Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Judge Warns Lawyers: You Pay If Claims Found Frivolous
Sep 12 2016 // Lawyers who defend companies in product liability cases are celebrating an unusual order by a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia. In it, he told attorneys for the other side—the ones who represent injured...
Chipotle Quietly Settles Sick Customers’ Claims Out of Court
Sep 9 2016 // Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to financial settlements with more than 100 customers who fell ill after eating at its restaurants last year, lawyers for the consumers said, as it attempts to move on from a string of...
Willis to Pay $120 Million to Settle Claims Over Stanford Ponzi Scheme Role
Sep 9 2016 // The insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson Plc has agreed to pay $120 million to settle litigation accusing it of helping now-imprisoned Texas financier Allen Stanford run a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme, court papers...
Appeals Court Grants Uber Pro-Arbitration Ruling, Thwarting Drivers’ Class Action
Sep 7 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s arbitration agreements were largely ruled by an appeals court to be valid and enforceable in a blow to driver efforts to secure the benefits and protections of employees in California. The...
Court Allows Banana Farmers’ Toxic Pesticide Claims Against Fruit, Chemical Firms
Sep 7 2016 // Hundreds of banana farmers from Central America and South America will again have their day in court, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday revived six lawsuits accusing several big fruit and chemical companies of sickening...
Fitch: No Credit Implications for Florida State-Run Insurers From Hermine
Sep 7 2016 // Hurricane Hermine, the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years, is not likely to have a significant impact on the financial condition of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) or Citizens’...
Uber Must Face Claims of Creating Fake Lyft Accounts
Sep 6 2016 // While Uber Technologies Inc. fights to keep its own drivers out of court with their grievances, it can’t force arbitration on Lyft Inc. drivers who accuse the ride-hailing behemoth of dirty tricks. Uber will have to...
Filling the Gap in Contractors Professional and Pollution Liability
Sep 6 2016 // Coverage Part A of the Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy is limited in scope, extending coverage to claims arising out of only bodily injury (BI) and/or property damage (PD). Couple Part A’s limited scope...
Uber-Like Video Service DropIn Lets Adjusters Assess Damage from Their Desks
Sep 2 2016 // A new service promises to provide insurance claims adjusters with videos of losses without them ever having to leave their desks. The videos would be supplied by an Uber-like network of smartphone users and, eventually,...
Cat Bonds Match Traditional Reinsurers on Reliability Scale: S&P
Sep 1 2016 // Some traditional reinsurers have asserted that catastrophe bonds are unreliable in terms of paying claims after major events. A new Standard & Poor’s article rebukes that idea. “We have explored the claims...
How Florida Insurers Can Prepare for Claims from a Major Hurricane
Aug 31 2016 // After eight hurricanes in two years between 2004 and 2005, we haven’t seen a hurricane in Florida for over 10 years. Has the state learned from those storms? Are the insurance companies ready? What about the...
Navigators Appoints New Leadership for Claims Operations
Aug 29 2016 // The Navigators Group Inc. has restructured its leadership team for its global claims organization. Glen Bronstein has been promoted to the newly created role of global chief claims officer. Bronstein joined Navigators to...
New Zealand Claims World’s First Pizza Delivery by Drone
Aug 25 2016 // New Zealand led the world when it gave women the vote and introduced inflation targeting. Now it’s claiming another world-first: pizza delivery by drone. Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd. has joined forces with...
Flood Claims Mount; FEMA Extends Insurance Renewal Period for Some in Louisiana
Aug 23 2016 // Due to the damage and displacement caused by recent flooding, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended to 120 days the grace period to renew flood insurance policies in certain Louisiana parishes. The...
Soft Prices May Bring Reinsurer Losses when Typical Cat Levels Return: Execs
Aug 23 2016 // It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors such as hedge funds have eroded prices so much that a typical year of claims could...
FEMA Claims Mississippi Misused $30M in Funds to Retrofit Homes After Katrina
Aug 23 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it won’t repay Mississippi for nearly $30 million spent to retrofit homes after Hurricane Katrina unless the state can prove the money was well spent. The state failed to...
Failure of Uber Settlement Opens Door for Wage Claims
Aug 22 2016 // The rejection of a $100 million settlement with drivers comes with plenty of silver linings for Uber Technologies Inc. The gray cloud for the ride-hailing company is that a dozen or so lawsuits that would have been...
Judge Nixes $100M Driver Settlement But Uber May Win in End
Aug 19 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. may come out ahead by failing to win court approval of a $100 million settlement with drivers. A San Francisco federal judge rejected the agreement on Thursday, a turn of events that would typically...
Debt Collectors Cleared to Avoid Liability by Buying Out Claims
Aug 18 2016 // Can a debt collector accused of crossing the line avoid liability by buying a consumer’s legal claim out from under her? A federal judge in Las Vegas said yes. The case deserves attention because if the U.S. Court of...
Reinsurers May Reassess Cat Exposures When Normal Claims Levels Return: S&P
Aug 17 2016 // Most global reinsurers have been able to maintain underwriting discipline despite the ongoing soft market, but there is a danger that their profits could be hit if the current benign period of natural catastrophes returns...
