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New Jersey Woman Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud

Jul 1 2019 // A Bergen County, N.J., woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for filing phony insurance claims for losses she purportedly sustained during Superstorm Sandy and for filing a false bankruptcy application to shed...

30% of Disaster Claims Settled After Desk Audit Using Munich Re Remote Tool, Images

Jul 1 2019 // Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics tool that can quickly assess property damage after natural catastrophes and speed up claims...

Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’

Jul 1 2019 // Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and wants a judge to block the chemical maker’s requests for...

AXA XL Enhances Environmental Insurance Coverage

Jul 1 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability policy. The policy is designed to provide protection to owners, operators and...

Preparing for the Unpredictable Talent Considerations for CAT Season

Jul 1 2019 // The combined global losses from natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 were the highest ever for a two-year period. While no single major catastrophe caused massive destruction in 2018, nearly 400 smaller natural disasters...

New Federal Study Contradicts Owner’s Claims About Years-Long Gulf Oil Spill

Jun 26 2019 // A new federally led study of oil seeping from a platform toppled off Louisiana’s coast 141/2 years ago found releases lower than other recent estimates, but contradicts the well owner’s assertions about the...

Topa in California Names Yates Assistant Vice President of Claims

Jun 25 2019 // Topa Insurance Co. has named Kelly Yates assistant vice president of claims. Yates will be located in Topa’s Calabasas, Calif. office. Yates has oversight of Topa’s property and commercial auto business and its...

JetBlue Lawsuit Claims Walmart Violates Its Trademark with Jetblack Service

Jun 25 2019 // JetBlue Airways Corp. has sued Walmart Inc. for trademark infringement, in an effort to stop the world’s largest retailer from using the name Jetblack for its text-based personal shopping service. In a complaint...

AXA XL Enhances Environmental Insurance Coverage

Jun 24 2019 // AXA XL’s Environmental business in North America has added supplemental coverage to its Pollution and Remediation Legal Liability (PARLL) policy which provides protection to owners, operators and developers of fixed...

PG&E Settles for $1B with Local Governments for California Fire Claims

Jun 19 2019 // PG&E Corp. will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the governments said on...

Sen. Rubio Bill Would Block Patent Damage Claims by Foreign Firms on Watch List

Jun 18 2019 // U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would prevent Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts, after the Chinese firm demanded that Verizon Communications Inc. pay $1...

Chicago to Partner with Gallagher in Overhaul of City’s Workers’ Comp Program

Jun 18 2019 // Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot said the city will partner with Gallagher Bassett, an international public sector claims administrator, as well as Gallagher Global Brokerage Risk Program Administrators, to overhaul and...

A Place for Technology at Every Point in the Claims Process

Jun 17 2019 // The digital transformation of the insurance industry isn’t just for insurtech startups any more. At Allstate, 60 percent of claims are now filed with a cell phone application that allows policyholders to take photos...

Early Cannabis Insurance Claims Experience Differs from Expectations

Jun 17 2019 // It’s still early, but claims experience thus far in the cannabis insurance market is encouraging, according to one leading writer. “So far, we’re optimistic that we’re going to see that our...

Flooded Farmers Filing Insurance Claims Might Also Get U.S. Trade Aid

Jun 17 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue...

Al Specialists omni:us and FRISS Partner to Offer Claims, Fraud Detection Services

Jun 12 2019 // Two artificial intelligence providers — omni:us and FRISS — are teaming up to “supercharge” insurance claims management and fraud detection. omni:us is a provider of AI-based cognitive claims...

Thousands of Wind-Related Claims Filed in Texas After Weekend Storms

Jun 11 2019 // Following an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and damaging winds on June 9, thousands of wind-related claims have been filed in areas extending from Dallas through south central Texas, the Insurance Council of Texas...

How Insurers Are Digitizing Claims with Apps, Photos, Videos, E-Payments and More

Jun 11 2019 // The digital transformation of the insurance industry isn’t just for insurtech startups any more. At Allstate, 60 percent of claims are now filed with a cell phone application that allows policyholders to take photos...

U.S. May Allow Flooded Farmers Filing Insurance Claims to Also Get Trade Aid

Jun 11 2019 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into ways to allow farmers who have been unable to plant crops due to rains and waterlogged fields to qualify for farm aid payments, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on...

Some Claims of Medical Cannabis Lack Scientific Evidence

Jun 11 2019 // Marijuana has been shown to help ease pain and a few other health problems, yet two-thirds of U.S. states have decided pot should be legal to treat many other conditions with little scientific backing. At least 1.4 million...