Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ecDataFlow Purchases P/C Insurance Injury Profiling Solution
Jan 7 2002 // ecDataFlow, a provider of custom predictive e-commerce software, has acquired the ACES Online Claims Processing software to help streamline and expedite the property & casualty and medical claims processes. According...
Silverstein Seeks to Broaden WTC Claims Suit
Jan 2 2002 // Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the destroyed World Trade Center, has opened a new front in its ongoing battle with its insurers to recover for the loss on both of the twin towers by seeking court...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
ABA Sets Up Task Force on Insurance and Terrorism Claims
Dec 21 2001 // The American Bar Association announced the creation of a Task Force on Insurance and Terrorism Claims to address insurance issues arising out of the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The...
Report DnO Claims, Premiums Increase
Dec 17 2001 // A recent report in Lloyd’s List states that the number and severity of claims against directors and officers has been rising, and concludes that greater surveillance of corporate governance is leading to more legal...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Texas Defendants Must Pay $26 Million for Defrauding State Farm
Dec 17 2001 // In Houston, U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon ordered four defendants accused of defrauding State Farm Insurance by making false claims in hundreds of staged auto accidents to pay damages to the tune of $26...
Calif. Fund Pays More than $11M in Defaulted Workers’ Comp Claims
Dec 14 2001 // California Department of Industrial Relations Director Stephen Smith has ordered the state’s Self Insurers’ Security Fund to take charge of payment of HomeBase Inc. and San Francisco French Bread Company...
Seminar Discusses Reducing Losses and Lowering Workers’ Comp Costs
Dec 11 2001 // In a seminar attended by leading Las Vegas construction company executives, Jack Schreiner of S & C Claims Services outlined how aggressive claims handling can reduce their losses and lower worker’s compensation...
California Drivers to See Some Auto Rate Increases in the New Year
Dec 10 2001 // Auto insurers across the state are making a beeline for Sacramento with their Christmas wish list for rate hikes following several years of rate cuts for California motorists. Those insurers who were chopping rates two or...
Eautoclaims Signs Up CSAA
Dec 10 2001 // EAutoclaims, a provider to the insurance industry with online claims management solutions, announced that California State Automobile Association (CSAA), the second-largest member organization of the national AAA...
Iowa Fire Damage Exceeds Original Estimate
Dec 7 2001 // A new estimate of damages from a fire in Iowa’s Old Capitol building exceeds $5 million, about $2 million more than previously estimated by Iowa City fire department officials. The University of Iowa owns the old...
Calif. Industry Said to Be Prepared for Future Disasters
Dec 6 2001 // Representatives of the insurance industry testified Wednesday before the California Assembly Insurance Committee concerning insurance and reinsurance after the attack on America. They noted that the Sept. 11 attack was...
ART Insurance Services Announces New TPA Offering for Workers’ Comp Claims
Dec 3 2001 // Advanced Risk Technologies (ART) Insurance Services, a leader in providing risk management services including loss control, first aid claims administration, and claims management services, announced a new third party...
Great American Specialy Division Offering Enhanced Claims Data Warehouse
Nov 30 2001 // The Specialty Division of Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance Company is now offering an enhanced Claims Data Warehouse over the Internet. Through secured access, insureds and agents can view summary and detailed...
ADP Claims Service Group Purchases Assets from Computer Logic
Nov 28 2001 // California-based ADP® Claims Services Group announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the assets of ComputerLogic’s® AutoVista ™ claims line of business. The AutoVista...
Disability Claims Were Teacher’s ‘Achilles Heel’
Nov 26 2001 // CDI investigators arrested a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher, Randolph Zane, on 36 counts of insurance fraud. Zane, 55, was booked on a $320,000 bail felony warrant. The San Bernardino County District...
Warrantech Corp. Enters Letter for Payment of Certain Reliance Claims
Nov 21 2001 // Warrantech Corporation, a provider for providing service contracts and aftermarket warranties has entered into a letter of intent with its current insurance company for a financial arrangement that will allow Warrantech...
NYSID, Insurers To Hold Forum on WTC Claims
Nov 19 2001 // The New York State Insurance Department and a number of leading insurance companies will hold an information forum for residents and business owners affected by the World Trade Center disaster at 6:00 PM today in The...
Silverstein Claims Pair of Losses in WTC Disaster
Nov 19 2001 // The man who held the master lease on the World Trade Center is standing by his claim that the loss of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 was two losses, not one, despite the call by insurer Swiss Re that there was only one loss...
