katrina Losses: A disaster the scope of Hurricane Katrina hits everybody, not just U.S. carriers. The following are some of the preliminary estimates of anticipated losses from a number of...
