Latest Claims Headlines
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Judge: BP, Anadarko, Transocean May Be Liable for Oil Pollution Claims
Feb 23 2012 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are liable and Transocean Ltd. may be liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled. Wednesday’s...
ACM Continues Expansion with Opening of Tampa Bay Office
Feb 23 2012 // San Diego, CA, 02/23/12 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator, has opened an additional office in Tampa Bay, Florida to leverage the Company’s growth in its East Coast,...
South Carolina’s Small Glass Shops Seek to Crack Giant Safelite’s Clout
Feb 23 2012 // How automotive glass repair companies are allowed to access glass claims has become a contentious issue in South Carolina where independent shops are trying to break a national company’s hold on the market. South...
AIG’s Chartis Appoints Head of New Claims, Operations Division
Feb 22 2012 // American International Group’s Chartis, its global P/C business, has placed its claims unit and operations and systems (O&S) unit under a single management team. Eric Martinez — appointed as executive vice...
5 States May Intervene in California Honda Small Claims Case
Feb 21 2012 // A judge last week granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
Cruise Ship Industry Leaves Crash Victims Little Hope for Recovery
Feb 21 2012 // When Walter Henry Alderfer learned last month about the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy, it brought back bad memories. In April 2007, he, his wife and his daughter were aboard the Sea Diamond cruise ship when it struck...
How Workers’ Comp Is Handling Aging Workforce
Feb 20 2012 // The aging workforce may not have the negative impact on loss costs that workers’ compensation insurers have feared. New research from the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) also...
Is Common Law Bad Faith Dying in Texas?
Feb 20 2012 // When a carrier is sued for denying a claim, it is usual for policyholders to raise claims of bad faith. For decades now, policyholders have frequently pled both common law (i.e., law created by cases) and statutory (i.e.,...
Fairfax Financial’s Quarterly Loss Widens on Cat Claims
Feb 17 2012 // Fairfax Financial Holdings, the property and casualty insurer run by investment guru Prem Watsa, said on Thursday that its fourth-quarter loss widened by 56 percent due to catastrophe claims and losses on the...
P/C Industry Disputes Consumer Group’s Claims It’s Avoiding Risk
Feb 17 2012 // Traditionally risk-takers, property/casualty insurance companies have become more like risk-avoiders when it comes to weather-related claims, leaving consumers and taxpayers to pay much higher costs, according to a new...
Lawsuit Claims Oahu Pet Store Lopped Off Dog Ear, Cut Tail
Feb 16 2012 // Two dog owners filed a lawsuit claiming their pets were mutilated while being groomed at an Oahu pet store. The lawsuit filed in state court Monday said plaintiff Gladys Kapuwai dropped off her dog Dodo for grooming at the...
Minnesota Company Seeks Law Change on Asbestos Claims
Feb 16 2012 // A company with three manufacturing plants in southern Minnesota wants a change in state law in order to shield itself from future asbestos claims. Crown Holdings Inc. says its 1963 merger with a rival company left it with...
Citigroup to Pay $158M in Whistleblower Fraud Claim Over Insurance for Mortgages
Feb 16 2012 // Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $158.3 million to settle U.S. civil claims that it defrauded the government into insuring thousands of risky home loans made by its CitiMortgage unit. Wednesday’s settlement resolves...
Florida Bill Seeks to Curb Medical Malpractice Claims
Feb 15 2012 // The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is pushing ahead this year with changes meant to curb medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors. This effort is being criticized as an attack on the privacy rights of...
Lloyd’s Estimates Thai Flood Losses at $2.2 Billion
Feb 14 2012 // Lloyd’s announced that it is estimating its overall net claims from the flooding in Thailand last year to be in the $2.2 billion range. The figure is based on an industry loss estimate of between $15 and $20...
Chinese Firm Claims It Owns Apple’s iPad Trademark
Feb 14 2012 // A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc.’s computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said. If successful, the move could deal a blow to the...
BP Wins Dismissal of Part of Investor Lawsuit Over Gulf Oil Spill
Feb 13 2012 // A U.S. federal judge dismissed a large part of a nationwide lawsuit accusing BP Plc and top executives of fraud for misleading shareholders before and after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill about the oil company’s...
China Author Sues for Defamation Over Ghostwriting Claims
Feb 13 2012 // Celebrity author Han Han has filed a defamation lawsuit in Shanghai against a writer who alleges some of Han’s prolific works were penned by others. Han, a novelist and semiprofessional race-car driver popular among...
Louisiana Citizens Offers to Settle Katrina-Rita Suit for $80M
Feb 13 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over slow handling of hurricane claims from 2005 for up to $80 million, with no more than $25 million of that for attorneys’ fees —...
Lawsuit: Payment Denied For Seniors’ Home Care
Feb 10 2012 // A lawsuit contends that a health insurer ran a scheme to avoid paying in-home care claims from what could be thousands of California’s elderly residents. Senior Health Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania, or SHIP, had a...
