Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lawsuit Seeks Information on Michigan Auto Injury Claims
Jan 25 2012 // A coalition fighting proposed changes to Michigan’s auto insurance laws filed a lawsuit seeking claims information from an association that handles medical bills for seriously injured accident victims. The suit filed...
Pennsylvania Whistleblower Claims Hospital Medicare Fraud
Jan 24 2012 // A former northwestern Pennsylvania cardiologist says in a lawsuit a hospital improperly paid doctors who performed unnecessary procedures on patients, including two who died. The suit filed this month by Dr. Tullio...
E&O Insights: Why Your Agency Should Recommend Employment Practices Liability Coverage
Jan 23 2012 // Employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) has been around since the early 1990s, mostly due to the passage of the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act. Some of the latest information noted on various websites puts...
How Workers’ Comp Is Handling Aging Workforce
Jan 23 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...
Insurers Brace for Cold Weather Claims
Jan 21 2012 // Though summer weather is associated with devastating catastrophe losses, the winter season can be equally busy from a claims perspective. The third-largest cause of catastrophic losses behind hurricanes and tornadoes,...
Consumer Group Publishes ‘Insiders’ Advice’ on Filing Auto Claims
Jan 20 2012 // The Consumer Federation of America, a Washington, D.C.-based group whose insurance division is directed by consumer advocate J. Robert Hunter, recently published a guide with “insiders’ advice” on filing...
Concordia Disaster Could Cost Insurers $1 Billion
Jan 19 2012 // The capsizing of the Costa Concordia could not have come at a worse time for the cruise industry — right at the start of the peak booking season. Even if passengers aren’t scared away, the accident will cost...
N.J. Siblings Indicted for Auto Insurance Claims Fraud
Jan 19 2012 // Authorities in New Jersey announced last week that a Union City woman and her Jersey City brother were indicted for their alleged roles in a scheme to submit false auto insurance claims. According to Acting Insurance Fraud...
News Corp. Admits Guilt, Settles Hacking Claims
Jan 19 2012 // The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Names New Controller and VP of Claims
Jan 18 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) recently named Pete Gise as controller and David Williams as vice president of claims. As controller, Gise manages financial reporting, accounts receivable processing and...
Workers’ Comp Official Claims Iowa Governor Illegally Cut His Pay
Jan 13 2012 // A state workers’ compensation commissioner has filed a lawsuit accusing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad of discrimination because the governor cut his salary by more than $30,000 after he declined to resign. Iowa...
UK Panel Seeks to Reign in Whiplash Claims; ABI, RSA Comment
Jan 13 2012 // A report from the UK Government’s Transport Select Committee targets the voraciously expanding number of claims for “whiplash,” i.e. soft tissue injuries, as badly in need of reforms. These types of...
Some Work Comp Claims in Michigan Must First Go to Mediation
Jan 12 2012 // Michigan workers’ compensation insurance regulators report that due to recent statutory changes some contested workers’ compensation claims will be assigned to mediation. Michigan Workers’ Compensation...
Florida Lawmakers Advance Brain Injury, Wrongly Imprisoned Claims Bills
Jan 12 2012 // A man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit and the brain-damaged and paralyzed victim of a crash with a speeding sheriff’s deputy who was late for work would receive millions in...
Australia’s QBE Slashes 2011 Forecast; Shares Dive
Jan 12 2012 // Australia’s QBE Insurance Group said on Thursday its 2011 net profit would fall by as much as 50 percent after record catastrophe claims and it would cut its final dividend, sending its shares down as much as a...
Lawsuit Claims Hazing on Mississippi High School Baseball Team
Jan 11 2012 // Members of a south Mississippi high school baseball team participated in a hazing ritual that left one teenager hospitalized after being held from behind and punched in the chest, according to a lawsuit filed by the...
Boston Lawsuit Claims DES-Breast Cancer Link
Jan 10 2012 // Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age...
Supreme Court Walmart Ruling Shakes Up Employment Class Actions
Jan 10 2012 // The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived up to the hype. Since the Court issued the Dukes decision in June, it has been cited by...
Judge Dismisses Most Claims in New Mexico Gay Bias Lawsuit
Jan 9 2012 // A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a New Mexico lawsuit by two women who alleged their daughter’s teacher discriminated against the girl because her parents are gay. Shannon Peterson and Jessica Bissell sued...
Flood Insurers Asked to Quickly Process Remaining Claims
Jan 9 2012 // U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) asked flood insurance companies to quickly process remaining claims from Irene and Lee. He says some 20 percent of the claims in Pennsylvania are still not processed. Federal flood...
