Latest Claims Headlines
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Judge Approves Fix to Stem Race Bias in NFL Concussion Deal
Mar 7 2022 // Black retired football players who were denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate racial bias in the testing and...
Medical Access in California Workers’ Compensation Examined
Mar 7 2022 // A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute study shows injured workers’ overall access to medical care for their initial treatment remained relatively consistent between 2010 and 2020. CWCI used data from...
Social Inflation Increased Commercial Auto Claim Costs by $20B Over 10 Years
Mar 7 2022 // The insurance industry is ringing alarm bells about the cost of social inflation again, this time with the help of an actuarial analysis that concludes the phenomenon added more than $20 billion to the cost of commercial...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Reports 78K COVID-19 Claims
Mar 4 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) reported more than 78,000 COVID claims and 422 fatalities as of Feb. 6, 2022. DWC’s March report, “COVID-19 In The Texas...
Tennessee Insurance Department Uses Mediation to Settle Claims Disputes, Returns $8M
Mar 4 2022 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance returned more than $8 million to policyholders in 2021 through mediation between consumers and insurance companies, the department announced this week. The department...
Property, Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims From Severe Australia Floods at A$900M and Rising
Mar 4 2022 // Property and auto insurers in Australia have received 60,163 claims related to the ongoing disastrous flooding in South-East Queensland and New South Wales. Based on previous flood events, the Insurance Council of...
Customer Satisfaction Scores Drop for Property Claims: J.D. Power
Mar 4 2022 // J.D. Power says frustration with slower claim cycle times and a rough transition to digital channels contributed to the lowest customer satisfaction score for property claims in five years. Overall customer satisfaction...
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Defies Expectations on Employer-Employee Cases
Mar 2 2022 // Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Yet a look back at Jackson’s decisions in cases involving business and...
Kansas Court Rules Insurer had No Duty Pay Policy Limit Before Demand Was Made
Feb 28 2022 // A claims adjuster’s sub-standard investigation of a potential fatal accident claim does not warrant a multi-million award of damages against an insurer that issued a policy with a $25,000 limit, the Kansas Court of...
Actuaries: Social Inflation Increased Commercial Auto Claim Costs by $20B Over 10 Years
Feb 24 2022 // The insurance industry is ringing alarm bells about the cost of social inflation again, this time with the help of an actuarial analysis that concludes the phenomenon added more than $20 billion to the cost of commercial...
Startup MGA Rising Edge Targets Low-Layer D&O Business
Feb 24 2022 // The co-founders of London-based Rising Edge aimed to create something different when they decided to launch a managing general agent in 2021, which focuses solely on directors and officers liability insurance. CEO Philippe...
Construction Defect Insurance Claims
Feb 21 2022 // Construction defect claims and cases are scenarios wherein physical loss or damage is claimed to be related to defective building elements that will require repair or replacement. Typical defect claims and cases will...
Florida Insurance Rescue Bills Move Closer to Becoming Law
Feb 17 2022 // Two bills that many in the insurance industry hope will solve some of Florida’s worsening property insurance problems moved a step closer to becoming law Wednesday when they passed a key Senate subcommittee. The...
After Months of Decline, Florida Claims Litigation Rose Sharply in January
Feb 16 2022 // Just when insurers saw signs that last year’s reform legislation may be having an impact on claims litigation, bad news appeared in the inbox Wednesday. CaseGlide, the maker of litigation management software, which...
Gunmaker Remington to Pay $73M to Settle Liability Claims With Sandy Hook Families
Feb 15 2022 // Remington Arms will pay $73 million to the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the families said on Tuesday, the first time a gunmaker has been held responsible...
Massachusetts Firms at War Over Oprah’s ‘Favorite’ Waffles
Feb 15 2022 // Waltham, Massachusetts-based pretzel maker Eastern Standard Provisions managed to get its pretzels on Oprah Winfrey’s “Oprah’s Favorite Things” list in 2019 and that led to a boom in business. Last...
Bus Firm Reaches $20M False Claims Act Settlement With New Jersey Transit
Feb 14 2022 // A bus company accused of overcharging New Jersey Transit for missed trips and over-billing for hours and miles driven will pay more than $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the state, the attorney general’s...
Florida OIR to Hold Workshop on Claims Litigation Data Call
Feb 14 2022 // Florida insurance carriers will be able to find out what claims litigation data they should be collecting and how it should be reported, thanks to a Feb. 24 workshop held by the state Office of Insurance Regulation. Senate...
People Moves: Fairfax Financial Promotes Clarke to President; AXA XL Names Lee as Head of Claims, Canada; Zurich’s Price Joins SiriusPoint as Head of Travel A&H
Feb 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Fairfax Financial Holdings, AXA XL and SiriusPoint Ltd. A summary of these new hires follows here. Fairfax Financial Holdings Promotes Clarke to...
Hertz Customers Who Claim They Were Falsely Arrested Score Win in Court
Feb 14 2022 // Hertz Corp., battling hundreds of customers who say they were falsely arrested for auto theft after renting cars, was ordered by a federal judge to disclose how many renters it accuses every year. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge...
