Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Claims Adjuster and Chiropractor Arrested in $1.6M Operation
Oct 28 2020 // Claims adjuster, Agop Sarafian, 65, of La Crescenta, Calif., and chiropractor, Shahe Topjian, D.C. 65, of Granada Hills, Calif., were arrested on felony insurance fraud charges after allegedly conspiring to defraud...
Workers’ Compensation Should See Profit This Year But Maybe Not in 2021: Fitch
Oct 27 2020 // Despite the economic challenges from the coronavirus pandemic, the workers’ compensation insurance market is likely to report strong profitability in 2020 thanks to savings from lower claims frequency due that are...
McDonald’s Seeks Dismissal of Racial Bias Claims by Black Former Franchise Owners
Oct 26 2020 // McDonald’s Corp. on Friday urged a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by dozens of Black former franchise owners who accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination for selling them underperforming stores, saying...
Report: Few Virus Cases in Working Age Californians Result in Comp Claims
Oct 23 2020 // Only one-in-14 COVID-19 cases involving working-age Californians from May through September of 2020 has been claimed as a job injury, while only 1-in-25 COVID-19 deaths among working age individuals has been claimed to be...
Pennsylvania Justices Review Priest Abuse Lawsuit’s Ruling on Time Limits
Oct 23 2020 // Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday grappled with whether a woman’s lawsuit on claims of sexual abuse by a priest decades ago should be allowed to proceed – a lower-court ruling that has launched many...
Auto Insurance Claims Satisfaction Continued to Rise During Pandemic
Oct 22 2020 // Having fewer auto insurance claims during the coronavirus pandemic appears to have given insurers time to refine their customer experience and deliver higher higher quality claims service. According to the J.D. Power 2020...
Aspen Names Hiscox’s Rai as Head of Claims for Aspen Ins. UK, Aspen Managing Agency
Oct 19 2020 // Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. has appointed Tony Rai as head of claims for Aspen Insurance UK (AIUK) and Aspen Managing Agency Ltd. (AMAL). Tony Rai Rai will join Aspen in early 2021 from Hiscox, where he has been head of...
Vast Majority of COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claims Are Small, Says NCCI
Oct 19 2020 // If COVID-19 behaves like other workers’ compensation lung and disease claims, about two out of 100 cases may result in some degree of permanent partial disability and one out of 2,000 may result in permanent total...
Replacement Cost and the 180-Day Limitation Myth
Oct 19 2020 // What’s the best way to launch this article? Don’t know if I should say I’m itching for a fight or if it’s better to say insurance carriers are misinterpreting coverage forms and I am trying to stop...
Malpractice Claims Against Hospitals Hold Steady But Severity Increases
Oct 16 2020 // The frequency of hospital professional liability claims is holding steady, but the cost of those claims is expected to increase by 3% next year, according to an actuarial analysis by Aon and the American Society of Health...
Former Catholic School Principal in W. Va. Claims He Was Fired for Reporting Abuse
Oct 13 2020 // A former principal at a West Virginia Catholic high school filed a wrongful termination lawsuit last month against a diocese, alleging he was let go for reporting complaints of inappropriate contact involving a priest and...
Top 10 Reasons P/C Insurers Run Afoul of Regulators’ Market Conduct Exams
Oct 8 2020 // Claims errors continue to be the most frequent reason that property/casualty insurers are cited by regulators when responding to market conduct complaints or during routine examinations, according to a report by Wolters...
Tennessee Releases App to Help Injured Workers File Comp Claims
Oct 8 2020 // Tennesseans have a new tool to help them file workers’ compensation claims – an app that lets them fill out key forms by speaking into a smartphone. It was developed after a study found that filling out the...
How Coronavirus Is Changing Claims, Risks, Work, Habits, Supply Chains and More
Oct 7 2020 // The magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic as an economic loss events is unprecedented for companies and insurers alike and claims trends and risk exposures are likely to evolve in both the mid- and long-term as a result of...
Hollywood’s Insurer Braces for Claims Due to COVID-Related Movie, TV Shutdowns
Oct 6 2020 // Allianz SE, Europe’s largest insurer, is bracing for a flood of claims after movie and television studios were forced to curtail production during lockdown. A unit of Allianz, which says it’s the largest...
D&O Pressured But Insurers Big Enough to Handle: Fitch
Oct 5 2020 // As claims related to the economic fallout from the pandemic emerge in the U.S. directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance segment, insurers can expect the claims to take several years to pay out and underwriting...
Judges Nix Consolidating COVID Business Interruption Suits Against Big Insurers
Oct 4 2020 // A panel of federal judges has decided against consolidation of hundreds of lawsuits seeking coverage for coronavirus-related business interruption claims against major national insurers Travelers, The Hartford, Cincinnati...
Sedgwick Acquires Portuguese Loss Adjusting and Claims Management Firm
Oct 1 2020 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, has acquired Perigest, a loss adjusting and claims management company in Portugal. “The transaction represents an...
Texas Workers’ Comp Networks Have Lower Medical Costs Than Non-Networks
Sep 30 2020 // Texas workers’ compensation claims handled through health care networks have lower medical costs than those managed outside networks, a state report finds. The Texas Department of Insurance has published its 2020...
Georgia Supreme Court Allows Lawsuit Against Sperm Bank to Proceed
Sep 30 2020 // A couple who accused a sperm bank of misrepresenting its process for screening donors and providing incorrect medical and educational history of the donor they selected can proceed with a lawsuit against the sperm bank,...
