Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Hampshire Hospital to Pay $3.8 Million to Resolve Kickback Claims
Feb 14 2022 // New Hampshire’s Catholic Medical Center has agreed to pay $3.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law against kickbacks. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, the Manchester hospital...
Senate Joins House in Passing Ban on Forced Arbitration of Worker Sexual Abuse Claims
Feb 11 2022 // The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban companies from forcing employees who allege sexual assault or harassment to settle their claims with an arbiter without the option of filing a lawsuit. The bill,...
House Passes Ban on Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims
Feb 10 2022 // The U.S. House has passed legislation barring contracts that force people to settle sexual assault or harassment cases through arbitration rather than in court, a process that often benefits employers and keeps misconduct...
Tokio Marine Invests in Satellite Imaging Specialist ICEYE, Enters NatCat Collaboration
Feb 9 2022 // ICEYE, the Helsinki-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data provider and specialist in natural catastrophe solutions, announced that Tokio Marine Holdings has made a strategic investment in the company as it looks to...
Reuters Special Report: J&J’s Secret Plan to Limit Payouts to Cancer Claimants
Feb 7 2022 // Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly...
Louisiana Court Disbars Attorney Who Allegedly Mishandled Claims Case
Feb 7 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has disbarred a Lafayette attorney accused of failing to properly handle a client’s case, then lying to investigators about it. Brad Thomas Andrus was formally disbarred, ordered to pay...
Illinois Supreme Court: Privacy Claims Not Barred by Workers’ Comp Act
Feb 4 2022 // The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (IWCA) does not bar claims for statutory damages under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a Feb. 3...
NASA: Earth’s Temperature in 2021 Was 1.5 Degrees F Above Baseline
Feb 3 2022 // Earth’s global average surface temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period, a new report shows. The average tied with 2018 as the sixth...
Q4 Net Income Drops 50% for Allstate on Higher Auto Claims
Feb 3 2022 // Allstate Corp. said fourth quarter 2021 net income plummeted 50% compared to results of the prior year quarter as auto claim frequency and severity increased. Adjusted net income for Q4 was $796 million compared to about...
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty in Arson, Insurance Fraud Scheme
Feb 2 2022 // A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to an arson and insurance fraud scheme that allegedly destroyed three houses from 2013 to 2019. Wandale J. Fulton, 40, was accused of conspiring with six others to buy houses,...
UK Banks Face Surge in Equal Pay Claims After Landmark Ruling Against BNP Paribas
Feb 2 2022 // Stacey Macken fought more than eight years for equal pay. Her victory over BNP Paribas SA this week at a London court may encourage a wave of other women to come forward. In an unprecedented order for a UK investment bank,...
Louisiana Commissioner: Insurers Have Paid or Reserved $10.5 Billion in Ida Claims
Feb 1 2022 // Insurers have paid or reserved $10.5 billion on all types of Hurricane Ida-related claims in Louisiana through the end of 2021, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said in a release Jan. 31. The Louisiana Department of...
Florida Senate Approves Bill That Would Limit Claims Histories to Three Years
Feb 1 2022 // Florida property/casualty insurers would have to produce claims histories that go back only three years instead of five when requested by policyholders, under a bill passed last week by the state Senate. Senate Bill 156,...
People’s Trust Must Hand Over Underwriting Manuals in Claims Litigation, Court Says
Jan 27 2022 // A property insurer must give up its underwriting manuals in a claims dispute, a Florida appeals court said Wednesday. In People’s Trust Insurance Co. vs. Theodore Foster, the 1st District Court of Appeals in...
Owners of High-End London Restaurants Sue AXA Over Failure to Pay COVID Claims
Jan 26 2022 // The owners of high-end London restaurants The Wolseley and The Delaunay sued AXA Insurance UK Plc for as much as 4 million pounds ($5.4 million) over its failure to pay out on claims linked to the coronavirus...
Insurtechs – Three Considerations When Implementing Self-Service Claims
Jan 26 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Over the past year, online client demand has maintained a steep upward climb. Due to the pandemic, cloud and integrated technology capabilities have been expanded to...
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas Among States With Highest Frozen Pipe Claims
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas. The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
Judge Dismisses Claims Against Ocean City for Beach Umbrella Injury
Jan 24 2022 // A judge has dismissed Ocean City from a federal lawsuit over a beach umbrella getting caught in the wind and impaling a woman. The lawsuit filed in June 2021 claimed that negligence on the part of the town and the rental...
VW Pays $3.5M to Settle Diesel Emissions Claims with Ohio
Jan 24 2022 // Volkswagen AG agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with Ohio over claims the German automaker violated state laws by manipulating vehicle computer software in its vehicles to mask carbon dioxide emissions, the state...
Florida Lawsuit Charges United P&C With RICO Violations in Widespread Claims Denials
Jan 24 2022 // In the war between restoration companies and insurers in Florida, contractors suing carriers in assignment-of-benefits claims is nothing new. And insurers have long argued that some construction firms are colluding with...
