Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Bad Publicity Shakes Claims Direct
Jan 26 2001 // The U.K.’s Claims Direct, an online insurance claims settlement service, has seen its business nosedive and its publicly held shares fall 55 percent following reports that it charged excessively high costs and fees...
Lloyd’s Sees No Major Insurance Claims From Power Crisis
Jan 22 2001 // Julian James, Head of Lloyd’s worldwide markets, said that while he saw no “major insurance claims” arising from California’s current power crisis, he anticipated a rise in claims against directors...
NAII To File Amicus Brief in Claims Handling Case
Jan 19 2001 // The California Court of Appeal has requested that the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) file an amicus brief in a case that addresses controversial public policy issues regarding claims handling and...
SPEEDING UP THE PROCESS
Jan 15 2001 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn issued a final report on the international effort to recover Holocaust Era insurance policies, urging an international commission to speed up its claims process and force...
Washington Report Urges International Commission to Speed Up Holocaust Claims Process, Publish Names
Jan 9 2001 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn has issued a final report on the international effort to recover Holocaust Era insurance policies, urging an international commission to speed up its claims process and force...
Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
U.K. Claims Code In Force, As Weather Hits New Year Celebrations
Jan 2 2001 // Rain snow and arctic weather hit the British Isles over the New Year’s weekend, causing some damage, snarling transport, and leading to the cancellation of many planned celebrations. U.K. insurers anticipate a number...
New Classes of Megatort Claims Seen Confronting Industry
Dec 28 2000 // Potential claims from asbestos, pollution and tobacco will continue to challenge the insurance industry in coming years, panelists told the Casualty Actuarial Society annual meeting in Washington, D.C. After stabilizing in...
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...
