Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tenn. bill seeks certification to reduce med-mal claims
Mar 26 2007 // Tennessee lawmakers are working on a compromise medical malpractice reform bill that wouldn’t set a cap on damages but would create a way to penalize lawyers who bring frivolous lawsuits. The compromise being...
FDA says cloned food safe, but could lead to non-covered claims
Mar 26 2007 // Products from cloned animals, such as milk and meat, may be safe to eat, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t insurance risks. The problem is that it’s somewhat too soon to tell what claims could arise, and...
More than just business
Mar 26 2007 // After spending most of her childhood and adolescent years growing up in foster care agencies, Rhonda Sciortino, a California independent insurance agent, felt she had to give back in the best way she knew how. In 1989,...
Court ruling indicates claims made policy language ambiguous
Mar 26 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
Class Action for Miss. Katrina ‘Slab’ Claims Denied a Third Time
Mar 26 2007 // In his decision to again disallow a class action suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. regarding “slab” claims from damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. said he...
U.S. Study Finds Majority of Medical Malpractice Claims Close Without Payment
Mar 26 2007 // The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...
FDA says cloned food safe, but could lead to non-covered claims
Mar 26 2007 // Products from cloned animals, such as milk and meat, may be safe to eat, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t insurance risks. The problem is that it’s somewhat too soon to tell what claims could arise, and...
Judge Rules Claims Made Policy Language Ambiguous
Mar 23 2007 // A recent San Diego Superior Court ruling serves as a potential warning to legal malpractice insurers to review policy language to ensure their claims made policies can’t be more broadly construed as occurrence...
In Miss., Dale Moves In with State Farm Settlement as Scruggs Withdraws
Mar 21 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 Mississippi policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and “make millions of dollars available” for additional payments, Mississippi...
Aon UK Partners with InterResolve for Liability Claims Processing
Mar 20 2007 // InterResolve, an independent claims resolution specialist, and Aon Limited, the UK division of Chicago-based Aon Corp., announced that they have concluded a partnership “to provide UK corporate businesses with faster...
Holocaust Insurance Claims Appeals Conclude; $300 Million Awarded to Survivors
Mar 20 2007 // The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) announced that its claims and appeals processes have concluded. More than $300 million in awards were distributed to more than 48,000 Holocaust...
Pa., N.J. Officials and Feds Nab Illegal Benefits Trust; Recover $1 Million
Mar 19 2007 // Through a collaboration betwee state and federal regulators, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department has helped to recover approximately $1 million in unpaid health claims for Pennsylvania policyholders, Acting Insurance...
Allstate Insurance To Open Claims Center in Cheyenne
Mar 19 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. said it intends to open a new claims center in Cheyenne, Wyo., that will bring at least 200 jobs to the city. The company plans to open an Allstate Express call center in the former Trilegiant...
Miss. Commissioner: State Farm to Reopen Katrina Claims
Mar 19 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said he has convinced State Farm to reopen and readjust all Hurricane Katrina claims in the Mississippi coastal counties upon request of policyholders. He said State Farm has...
Oregon Malpractice Claims Among Nation’s Lowest
Mar 15 2007 // Medical malpractice claim payouts in Oregon are lower than those in all but seven other states despite the elimination of a cap on such awards in 1999, a new study shows. The study researchers tried to measure the effects...
Lessons learned from Katrina and beyond
Mar 12 2007 // The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season came and went with barely a blip — despite initial projections by some that there would be two to five major hurricanes that year. How could insurance industry predictions be so...
FDA says cloned food safe, but could lead to non-covered claims
Mar 12 2007 // Products from cloned animals, such as milk and meat, may be safe to eat, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t insurance risks. The problem is that it’s somewhat too soon to tell what claims could arise, and...
San Bernardino Bishop Says Church Fund Won’t Go To Abuse Claims
Mar 9 2007 // The Diocese of San Bernardino will not use money parishioners have donated to build new churches to settle cases of clergy sexual abuse, Bishop Gerald R. Barnes said. The diocese is named in at least 17 pending lawsuits by...
Wis. American Family Pays Record $1.1 Billion in Storm Claims
Mar 8 2007 // A string of spring storms across the Midwest caused American Family Insurance Co. to pay a record $1.1 billion in storm losses last year. Other insurers, including the nation’s largest insurer, State Farm Insurance,...
Hurricane Rita’s Claims Total $5.8B in Texas and Louisiana
Mar 6 2007 // The final tally for the cost of claims from Hurricane Rita in both Louisiana and Texas came to $5.8 billion. Hurricane Rita’s 120 mile per hour winds plowed into the Texas/Louisiana border on Sept. 24, 2005, one...
