Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Claims Higher Among Those Who Have Filed Previously
Dec 26 2000 // Workers who return to work after a lost-time injury are more than twice as likely to file another workers’ compensation claim for a subsequent injury than other workers at the same company, according to a study by...
ISO to Acquire Claims Outcome Advisor
Dec 26 2000 // Insurance Services Office has entered into an agreement with Computer Sciences Corp. based in El Segundo, Calif. And Mynd Corp., based in Columbia, S.C., to acquire Claims Outcome Advisor, a bodily-injury claims-management...
Insurer Groups File Another Lawsuit Against SB 1899
Dec 21 2000 // Another lawsuit was filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against SB 1899. Authored by Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco), and signed into law by Governor Davis, SB 1899 allows certain...
HNC Software Releases Three Web-Enabled Tools for EDI in Workers’ Comp
Dec 7 2000 // HNC Insurance Solutions, a division of San Diego, Calif.-based HNC Software, and a provider of solutions for electronic data interchange (EDI) for the workers’ compensation insurance industry, released two new...
Ohio Workers’ Comp System Looking Better, WCRI Study Says
Nov 28 2000 // Significant changes in Ohio have enhanced the performance of the state’s workers’ comp system, particularly in speeding the payments of benefits to injured workers, but there are opportunities for further...
Claims Direct Faces Customer Complaints
Nov 27 2000 // U.K. on-line personal injury service provider Claims Direct announced that it is setting aside £5 million ($7 million) to settle complaints from customers that they were shortchanged on settlements negotiated with...
ABI Sets Minimum Claims Standards
Nov 22 2000 // In an effort aimed at “picking out the cowboys” in the U.K.’s insurance industry the Association of British Insurers has adopted a new code, that will come in to force on the first of January 2001,...
MOLD in Buildings
Nov 20 2000 // Creates New Frontier in Construction Defect Litigation, Definition of Pollution At the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic tort litigation is an...
Holocaust Claims: Generali To Pay $100 Million, ICHEIC Finds German Policies
Nov 17 2000 // Several important developments were reported following a recently concluded two-day meeting in Rome of the International Commission for Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC). Commission Chairman Lawrence Eagleburger, a...
Special Investigative Units Battle Insurance Fraud, ‘Crime of the ’90s’
Nov 13 2000 // People outside the industry are always surprised to learn how much fraud insurance companies are actually forced to deal with. It wasn’t until fairly recently, in the late 1980s, that insurance companies and local,...
Age Discrimination
Nov 6 2000 // The 1990s were a time of turbulence for businesses as employers faced corporate restructuring, seasonal layoffs and reductions in force. The changing workplace relationships brought about both an increase in age...
Legal Malpractice Insurance
Nov 6 2000 // There are a huge number of lawyers in Texas. Many of them are not very good. For every lawyer there is probably at least one paralegal. Many of them are as proficient as the lawyers they assist, though usually less...
Today’s AGING Workforce is Ripe with Potential for Age Discrimination Claims
Oct 30 2000 // The 1990s were a time of turbulence for businesses as employers faced corporate restructuring, seasonal layoffs and reductions in force (RIF). The changing workplace relationships brought about both an increase in age...
Independent currents:Scary E&O Stories (Just in Time for Halloween!)
Oct 30 2000 // I’ve sat in classes taught by Jim Harrison (insert two dozen professional designations here), one of the best insurance educators in the country. He has this little shtick that wakes up the class. He tells an ugly...
Independent currents Scary E&O Stories (Just in Time for Halloween!)
Oct 30 2000 // I’ve sat in classes taught by Jim Harrison (insert two dozen professional designations here), one of the best insurance educators in the country. He has this little shtick that wakes up the class. He tells an ugly...
Mold Claims Create a New Frontier in Constuction Defect Litigation
Oct 2 2000 // Mold. An extremely common organism, it’s found in veritably every home and building. Now it’s at the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic...
Industry Tallies Ohio Tornado Losses
Sep 28 2000 // The combined damage caused by a tornado that ripped through Xenia, Ohio Sept. 20 and storms in several other counties, has been estimated at more than $33 million in insured losses, according to the the Ohio Insurance...
GuideOne to Close 7 Claims Offices; Sell Portion of Auto Book to GMAC
Sep 14 2000 // GuideOne Insurance will close seven of its 12 national claims offices next year, and will sell a portion of its high-risk auto insurance to GMAC Insurance. GMAC, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is expected to buy...
Kemper to Offer Automatic Subrogation Notification
Sep 13 2000 // The Kemper Insurance Companies has become the first company to license HNC Insurance Solutions’ new VeriComp Subro software system, which automatically identifies and notifies carriers of claims with a high potential...
Equitas Head Warns on Asbestos Claims
Sep 12 2000 // Hugh Stevenson, Chairman of Equitas, the vehicle set up by Lloyd’s in 1996 to runoff liabilities, principally asbestos and industrial pollution claims for years prior to 1993, issued a warning at the annual meeting...
