Latest Claims Headlines

$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...

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...