Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Fellow Drugmakers Eye Purdue’s Bankruptcy As Way to Settle Opioid Claims: WSJ
Oct 1 2019 // Endo International Plc, Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers that face litigation over the opioid crisis are exploring a way to settle the cases by participating in Purdue Pharma LP’s bankruptcy, the Wall...
Lloyd’s Reveals Blueprint to Build ‘Most Advanced Insurance Marketplace’
Sep 30 2019 // Lloyd’s of London has unveiled a blueprint for action to facilitate its Future at Lloyd’s project, which aims to “build the most advanced insurance marketplace in the world.” This first blueprint,...
AI Specialist omni:us Awarded €1.6M from EU to Enhance AI-Powered Claims Platform
Sep 26 2019 // Artificial intelligence provider, omni:us has been awarded €1.6 million ($1.8 million) from the European Commission* to help it further develop its machine learning powered insurance claims platform. The grant to...
Minneapolis Federal Reserve: With Flooding Comes a Torrent of Data
Sep 24 2019 // One of the biggest problems with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance program is that, nationwide, few property owners actually choose to buy into it. But that’s not the case in many...
Travelers Gives Agents Aerial Property Damage Viewer to Expedite Disaster Claims
Sep 24 2019 // Property/casualty insurer Travelers is now providing its insurance agents and brokers with before-and-after photos of areas affected by disasters. The Travelers Catastrophe Map Viewer provides access to searchable,...
Cannabis Risk Management Group Wants to Impact Claims Via Best Practices
Sep 19 2019 // Buying some green bud at a dispensary shouldn’t be much different than purchasing a green pepper at the supermarket. That’s how Rocco Petrilli, a long-time insurance and risk management consultant to the auto...
California Retailer to Pay $1.2M to Settle Sex-Assault Claims
Sep 19 2019 // A Northern California store as agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle claims that a supervisor sexually assaulted employees in a walk-in freezer. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced a...
BHSI Taps Executives from AIG and AXA XL as Claims & Product Line Leaders in France
Sep 19 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its leadership team in France, naming Katell Pouliquen as head of Claims, Louis du Ché as head of Property and Ludovic Ruiller as head of...
Lawsuit Claims Poor Information About Pipeline Led to Fatal Blast in Alabama
Sep 17 2019 // A federal lawsuit accuses a major pipeline company based in Georgia of failing to tell work crews where a major underground pipeline was located before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion in...
