Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia’s Latest Effort on Plaintiff Demands Aims to Deter Bad-Faith Claims
Apr 3 2024 // Georgia lawmakers have approved two bills that could have a significant impact on windstorm and bad-faith claim losses for property insurers. First, the bad-faith reform legislation. Auto insurers have for years fought for...
People Moves: BHSI Appoints 3 for Transactional Liability, Claims and Customer & Broker Engagement Teams
Apr 2 2024 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) named a new head of Transaction Liability in Canada and has also promoted two executives in Europe within the claims and customer & broker engagement teams. Chres Lee has...
Private Space-Station Maker Sued Over Claims Radio Bands Misused
Mar 28 2024 // Vast Space LLC, founded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, is being sued by a former engineer who claimed he was fired for refusing to use improper radio frequencies in designs for a commercial space station the...
UnitedHealth Unit Will Start Processing $14B Medical Claims Backlog After Hack
Mar 25 2024 // UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month. The company...
SpaceX Forced Workers to Sign Illegal Severance Agreements, Claims NLRB
Mar 22 2024 // Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been accused by a U.S. labor agency of requiring employees who were laid off or fired from the rocket and satellite maker to sign unlawful agreements barring them from disparaging the company...
UK Insurer Direct Line Posts Operating Loss as it Grapples With Auto Claims Inflation
Mar 21 2024 // Direct Line posted a 2023 operating loss as it grapples high motor claims inflation, but reinstated its dividend as the British home and motor insurer tries to fend off takeover offers from Belgian rival Ageas. The 189.6...
People Moves: Aspire General Insurance Names DelCorso Claims Vice President
Mar 21 2024 // Aspire General Insurance named Tom DelCorso vice president of claims. DelCorso has more than 20 years of claims leadership experience, joining Aspire from Allstate Canada, where he was vice president of claims. Prior to...
Report Looks at Cumulative Trauma and Litigated Claims in California Workers’ Comp
Mar 18 2024 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows nearly half of all litigated claims in the Los Angeles Basin are cumulative trauma claims that involve physical or mental injuries from repetitive stress,...
NFIP Pays $364M on Idalia Claims. Florida Bill Requires Flood Disclosure to Buyers
Mar 14 2024 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out $364 million on flood claims from Hurricane Idalia, the storm that swamped part of Florida in August. That’s a fraction of the $3.2 billion NFIP paid after Hurricane...
Eggland’s Best Is Sued Over Saturated Fat Claims for Its Eggs
Mar 14 2024 // Eggland’s Best, one of the largest U.S. egg producers, has been sued for falsely claiming that its eggs contain less saturated fat than other eggs. The proposed class action filed on Tuesday in federal court in...
Washington Commissioner Wants Insurers to Modify Claims Process for Wildfire Victims
Mar 6 2024 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Wednesday sent a letter to insurers urging them to consider loosening personal property claim filing requirements for victims of last summer’s Spokane County...
Miami Trial of J&J Talc Powder Cancer Claims Ends in Hung Jury
Mar 6 2024 // The latest trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson’s talc products cause cancer ended in a mistrial on Tuesday, as a Florida state court jury said it could not agree on a verdict. The lawsuit was brought by Bob...
Lawsuit Claims Isolation and Abuse at Wyoming Boys School
Mar 5 2024 // Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while...
US Judge Says Google Must Face Some Advertisers’ Antitrust Claims, Dismisses Others
Mar 4 2024 // Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. But U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed some...
Report Looks at Cumulative Trauma and Litigated Claims in California Workers’ Comp
Mar 4 2024 // A California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows nearly half of all litigated claims in the Los Angeles Basin are cumulative trauma claims that involve physical or mental injuries from repetitive stress,...
Xcel Energy Utility Equipment Started Texas Wildfire, Homeowner Claims in Lawsuit
Mar 4 2024 // March 1 (Reuters) – A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy XEL.O on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the...
Southern California Tops List of Wheel and Tire Claims for Second Straight Quarter
Mar 4 2024 // Los Angeles and Orange County are number one of the top 20 list for a second consecutive quarter for 2023 and stay at the top in theft claims handled by population. Wheelnet, a provider for wheel and tire replacement for...
Tesla Must Face Class Action Claims by 6,000 Workers in Race Bias Case
Feb 29 2024 // A California state judge has tentatively ruled that nearly 6,000 Black factory workers can sue Tesla as a group for the electric vehicle maker’s alleged failure to address rampant race discrimination and harassment...
Insurance Journal’s Jergler Named Editor of Claims Journal
Feb 29 2024 // Claims Journal, a Wells Media Company, has named Don Jergler as editor. He succeeds Jim Sams who retired in January. Jergler has covered the insurance industry for over 20 years and holds multiple nominations and an AZBEE...
False Claims Act Cases Resulted in $2.7B in Fiscal Year 2023: DOJ
Feb 28 2024 // The U.S. Department of Justice said a record 543 settlements and judgements under the False Claims Act resulted in about $2.7 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2023. The amount of settlements and judgements was a...
