Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-State Farm Adjusters Tell Miss. Grand Jury of Katrina Claims
Jan 23 2007 // A Mississippi grand jury probing State Farm Insurance Co.’s handling of claims after Hurricane Katrina heard testimony this week from two sisters who turned over reams of internal claims records to investigators...
WCRI Report Examines Nevada Workers’ Comp System
Jan 19 2007 // “The Nevada workers’ compensation system has undergone dramatic change since 1993” becoming more competitive and allowing private insurers to enter the market, according to the Workers’ Compensation...
Biggest U.S. Property Cat Losses in 2006 Were Away From Coasts
Jan 19 2007 // Property casualty insurers increasingly steered clear of the water out of fear of catastrophe losses during the past year. But while they were keeping a wary eye on the coasts in 2006, and escaped relatively unscathed in...
Nader Group Urges Improving Patient Safety, Removing Dangerous Doctors
Jan 17 2007 // Despite claims by business and medical lobbying interests, there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America, according to analysis released by Ralph Nader’s national group, Public Citizen. But there is a...
Okla. Emergency Declaration Allows More Claims Adjusters to Enter State
Jan 17 2007 // Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland has declared a state of emergency following the recent severe winter weather impacting all 77 counties in the state. According to the Commissioner’s release the declaration will...
IMACC Launches New Web Services, New Slogan
Jan 16 2007 // NAPERVILLE, IL – IMACC announced today that their new website is now available at http://www.imacc.net. Among the new service offerings is an Online Response Center (ORC) allowing claims to be submitted online. Users...
Judge Orders 83 Katrina Claims Cases, Including Sen. Lott’s, to Mediation
Jan 11 2007 // A federal judge on Wednesday ordered into mediation dozens of lawsuits policyholders filed against insurance companies after Hurricane Katrina. Several of the cases sent to mediation, which accuse the insurance companies...
Miss. Jury Hears Opening Statements in Katrina Suit Against State Farm
Jan 10 2007 // Even as the Mississippi attorney general negotiates a potential settlement with State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., an eight-person jury began hearing opening statements Tuesday in one of hundreds of insurance lawsuits...
Report: Nearly 20% of Customers Consider Switching Insurers After Collision
Jan 9 2007 // Nearly one out of every five customers considers switching insurance companies after experiencing the collision claim process, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Collision Repair Satisfaction...
Late storm binge has Western states singing holiday claims blues
Jan 8 2007 // While the nation was mostly natural disaster-free in 2006, the West suffered a few fourth quarter storms that took the blush off of an otherwise relatively rosy year. Beginning with Thanksgiving and heading into the New...
Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk
Jan 8 2007 // Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron...
Tenn. report highlights cost of defending medical malpractice claims
Jan 8 2007 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee result in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report. However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid accounted for...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 8 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 8 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
BOPping in on employment practices liability insurance
Jan 8 2007 // It’s the ogre hiding under the bridge. And a hungry ogre at that. The owners of many small- to mid-sized companies hope to tip-toe by without incident, but there is no ignoring the potential for trouble. The number...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 7 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
If asbestos claims were covered by claims-made insteadof occurrence forms, insurers likely would not be
Jan 7 2007 // paying claims today.
Tenn. report highlights cost of defending medical malpractice claims
Jan 7 2007 // Most medical malpractice claims closed in Tennessee result in no payment of damages to patients and their families, according to a recent report. However, the approximately 16 percent of claims that were paid accounted for...
Dissecting a claims made policy
Jan 7 2007 // You’ve heard the phrase: “If I could predict the future, I would be wealthy.” If our industry truly could do that, underwriting, rating and pricing would become the easiest tasks on the planet. Short of...
News Currents
Jan 7 2007 // Late storm binge has Western states singing holiday claims blues While the nation was mostly natural disaster-free in 2006, the West suffered a few fourth quarter storms that took the blush off of an otherwise relatively...
