Latest Claims Headlines
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McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims
Dec 2 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California. The preliminary settlement...
Texas Orthopedic Surgeon to Pay $300K to Settle False Claims, Kickback Case
Nov 27 2019 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma reported that a Texas surgeon has agreed to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he accepted illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding LLC for...
McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims
Nov 26 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California. The preliminary settlement...
Insurance Claims from Tornado in Missouri’s Jefferson City Exceed $170M
Nov 25 2019 // State insurance officials say Jefferson City, Missouri, residents made more than $170 million in insurance claims after a tornado hit the city on May 22. KMIZ reports Missouri Department of Insurance data shows insurers...
McDonald’s Employees’ Suit Claims Store Redesign Abets Workplace Violence
Nov 22 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. employees on Thursday sued the fast food giant and several of its franchisees in Chicago over a store redesign that staffers say has made it easier for angry customers to leap over the counter and...
Report Says Connecticut Has Highest Number of Metal Theft Claims in U.S.
Nov 21 2019 // A new report says Connecticut has had the most metal theft insurance claims in the country. The National Insurance Crime Bureau issued a report recently that found that Connecticut had the most metal theft insurance claims...
California Commissioner Issues Emergency Notice to Expedite Wildfire Claims
Nov 20 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday issued an emergency notice to all property/casualty insurers doing business in California requesting they expedite claims handling for wildfire survivors to help...
PG&E: Some Fire Victim Claims, Including One for 500-Pound Emerald, Seem ‘Suspicious’
Nov 20 2019 // PG&E Corp. says it has found suspicious monetary claims by victims of California’s wildfires, including one from a man who says a 500-pound (227-kilogram) emerald worth $280 million was destroyed at his home a...
Citizens CEO Notes Impact of AOB Reforms as New Rates to Take Effect in Florida
Nov 20 2019 // The head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. says it is already seeing a difference in assignment of benefits (AOB) litigation since reforms passed by the Florida Legislature took effect in July. Meanwhile, many Citizens...
Insurer Market Conduct Troubles Often Traced to Claims Handling Errors
Nov 19 2019 // Mistakes by claims professionals were the most common reason for enforcement actions taken against U.S. property and casualty insurers in 2018, taking the No. 1 and No. 2 spot on a top 10 list issued by the Wolters Kluwer...
Shareholder Suit Claims Boeing Board Liable in 737 MAX Problems
Nov 19 2019 // A shareholder lawsuit filed on Monday accused Boeing Co.’s board of doing nothing to investigate the safety of the 737 MAX until the fast-selling plane suffered a second deadly crash in five months. The lawsuit is...
Florida’s New Consumer Advocate Tackles Open Hurricane Michael Claims
Nov 19 2019 // Florida’s new Insurance Consumer Advocate Tasha Carter has been busy since taking office August 1. With more than 12,000 Hurricane Michael claims still open, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation,...
Science, Enforcement Lag as Car Accidents, Claims Rise in Legal Cannabis States
Nov 18 2019 // Car crashes in the first three states to legalize recreational marijuana have soared as law enforcement and regulators struggle to define driving high, let alone determine how to fight it. Colorado, Oregon, and Washington...
WCRI: Workers’ Comp Medical Payments in Minnesota Stable
Nov 18 2019 // A recent study by a national workers’ compensation research organization found that Minnesota workers’ compensation medical payments per claim remained stable from 2012 to 2017. The study, CompScope Medical...
Former Executive Sues MetLife Alleging Gender Bias; Insurer Denies Claims
Nov 14 2019 // A former MetLife Inc. executive claims she suffered years of gender-based pay discrimination and harassment from members of the insurer’s top leadership team and that she was fired after complaining about a lack of...
Mediation Underway Between Bayer, Plaintiffs Over Roundup Claims
Nov 14 2019 // Mediation between Bayer and plaintiffs in the United States aims to clarify all justified claims related to Roundup herbicide both at the national and state level, mediator Ken Feinberg told a German magazine. “The...
Employee Lawsuit Claims McDonald’s Fails to Address Sexual Harassment
Nov 13 2019 // Mc Donald’s Corp. was sued on Tuesday by workers in Michigan who accused the fast-food chain of allowing pervasive sexual harassment to flourish at its restaurants nationwide. The proposed class action lawsuit filed...
Drop in California Workers’ Comp Opioid Use Reducing Claims $6.5B, Report Shows
Nov 12 2019 // The prevalence of opioids in California workers’ compensation lost-time claims has dropped 51% over the past decade, reducing both average benefit payments and average days away from work on those claims, according...
Insurance Council of Australia Declares Catastrophe for New South Wales Bushfires
Nov 12 2019 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) on Nov. 9 declared a catastrophe for the bushfires blazing in northern New South Wales. The catastrophe declaration is for communities on the mid-north coast affected by bushfires...
Google Parent Company Investigating How Sexual Misconduct Claims Were Handled
Nov 7 2019 // The board of Google parent company Alphabet Inc. is investigating executives’ handling of sexual harassment and other misconduct claims, and expects to complete its probe by early December, according to a recent...
