Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fla. Homeowners Have Money, But Contractors, Roofers Unavailable to Make Repairs
Apr 19 2005 // April 18 was the deadline for insurers to finish processing and paying off 1.69 million hurricane damage claims across Florida, but they still have nine days to go before they have to tell the state how many claims remain...
\Asked & Answered: Wisconsin Commissioner Jose Gomez
Apr 18 2005 // John Fogerty once sang, “I ain’t no fortunate son.” As the son of an independent insurance agent who forced me to work in the office while I was growing up, I can relate to the sentiment. Wisconsin...
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DOCTORS’ DEADLINE TO FILE NO-FAULT AUTO CLAIMS
Apr 18 2005 // A State Farm customer and his doctor, who challenged a 30-day deadline for doctors to file claims on a patient’s no-fault auto policy, have lost their claim in the Florida Supreme Court. They challenged the deadline,...
Mission Claims Service Opens Dallas Office
Apr 12 2005 // Cody Dailey, president of Mission Claims Service Inc. and southern region vice-president of the Texas Independent Insurance Adjusters Association, announced that Mission Claims has opened a branch office servicing the...
N.C. Agents Detour Auto Fraud Ring Responsible for 480 Crashes, $2 M in False Claims
Apr 12 2005 // Six Chatham and Randolph County, N.C. residents suspected of masterminding an extensive auto insurance fraud ring which staged an estimated 480 auto crashes and defrauded more than $2 million have been arrested as the...
Spitzer Claims ‘Powerful’ Evidence Against AIG; Stresses Today’s Witness Buffett Not Subject of Probes
Apr 10 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he disagrees with former CEO Maurice Greenberg’s attorney that accounting mistakes at American International Group were insignificant in their impact. Spitzer also...
Medical Costs Driving Mass. Workers’ Comp
Apr 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Massachusetts grew rapidly in the two most recent years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The major factor driving these costs...
Florida’s CFO, Jupiter, Fla. Homeowners Discuss Unpaid Hurricane Claims; Final Meeting Slated April 9
Apr 8 2005 // Thursday night, six months after Hurricane Jeanne hit the east coast, Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, met for the sixth in a series of seven town hall meetings to discuss unpaid claims with 250 homeowners in Jupiter,...
Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes Pummel Mississippi; Agents Expect Claims
Apr 7 2005 // Mississippi homeowners began contacting their insurance companies after severe thunderstorms, spawning powerful tornadoes, pummeled Mississippi from top to bottom, destroying or damaging at least 75 homes and ripping away...
AIA: N.D. Loss History Bill Goes too Far
Apr 7 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Thursday said that North Dakota’s SB 2186 goes too far in regulating the use of loss history reports for homeowners insurance and plans to ask Gov. John Hoeven (R) to veto...
Crawford & Co. to Identify Risk Factors Using e-Triage
Apr 4 2005 // Atlanta-based Crawford & Company has entered into an agreement with e-Triage, an international technology company in Virginia, to enhance Crawford’s early intervention approach to workers’ compensation...
An Underinsurance Lesson from the West Coast
Apr 4 2005 // In the aftermath of the devastating Southern California Wildfires of October 2003, claim adjusters went to work in an area where an estimated 3,631 structures were destroyed. In many cases the only remaining indication of...
Regulators Look for a Clue
Apr 4 2005 // Was it Colonel ChoicePoint in the Conservatory With a Knife? When ChoicePoint Asset Co. finally disclosed Feb. 15 that criminals had gained access to the personal information of as many as 145,000 people in all 50 states,...
Court Upholds Industry Lawsuit: CDI’s Homeowners Regulations Illegal
Apr 4 2005 // Charges by the California Department of Insurance that the California homeowners insurance industry arbitrarily nonrenews or raises rates on homeowners who file one claim or make an inquiry about their coverage is little...
Adjusters can Detect the Problem of Underinsurance Before Disaster Strikes
Apr 4 2005 // In the aftermath of the devastating Southern California wildfires of October 2003, claim adjusters went to work in an area where an estimated 3,631 structures were destroyed. In many cases the only remaining indication of...
Sinkhole or Settling? Fla. Insurance Committee Attempting to Find a Definition
Apr 1 2005 // House Insurance Committee members meeting in Tallahassee, Fla. are attempting to hammer out a bill to better define sinkholes, a common problem in many counties in which entire highways, neighborhoods and houses are...
Fla. Supreme Court Upholds 30-day Deadline for Doctors to File Auto Policy No-Fault Claims
Apr 1 2005 // A State Farm customer and his doctor, who challenged a 30-day deadline for doctors to file claims on a patient’s no-fault auto policy, have lost their claim in the Florida Supreme Court that the provision is...
Fla. CFO Seeks to Clarify Reported Confusion with Storm Claims, Outlines Options to Help Consumers
Mar 30 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Wednesday raised concerns with confusing policy language and recommended solutions for helping consumers navigate through their homeowners insurance policies and...
Damage from Central Texas Storm Nearing $100 Million
Mar 30 2005 // Two Texas-based insurance industry trade associations released preliminary estimations of the cost of damages from the strong hailstorm that hit Central Texas on Friday, March 24. According to the Southwestern Insurance...
Alabama Insurance Commission Deadline Passes, Insurers Have 30 Days to Pay Claims
Mar 29 2005 // The March 25 deadline, set by the Alabama Department of Insurance for insurers to settle Hurricane Ivan-related claims or report to the department why they have not been settled, has passed and according to a DoI...
