Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
12,000-Plus Claims Filed for Hail Damage in Colorado
Jun 18 2018 // Insurance companies say they have received more than 12,000 claims for damage to vehicles and houses in Colorado Springs, Colo. after the city’s worst hail storm in 20 years. The Colorado Springs Gazette reported the...
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Jun 18 2018 // Chicago-based CNA appointed Bruce Dmytrow to senior vice president, Healthcare. He reports to Kevin Smith, president and chief operating officer, CNA Specialty. Dmytrow joined CNA in 1995, most recently serving as vice...
Farmers in California Names Howard as Chief Claims Officer
Jun 13 2018 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers Insurance has been named Rob Howard chief claims officer Howard was head of claims shared services. He joined Farmers in 1987 as a claims representative in St. Louis, Mo., relocating to...
Texas Workers’ Comp Study: 40% of Claimants Have Previous Work Injuries
Jun 8 2018 // There are about 200,000 new claims in each year in the Texas workers’ compensation system, representing about 2 percent of covered Texas employees. About 40 percent of those new claims involve claimants who have had...
Equity Insurance Company Announces New Claims Manager
Jun 7 2018 // Tulsa, OK, June 7, 2018– Equity Insurance Company is pleased to announce that Scott Cooper has been promoted to the position of Claims Manager, effective May 16, 2018. Mr. Cooper has most recently served as...
Judge Rules Bankrupt Weinstein Co. Must Face Sexual Harassment Claims
Jun 6 2018 // Weinstein Co. must return to New York court to face a lawsuit by women who say the firm is responsible for alleged sexual misconduct by founder Harvey Weinstein, a federal judge ruled. The bankrupt film company is no...
Distribution Overpowers Underwriting. How CNA Ex-CEO Chookaszian Views Industry’s Past, Present and Future
Jun 1 2018 // The former chief executive of an insurance company believes the center of value of the property/casualty industry has shifted away from one of the activities that would seem to define an insurance risk-taking enterprise:...
What the Florida Industry Needs to Know for the 2018 Hurricane Season
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
Army Officer in Alaska Charged with Making Fraudulent Claims
May 29 2018 // A 40-year-old Army officer assigned to Alaska has been charged with making false insurance claims and pocketing nearly $400,000. Lt. Col. Christopher James DeMure is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money...
Farmers Group in California Names Daly President of Personal Lines
May 22 2018 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Farmers Group Inc. has named Keith Daly president of personal lines. Daly, who is currently Farmers’ chief claims officer, takes the new post effective June 11. He joined Farmers in 2009...
Supreme Court Pro-Arbitration Ruling a Big Win for Employers
May 22 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for...
Icahn Sues AmTrust Directors, Claims Privatization Plan Hurts Investors
May 21 2018 // Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sued the directors of AmTrust Financial Services Inc., Chief Executive Officer Barry Zyskind and the family that controls the insurer to challenge a plan to take the insurer private, arguing...
Supreme Court Backs Employers on Forced Arbitration, Limiting Employee Class Actions
May 21 2018 // A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims. The decision potentially limits the rights of tens of millions of...
Channel Harvest Survey: Where Do Carriers Fall Short of Agent Expectations?
May 21 2018 // There appears to be a misalignment between carrier performance and independent agents’ expectations in both personal and commercial lines. These are selected findings of “Agent Voices 2018,” a...
Minnesota Paid Workers’ Comp Claims Drop by Over 50% in 2 Decades
May 21 2018 // A recent report shows the number of paid workers’ compensation claims in Minnesota fell 54 percent relative to the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees from 1996 to 2016. The 2016 Minnesota Workers’...
Claims Against Texas-Based Karolyis Not Addressed in $500M Nassar Settlement
May 18 2018 // The $500 million settlement Michigan State University reached with more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar doesn’t address claims against other parties, including...
Top 10 Agribusiness Insurance Claims
May 16 2018 // Motor vehicle accidents are the most common agribusiness insurance claim, according to insurer Nationwide. The Ohio-based insurer, the nation’s largest insurer of farms, said that over the last three years, the top...
Lawsuit Claims Hawaii Mall Officials Knew About Faulty Rail
May 16 2018 // Lawyers who have filed a lawsuit against the parent company of Hawaii’s Ala Moana Center say mall officials were warned about a railing years before it gave way, killing a young man and leaving another with a...
Judge Scolds Facebook for ‘Faulty Proposition’ Over Privacy Claims
May 15 2018 // A judge scolded Facebook Inc. for misconstruing his own rulings as he ordered the company to face a high-stakes trial accusing it of violating user privacy. The social media giant has misinterpreted prior court orders by...
Uber Drops Arbitration, Confidentiality Requirements for Sexual Assault Claims
May 15 2018 // Uber Technologies Inc. said on Tuesday sexual harassment or assault victims will have the option to settle claims with the ride-hailing service without a confidentiality provision that prevents them from speaking about the...
