Reuters Finds Disparity in How Judges Apply Qualified Immunity August 25, 2020 By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jackie Botts and Jaimi Dowdell The May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a Minneapolis cop has prompted calls for an end...
Experts Puzzled by Decline in Insurance Fraud Tips via Technology August 25, 2020 By Jim Sams Even though insurers have invested heavily in fraud-fighting technology, the percentage of referrals from automated systems accepted by special investigation...
Alphabet’s Verily to Launch Insurer Focused on Employer Medical Stop Loss Market August 25, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson San Francisco-based Verily, an Alphabet company, is creating a subsidiary, Coefficient Insurance Co., to compete in the medical stop loss...
Lloyd’s Appoints Canal’s Bond as U.S. Head of Claims August 25, 2020 Lloyd’s of London has named Carey Bond as U.S. head of Claims, a newly created role that stems from the...
Judge Dismisses Shareholder Lawsuit Against Danske Bank and Officers August 25, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Denmark’s Danske Bank A/S and four former top executives of defrauding...
Anbang, Andy Bang, $1 Trillion in Claims. Ritz-Carlton Mystery Gets Its Day in Court. August 24, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Mark Chediak When a 26-year-old Uber driver walked into a California deeds office two years ago, it was the real-estate equivalent of...
Lawyers Urge Use of ‘Vaccine Court’ Over U.S. Injury Compensation Fund for Coronavirus August 24, 2020 By Tom Hals A U.S. government program that compensates people who say they have been harmed by an emergency vaccine has paid out...
It’s Clear Insurance Agency Data Is Valuable. Who Owns It May Not Be So Clear. August 24, 2020 By Andrea Wells Independent agencies, like every other business, are living in a data-driven world. The value of data — including how and...
How the Coronavirus Spread So Quickly Across U.S. August 24, 2020 As the United States exceeds 5 million reported coronavirus cases — the world’s first country to do so — epidemiologists...
Hedge Fund Collects $3 Billion in Bet on Wildfire Insurance Claims August 24, 2020 By Michael McDonald and Mark Chediak Baupost Group, the hedge fund run by Seth Klarman, received more than $3 billion in July from its bet on...