Latest Claims Headlines
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Two SE Commissioners Warn Insurers About Claims Denials, Policy Cancellations
Feb 5 2026 // Two Southeastern states’ insurance commissioners this week posted sternly worded bulletins, warning property insurers about improper policy cancellations and claims denials. Following severe winter storms that swept...
Meta Faces New Mexico Trial Over Child-Exploitation Claims
Feb 2 2026 // Meta Platforms is set to face trial this week in a lawsuit brought by the state of New Mexico accusing it of exposing children and teens to sexual exploitation on its platforms and profiting from it, the first case of its...
Oregon Disabling Workers’ Comp Claims Fell in 2024
Jan 30 2026 // Oregon recorded fewer accepted disabling workers’ compensation claims in 2024 even as statewide employment continued to rise, new data from the state’s Department of Consumer and Business Services show. The...
LA County Told to Pause $4B in Abuse Payouts as DA Probes Fraud Claims
Jan 30 2026 // Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman asked the county to hold off on making initial payments for a landmark $4 billion sexual abuse settlement while his office conducts a criminal investigation of...
Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy
Jan 26 2026 // An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called “end-to-end”...
Florida Board Drafting Rules That Could Stem Bogus Engineering Reports in Claims
Jan 26 2026 // For the last several years complaints have piled up, contending that some Florida engineers have testified or have submitted reports in insurance claims lawsuits about major property damage that was somehow caused by...
California Bill Would Require Insurer Claims Handling Plans, and Double Penalties
Jan 26 2026 // A bill that promises legislative reform in California to speed up disaster recovery for homeowners and renters through improved insurance coverage and expanded consumer protections was introduced on the anniversary of the...
20,000 AI Users at Travelers Prep for Innovation 2.0; Claims Call Centers Cut
Jan 23 2026 // Days after announcing a deal to equip 10,000 engineers and data scientists at Travelers with AI assistants, the insurance company’s leader detailed “differentiating domain expertise” around data and...
PE Firm TowerBrook Takes Stake in Insurance Claims Company MSA Mizar
Jan 21 2026 // Investment firm TowerBrook is acquiring a majority stake in MSA Mizar, an insurance claims management services provider, marking its first deal in Italy since it opened an office in Milan last year. MSA Mizar’s...
Viewpoint: Inside the Machinery of Medical Abuse in Liability Claims
Jan 21 2026 // Within the realms of general liability (GL) and workers’ compensation (WC) insurance lines, medical abuse is often considered in narrow terms — excessive treatment, unnecessary surgeries, inflated bills. While such...
Kaiser Permanente Affiliates Paying $556M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Jan 21 2026 // An integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, that are affiliates of Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting...
Adjusters Launch ‘CarFax for Insurance Claims’ to Vet Carriers’ Damage Estimates
Jan 14 2026 // Two independent claims adjusters in the Southeast have teamed up to create what they say is a quick, low-cost way for property owners to double-check insurance carriers’ damage estimates on claims. They’re...
Law Firm Faces Sanctions for Failing to Vet Ugandan Claims in $6B 3M Case
Jan 9 2026 // An Alabama law firm will likely have to pay more than $800,000—plus another $100,000 in sanctions—for failing to verify hearing loss in hundreds of Ugandans who claimed part of the massive settlement over faulty 3M...
California Bill Would Require Insurer Claims Handling Plans, and Double Penalties
Jan 7 2026 // A bill that promises legislative reform in California to speed up disaster recovery for homeowners and renters through improved insurance coverage and expanded consumer protections was introduced on the anniversary of the...
Southern California Aerospace Firm to Pay $1.5M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Jan 7 2026 // An aerospace and defense electronics company based in Chatsworth, California, agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by supplying aircraft parts to the military that did not...
German Insurers Report Below-Average Natural Disaster Claims in 2025
Jan 6 2026 // Heavy rain, flooding, storms and hail – also known as severe convective storms (SCS) – brought below-average claims for German insurers in 2025, defying the long-term trend for such perils, given the impact of climate...
Severity Was Up, But Will Falling Claims Volume Impact the Profession?
Dec 31 2025 // The average claim severity during the third quarter 2025 could turn out to be one of the highest quarterly amounts in recent history, however the quarter will produce the lowest claim volume in five years—continuing a...
Former National General Loss Rep and Mom Charged With Fake Claims Scam
Dec 18 2025 // A former loss representative for National General Insurance Co. and his mother allegedly ran a scheme in 2022 that involved false claims, a fake towing company and a $141,000 loss for the insurer. Horace Kelly, 40, and his...
Hacking Group ‘ShinyHunters’ Claims Theft of Data From Users of Pornhub
Dec 17 2025 // The hacking group “ShinyHunters” said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it. Although Reuters could not immediately...
Illinois Company Agrees to Pay $421K to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Violations
Dec 16 2025 // Swiss Automation Inc. has agreed to pay $421,234 to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations relating to its failure to provide adequate cybersecurity for certain drawings of parts that the company machined and supplied...
