Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Health Insurers’ Claims Cost Continues to Rise
Apr 26 2011 // The cost of claims in employer-sponsored health plans continues to increase, although the rate is slightly lower than six months ago. A new trend survey by Wells Fargo Insurance Services projects that overall claim cost...
Insurers Receive Hundreds of Tornado Claims in Virginia
Apr 25 2011 // Property owners in Virginia have submitted hundreds of claims to insurers for damage caused by recent tornadoes. The Virginian-Pilot reports that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. received about 400 claims by...
Claims Rep Steals $45K from Insurance Settlement
Apr 22 2011 // A claims rep for Nationwide in New York has been arrested for stealing $44,900 that should have been paid to a policyholder whose home burned down. State police arrested Scott E. Wood, of Liverpool, earlier this...
Lawsuits Fly in BP Gulf Oil Spill Blame Game
Apr 22 2011 // A barrage of court claims pitting BP Plc against its partners in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could lay the groundwork for billions of dollars in settlements to spread the costs of the disaster. BP has sued Transocean Ltd,...
Calif. Places Majestic Insurance into Conservatorship
Apr 21 2011 // Workers’ compensation insurer Majestic Insurance Co. has been placed into conservation by order of the San Francisco Superior Court. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has simultaneously filed a motion...
North Carolina Offers Mediation for Storm Claims
Apr 21 2011 // Homeowners in North Carolina whose property suffered recent storm damage but had their claims denied by their insurance company may eligible for a mediation program. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the...
Feinberg: BP Gulf Claims Fund ‘Working As Intended’
Apr 21 2011 // On the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, BP Plc is facing challenges to its effort to contain another kind of disaster: mass litigation. The oil giant last June established a $20 billion compensation fund for...
UK’s Voyager Lists ‘Top 10’ Reasons for Wedding Cancellation Insurance Claims
Apr 21 2011 // Voyager, a niche insurance specialist in the UK, has published the top ten reasons why couples claim on their wedding insurance on or prior to their big day. The bulletin noted that “unlike the era in which previous...
Ohio Non-Insured Property Exclusion Case Sent Back to Lower Court
Apr 20 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a trial court must reconsider arguments in a lawsuit over an exclusion in a homeowners’ insurance policy that bars coverage for claims “arising out of” premises...
HMO Ordered to Cover Claims in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
Apr 18 2011 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on April 1 ordered health maintenance organization Health Net Inc. to cover more than $180 million in claims by consumers, health care providers and creditors in Louisiana, Oklahoma and...
California Suspicious Insurance Claims Rise by 9% Since 2008
Apr 15 2011 // California has seen a 9 percent increase in suspicious insurance claims since 2008, according to a new report. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said questionable claims originating in California and referred to...
Mississippi AG Hood, Feinberg Spat Over BP Oil Spill Claims
Apr 15 2011 // The administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood could undermine the claims process by urging a court to intervene and by making allegations that border on...
Tennessee Valley Authority Settles Environmental Claims
Apr 15 2011 // The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will invest as much as $5 billion to reduce coal-plant emissions to settle allegations of Clean Air Act violations at 11 coal-fired power plants in three states, the U.S. Environmental...
Murdoch News Corp. Hacking Scandal Claims Mount
Apr 15 2011 // public apology from Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm, designed to contain an escalating phone-hacking scandal, looked to have failed after a judge said civil cases against the firm could run into next year at...
Texas Wind Insurance Pool Selects Polak as Interim General Manager
Apr 14 2011 // The board of the insurer of last resort for property along the Texas coast has selected John Polak as the association’s interim general manager. Polak succeeds Randy Wipf, who was named acting general manager of the...
Insurance Fraud Claims on Rise in New York
Apr 13 2011 // Suspicious insurance claims in New York were up about 4.5 percent in 2010, an industry report shows. In 2010, insurers reported a total of 7,026 questionable claims in the state, compared with 6,726 in 2009, according to...
Workers’ Comp Costs per Claim Rise in Minnesota
Apr 8 2011 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim for injured workers in Minnesota have grown, but at a slower pace than other study states, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
O’Hare Joins Texas-based Medicus as Claims Director
Apr 8 2011 // Medical professional liability insurance carrier, Austin, Texas-based Medicus Insurance, announced that James O’Hare as has joined the company as Claims director. Prior to joining Medicus, O’Hare was vice...
Westside Rapist, Former California Claims Adjuster, Gets Life Sentences
Apr 5 2011 // A former state insurance adjuster dubbed the “Westside Rapist” by police has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven women in sexual attacks that terrified Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. John...
U.S. Judge Dismisses Non-U.S. Car Buyers’ Claims Against Toyota
Apr 5 2011 // A U.S. judge said he would dismiss claims against Toyota Motor Corp. by non-U.S. car buyers who say their vehicles lost value because of manufacturing defects. Toyota has recalled 19 million vehicles globally since 2009...
