Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA: Arkansas’ Sebastian County Has Most Flood Claims, so Far
Jul 15 2019 // From April through mid-June, more than 230 claims stemming from flooding of the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas had been filed with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), according to the Federal...
The Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Jul 15 2019 // In a viral State Farm commercial, Oscar Nunez, playing the role of a friendly, helpful insurance agent, disparages any insurance company that utilizes artificial intelligence in support of customer service...
PG&E Pushes for Tax-Exempt Bond Bill for Fire Claims
Jul 12 2019 // PG&E Corp. is lobbying California legislators to allow it to issue tax-exempt bonds to help pay for past and future wildfire claims, according to people familiar with the matter. The bankrupt utility is pushing...
Why First Notice of Loss Is Key to Customer Satisfaction: Viewpoint
Jul 11 2019 // What’s worse: An incident that caused an insurance claim or the claims process itself? Ask a policy holder who has recently lived through a homeowners’ insurance claim process and the results might not be as...
Claims Industry Consolidation Continues with Sedgwick’s Purchase of York
Jul 10 2019 // Sedgwick Group announced this week that it has signed an agreement to purchase York Risk Services, continuing a long-term consolidation trend among third-party administrators. The purchase of York — which must be...
Southern California Quakes Push Interest in Coverage
Jul 9 2019 // Visits to the California Earthquake Authority website reportedly increased by nearly 10 times normal following the largest earthquakes to hit Southern California in 20 years. The quakes over 4th of July holiday weekend...
FEMA: As of Mid-June, Arkansas’ Sebastian County Had Most Flood Claims
Jul 9 2019 // From April through mid-June, more than 230 claims stemming from flooding of the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas had been filed with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), according to the Federal...
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Sues Insurers Over Future Abuse Claims
Jul 8 2019 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has sued more than two dozen insurance companies, seeking to compel them to cover claims filed by people who say they were abused by clerics. Church officials anticipate that...
Little Rock Diocese Settles Sexual Abuse Claims for $790K
Jul 3 2019 // Lawyers for five men who claim an Arkansas priest sexually abused them more than four decades ago said that the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock has settled after mediation in what the attorneys believe is a first of its...
New Jersey Woman Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud
Jul 1 2019 // A Bergen County, N.J., woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for filing phony insurance claims for losses she purportedly sustained during Superstorm Sandy and for filing a false bankruptcy application to shed...
30% of Disaster Claims Settled After Desk Audit Using Munich Re Remote Tool, Images
Jul 1 2019 // Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics tool that can quickly assess property damage after natural catastrophes and speed up claims...
Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’
Jul 1 2019 // Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and wants a judge to block the chemical maker’s requests for...
AXA XL Enhances Environmental Insurance Coverage
Jul 1 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability policy. The policy is designed to provide protection to owners, operators and...
Preparing for the Unpredictable Talent Considerations for CAT Season
Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...
New Federal Study Contradicts Owner’s Claims About Years-Long Gulf Oil Spill
Jun 26 2019 // A new federally led study of oil seeping from a platform toppled off Louisiana’s coast 141/2 years ago found releases lower than other recent estimates, but contradicts the well owner’s assertions about the...
Topa in California Names Yates Assistant Vice President of Claims
Jun 25 2019 // Topa Insurance Co. has named Kelly Yates assistant vice president of claims. Yates will be located in Topa’s Calabasas, Calif. office. Yates has oversight of Topa’s property and commercial auto business and its...
JetBlue Lawsuit Claims Walmart Violates Its Trademark with Jetblack Service
Jun 25 2019 // JetBlue Airways Corp. has sued Walmart Inc. for trademark infringement, in an effort to stop the world’s largest retailer from using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service. In a complaint...
AXA XL Enhances Environmental Insurance Coverage
Jun 24 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability (PARLL) policy which provides protection to owners, operators and developers of fixed...
PG&E Settles for $1B with Local Governments for California Fire Claims
Jun 19 2019 // PG&E Corp. will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the governments said on...
Sen. Rubio Bill Would Block Patent Damage Claims by Foreign Firms on Watch List
Jun 18 2019 // U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would prevent Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts, after the Chinese firm demanded that Verizon Communications Inc. pay $1...
