Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Google Denies Claims It Developed Tool to Spy on Its Employees
Oct 24 2019 // Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor...
Ex-DuPont CEO Claims No Intent to Burden Chemours with Unlimited Liabilities
Oct 24 2019 // DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” to its liabilities, DuPont’s former chief executive officer said, sending Chemours stock up...
Florida Specialty CEO Disputes State Regulator’s Claims, Says Insurer Not Insolvent
Oct 24 2019 // The head of recently shuttered Florida Specialty Insurance Co. says that claims by Florida’s insurance regulator that the company is insolvent are untrue. The company’s CEO, Susan Patschak, argues...
Reinsurers’ Earnings to Be Hit After 3rd Year of Major Claims: AM Best
Oct 23 2019 // Reinsurers’ earnings are likely to see further erosion in 2019 after another year of major catastrophe losses, which is prolonging the positive momentum for reinsurance pricing, according to AM Best. “Three...
Supreme Court Allows City, State Claims Against Energy Firms Over Climate Costs
Oct 23 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court let government officials press ahead with three lawsuits that accuse more than a dozen oil and gas companies of contributing to climate change. Without comment or published dissent, the high court...
Travelers Q3 Profit Falls on Asbestos, Commercial Liability and Auto Claims
Oct 22 2019 // The Travelers Companies reported net income of $396 million for the third quarter compared to $709 million in the prior year quarter. Core income in the current quarter was $378 million compared to $687 million in the...
States Vary Widely in How They Control Workers’ Comp Medical Costs: WCRI
Oct 21 2019 // Workers’ compensation medical costs vary widely among the states both in terms of price and how often services are used. The differences appear to relate closely to which cost-drivers each state legislature tried to...
J&J Settles Claims by 41 States Over Risks of Vaginal Mesh for $117 Million
Oct 18 2019 // Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million to settle 41 states’ claims that it misrepresented the risks of vaginal-mesh products used to bolster sagging organs and treat incontinence in women. A group of state...
Florida Officials Say Insurers Not Doing Enough to Settle Hurricane Michael Claims
Oct 17 2019 // It’s been just over a year since Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle, devastating the region as a Category 5 storm with 161-mph winds and causing more than $7.2 billion in estimated insured...
Pillsbury Names Giller Partner in Los Angeles, Brings Focus on Sports-related Claims
Oct 16 2019 // Richard Giller has joined Pillsbury’s insurance recovery and advisory team in Los Angeles, Calif. Giller’s practice is concentrated on the recovery of insurance benefits on behalf of both corporate and...
Bayer Anticipates Jump in Cancer Claims Linked to Roundup’s Glyphosate
Oct 16 2019 // Bayer expects the number of claims in the United States related to Roundup herbicide to have surged in the third quarter, as the German drugs and pesticides maker tries to reach a settlement after earlier court rulings...
Private Flood Insurance Growth Could be Boon for Claims Professionals
Oct 16 2019 // A nudge into the market by carriers offering private flood insurance is becoming more of a shove, which might bring new opportunities for claims adjusters and maybe create a more efficient claims process along the way. An...
J&J’s Legal Beating May Only Get Worse with Baby Powder, Opioid, Hip and Other Claims
Oct 14 2019 // Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug...
Iowa Meat Plant Pushes Back Against Claims of Micronesian Worker Mistreatment
Oct 8 2019 // An Iowa pork processing plant is working to address Micronesia’s concerns about the treatment of some of its citizens who work at the plant. Seaboard Triumph Foods said that it follows all employment laws and it is...
California Wildfire Victims in PG&E Bankruptcy See $13.5B in Claims
Oct 8 2019 // A lawyer for the committee representing wildfire victims in the bankruptcy of PG&E Corp said at a hearing on Monday that the committee sees $13.5 billion as the cost to the power provider for paying claims of the...
How Drones Are Digitally Transforming Insurance Claims Inspections and Workflows
Oct 7 2019 // Somewhere in central Michigan, a pickup truck drives into a sleepy suburban neighborhood. An autonomous drone takes flight off the truck’s flatbed and, nearly silently, heads a half-mile east, slowing above a...
Supreme Court Denies Amazon Bid to Skirt State-Based Wage Claims for Security Frisks
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Amazon.com’s bid to avoid a lawsuit seeking to ensure that warehouse workers for the e-commerce giant get paid for the time it takes them to go through extensive...
Update: Taiwan Bridge Collapse Claims 5 Lives with 1 Person Missing
Oct 3 2019 // Searchers in Taiwan have recovered five bodies and are looking for one more person missing from three fishing boats that were struck when a bridge collapsed into the water below, authorities said Wednesday. The National...
AmeriTrust Group Names McGuire as New Chief Claims Officer
Oct 2 2019 // Southfield, Michigan-based commercial insurance underwriter and insurance administration services provider, AmeriTrust Group Inc., has promoted Traci McGuire to chief claims officer. She is based in the company’s...
J&J to Pay $20.4M to Settle Ohio Counties’ Opioid Claims
Oct 2 2019 // Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it will pay $20.4 million to settle claims by two Ohio counties in a lawsuit that accused the drugmaker of contributing to an U.S. opioid addiction epidemic. The company said in a...
