Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hurricane-Related Insurance Claims Paid Top $1.2B in Miss.
Oct 19 2005 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance George Dale reported that insurance companies have paid out approximately $1,266,828,689 billion in claims related to hurricanes in Mississippi so far. Approximately 319,959 claims...
Harleysville Taps Sarnese for Mid-Atlantic Claims Center in N.J.
Oct 19 2005 // Thomas A. Sarnese has been named assistant vice president of Harleysville Insurance’s Mid-Atlantic claims service center. In this new role, he is responsible for directing all activities of the claims center, which...
Hicks to Direct Harleysville’s Nashville Claims Service Center
Oct 19 2005 // Anna M. Hicks has been named assistant vice president of Harleysville Insurance’s Southeast claims service center. In this new role, she is responsible for directing all activities of the claims center, which is...
Study Finds Fewer Med-Mal Claims Against Hospitals and Physicians
Oct 18 2005 // While the severity of malpractice claims continues to rise – growing at a rate of 7.5 percent annually – the frequency of malpractice claims has decreased by 1 percent over the past year, according to the 2005...
Starr Claims It’s Independent from AIG
Oct 17 2005 // Starr International Co., a company headed by former American International Group CEO Maurice Greenberg, is disputing claims that it is affiliated with AIG and therefore should return the 12 percent or $19 billion of AIG...
Case Law Watch
Oct 17 2005 // USAA Casualty Insurance Co. v. Anglum, et al. (Colorado, Sept. 12, 2005) Ruling: The court held that an USAA auto policy unambiguously permitted the insurer to charge an adjusted premium for a newly acquired vehicle from...
People
Oct 17 2005 // Westfield Insurance of Westfield Center, Ohio, named Scott Jurek senior executive, claims field operations, Western division. In this capacity, Jurek helps set and execute the claims strategy for Westfield while working...
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // ALABAMA AIIA Conference, Educational Sessions The Alabama Independent Insurance Agents has scheduled five upcoming seminars in Mobile, Birming-ham and Huntsville. Oct. 19, Small and Rural Agents Conference, two topics,...
Managing Co-Owner Dismissed
Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...
Auto-Liability
Oct 17 2005 // USAA Casualty Insurance Co. v. Anglum, et al. (Colorado, Sept. 12, 2005) Ruling: The court held that an USAA auto policy unambiguously permitted the insurer to charge an adjusted premium for a newly acquired vehicle from...
News Briefs
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...
