Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Liability Insurer Accuses Surgical Robot Maker of Hiding Injury Claims
May 27 2016 // It’s health insurers’ cardinal rule: disclose pre-existing conditions. Now comes a case in which that familiar decree involves not a patient, but rather a $1.5 million surgical robot known as the da Vinci...
Long Named Marketform’s Claims Director, Moving from XL Catlin
May 26 2016 // Marketform, the specialist Lloyd’s insurer, announce it has appointed Sharon Long to its executive team as claims director. Long’s appointment further strengthens the new leadership team that is driving the...
Swiss Re’s List of Emerging Risks Range from Blockchain Tech to Human Cyborgs
May 26 2016 // A fragmented Internet, continued experimentation with monetary policy and another round of economic crises in emerging markets top Swiss Re’s latest roundup of emerging risks to watch out for. Beyond those top three,...
ESIS Launches Healthcare Industry Risk Management Practice
May 26 2016 // ESIS, Inc., Chubb’s risk management services division, has launched a new industry practice dedicated to serving the claims and risk management needs of healthcare organizations and life sciences firms. The ESIS...
PBS/NPR Documentary Adds to Criticism of Private Insurers, FEMA Over Profits on Flood Insurance
May 25 2016 // Private insurance companies working for the government’s flood insurance program have made hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time that thousands of homeowners are claiming they have been underpaid for...
FEMA Vows Changes to Flood Insurance Claims Appeals
May 25 2016 // After learning some hard lessons from Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it is reforming the way it handles appeals from disgruntled policyholders in the National Flood Insurance Program. The...
New York AG Claims Domino’s Pizza Liable for Wage Theft by Franchisees
May 25 2016 // The New York attorney general’s office on Tuesday sued Domino’s Pizza Inc, claiming it is liable for wage theft by franchisees because the company used a computer system that it knew under-calculated...
Disaster Fraud Rampant After Floods, Hurricanes
May 24 2016 // This year, extensive flooding has already affected parts of Texas and Louisiana. With more rain producing floods in the forecast for the southern part of the U.S. this spring, the likelihood of disaster fraud...
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Sues Feds Over Failed Health Co-Op
May 23 2016 // Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart says federal health officials are unlawfully withholding millions of dollars owed to a failed health insurance co-op in his state. Gerhart, who is Liquidator for CoOportunity...
New York Auditors Find $3.45M in Faulty Workers’ Comp Claims
May 23 2016 // New York auditors report preventing 206 incorrect claims for $1.85 million in workers’ compensation and medical benefits last year while identifying 417 duplicate claims for $1.6 million paid over the past two...
XL Catlin Hires Newick as Leader for Energy, Property & Construction Claims
May 23 2016 // XL Catlin announced the strengthening of its insurance claims team with the appointment of Oliver Newick to the position of global practice leader for Energy, Property & Construction Claims. Newick joins XL Catlin from...
Pelvic Mesh Maker Alleges Doctors, Lawyers, Litigation Funders Schemed to Inflate Damage Claims
May 23 2016 // American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing “a pyramid of businessmen, doctors and lawyers” of luring women into unwarranted surgeries to...
What to Know About Travelers’ CGL Cyber Ruling
May 23 2016 // Experts are cautioning insurance buyers and sellers not to overreact to the recent federal court decision finding data breach defense coverage under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy. Buyers would be mistaken to...
Furry Friends
May 23 2016 // Members of your family – specifically those with fur and a bark – are costing the industry mega dollars. Dog bites (and other dog-related injuries) now account for more than one-third of all homeowners...
Insured Losses Mount in Ohio from April Storms
May 23 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute reports that preliminary estimates of an April storm outbreak caused insured property losses of up to $57.8 million in Ohio alone. Several other states, including Illinois and Indiana, were...
Alliant Names Umbright Workers’ Comp Claims Advocate in California
May 18 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jennifer Umbright to its Sacramento, Calif. office of as a workers’ compensation claims advocate within the company’s Alliant Americas division. Umbright will advise a...
Top 5 Workers Compensation Claims and Their Causes
May 18 2016 // Strains and sprains are the most common worker injury while worker injuries are most frequently the result of materials handling incidents, according to a review of more than 1.5 million workers compensation claims by The...
Alberta Wildfires Could Cost $7B with Minimal Insurer Credit Hit: Ratings Agencies
May 17 2016 // The Fort McMurray wildfires, which have been raging through northern Alberta, Canada since May 1, are likely to be the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, according to recent reports issued by catastrophe...
Supreme Court Ducks Religious Claims Against Obamacare Birth Control Benefit
May 16 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court backed out of a divisive clash involving religious groups that object to contraceptive coverage under Obamacare, issuing a compromise decision that said the two sides might be able to work out their...
Dog Bites Insurer
May 16 2016 // This week is National Dog Bite Prevention Week (certainly a noble cause). To celebrate this “occasion,” the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) published the most recently available dog-bite...
