Latest Claims Headlines
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Court Rules Airport Screeners Shielded From Passenger Abuse Claims
Jul 12 2018 // Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at U.S. airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing...
Lawsuit Claims Virginia Cruise Ship’s No-Slip Floor Caused Cornhole Injury
Jul 12 2018 // The owners of a popular dinner cruise ship in Virginia are being sued by a customer who says the ship’s no-skid flooring worked too well. The lawsuit in federal court accuses the Spirit of Norfolk cruise ship of...
Congress Let NFIP Off Hook for $16B Debt, Despite Less Than $10B in Claims
Jul 9 2018 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid about $8.6 billion in claims from Hurricane Harvey and projects all claims from the three 2017 hurricanes to total about $9.7 billion, according to a new report compiled by the...
Google Claims Google Documents Safe Despite Russian Search Engine’s Warning
Jul 9 2018 // Google said Thursday that its document writing tool Google Documents was secure even as Russian internet users discovered scores of files that appeared to be intended for private use. The Russian internet company Yandex...
Blue Bell Creameries’ Directors to Face Investor Claims Over Listeria Outbreak
Jul 9 2018 // Blue Bell Creameries’ directors must face claims that their mismanagement led to a 2015 listeria outbreak that forced the ice-cream maker to recall all its products and lose millions of dollars in sales. Investors...
Maryland Appeals Court Says Insurer Has Duty To Defend in Hidden Camera Case
Jul 6 2018 // The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has concluded that Harleysville Preferred Insurance Company has a duty to defend the limited liability company that owns and operates Rams Head Tavern in underlying litigation...
Lawsuit Claims Guggenheim Defrauded Insurance Buyers to Buy Baseball Team
Jul 6 2018 // Guggenheim Partners, overseen by billionaire Mark Walter, is facing a lawsuit claiming it defrauded annuity investors by saddling an insurance affiliate with risky assets, and siphoning cash for purposes including...
Burand’s State of P/C Insurance Industry: How P/C Insurance is Becoming Less Valuable
Jul 4 2018 // Value is a relative term often specific to a given asset. For example, if the price of gold declines from $1,800 an ounce to $1,250 an ounce, as it has, then gold is less valuable. The price of property/casualty insurance...
Former Iowa Insurance Claims Rep Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charge
Jul 2 2018 // A former claims representative in West Des Moines, Iowa, has pleaded guilty to defrauding an insurance company, the Iowa Insurance Division reported. Cora Harrington entered a guilty plea on June 25, 2018 to Fraudulent...
Michigan’s Amerisure Appoints Kenyon VP of Field Claims
Jul 2 2018 // Amerisure Insurance, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has named Becky Kenyon as vice president of field claims. In this position, Kenyon will serve as a liaison between Amerisure and its internal...
Texas DWC: 40% of Workers’ Comp Claimants Have Previous Injuries
Jul 2 2018 // There are about 200,000 new claims each year in the Texas workers’ compensation system, representing about 2 percent of covered Texas employees. About 40 percent of those new claims involve claimants who have had at...
The Perfect Storm: As CAT Season Heats Up, Are You Prepared?
Jul 2 2018 // Anyone involved with disaster response knows to expect the unexpected, and that mantra has only intensified as 2018’s catastrophe (CAT) season heats up. Unexpected seems to be the theme. Oklahoma — which...
Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claims Rose Only Slightly Last Year
Jul 2 2018 // California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent compared to the corresponding data from the prior year despite a 2.9 percent increase in covered...
Top Practice Areas for Lawyers’ Malpractice Claims
Jun 28 2018 // New malpractice claims against lawyers are being driven by inadequate safeguards against conflicts of interest, along with participation in certain expanding and complex practice areas, according to a new study by...
Texas Attorney Sentenced for Insurance Fraud Involving Hail Claims
Jun 26 2018 // A former Texas attorney is headed to prison on charges of insurance fraud and barratry for a scheme involving fraudulent lawsuits filed after hail storms, the state insurance department announced. A Tarrant County judge...
States’ Adjuster Licensing Requirements Come Under Scrutiny
Jun 25 2018 // It’s time for reciprocity across states in insurance adjuster licensing, according to a new report. The study by the Pacific Research Institute into state licensing requirements,“Breaking Down Barriers,”...
AXA Belgium Partners with Online Car Repair Platform Fixico
Jun 25 2018 // AXA, the Paris based insurance & asset management firm, and Fixico, a platform for cosmetic car repairs, after several months of joint testing, have just started to provide AXA’s customers in Belgium with an...
Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claims Rose Only Slightly Last Year
Jun 21 2018 // California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent compared to the corresponding data from the prior year despite a 2.9 percent Increase in covered...
Chubb Insists No Insurance for Weinstein, Who Wants Jury to Settle Coverage Issues
Jun 19 2018 // Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking that a jury decide whether his insurer must defend him against 14 lawsuits accusing him of sexually harassing and assaulting women over several decades. Weinstein contends...
Groundskeeper’s Cancer Trial Could Signal Fate of Other Monsanto Roundup Claims
Jun 19 2018 // Lee Johnson’s doctors didn’t think he’d live long enough to testify in court that exposure to Monsanto Co.’s Roundup weed killer caused his deadly cancer. But the 46-year-old is now first in line to...
