Latest Claims Headlines
All the headlines from our Claims Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Cybercrime ‘A Thriving Business’ as US Claims Frequency Rises
Apr 26 2024 // Cyber claims frequency in the U.S. rose 13% last year, a new report shows. According to Coalition’s 2024 Cyber Claims Report, released this week, cybercrime is “a thriving business that adversely impacts”...
Jury Rejects Sex Abuse Claims Against Virginia School System by Former Student
Apr 26 2024 // A jury on Wednesday rejected a woman’s lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars from Virginia’s largest school system over allegations that she was raped multiple times as a middle schooler. The woman, who...
4,800 Claims Handled by Unlicensed Adjusters in Florida After Irma, Lawsuit Says
Apr 25 2024 // Two south Florida lawsuits against property insurers argue that two major carriers employed a business strategy of hiring inexperienced or even unlicensed claims adjusters after storms, practices that have led to...
Chubb Wins Latest Battle With New York Diocese in Bid to Avoid Sex Abuse Claims
Apr 24 2024 // A New York state appeals court has reinstated Chubb insurance companies’ bid for judgments declaring that they are not obligated to cover thousands of sex abuse lawsuits brought against the Archdiocese of New York...
UK Firms Told to ‘Urgently Review’ Green Claims Amid Crackdown
Apr 24 2024 // Firms operating in the UK are being advised to go through any products and services around which some sort of sustainability claim has been made, to ensure they’re not in the crosshairs of a regulatory crackdown...
Auto Insurer’s $10M Fraud Claims Against Doctors Are Subject to Arbitration, Court Rules
Apr 19 2024 // A federal appeals court has sided with three chiropractors in ruling that claims under New Jersey’s personal injury protection statute concerning insurance fraud are subject to arbitration. GEICO has lost its bid to...
Global Insured Natural Disaster Claims Again Dominated by Severe US Storms: Gallagher
Apr 18 2024 // Global insured losses from natural catastrophes in the first quarter were estimated at $20 billion, with US claims accounting for more than $15 billion, or 75%, of the Q1 total, according to a Gallagher Re in a...
Supplemental Claims Don’t Need to Include Damage Estimates, Fed Appeals Court Says
Apr 16 2024 // A federal appeals court has, at least for now, put an end to lingering questions about some property insurance claims litigation: The insured does not need to submit a competing damage estimate when filing a supplemental...
Baltimore Hires Law Firms to Pursue Claims Against ‘All Entities’ in Key Bridge Tragedy
Apr 15 2024 // Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced that the city is taking legal steps to address the impact the Key Bridge collapse has had on the city of Baltimore and its residents, including the families of the victims,...
Detroit Landlord to Pay $190K to Settle Claims of Sexual Harassment
Apr 10 2024 // DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit landlord has agreed to pay $190,000 to settle allegations of sexual harassment against women who lived in his buildings or were prospective tenants, the federal...
Employers Can’t Use Vicarious Liability to Block Negligence Claims, TN High Court Says
Apr 10 2024 // The Tennessee Supreme Court this week dealt a blow to businesses and insurance companies, finding that employers can no longer argue that direct negligence claims are barred when the business admits vicarious liability for...
US Dog-Related Injury Claims Hit $1.12 Billion in 2023: Triple-I, State Farm Report
Apr 9 2024 // US insurers paid out $1.12 billion in dog-related injury claims in 2023 according to the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and State Farm. The number of dog bite and related injury claims was 19,062 in 2023, an...
Florida OIR Says Enhanced Data Reporting on Hurricane Ian Claims is Due April 17
Apr 5 2024 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is reminding carriers that additional data is due April 17 on Hurricane Ian claims. All property insurers are required by law to submit the enhanced catastrophe reports, including...
Report: Four-in-10 California Workers’ Comp Claims from Workers with Less Than a Year of Tenure
Apr 4 2024 // Roughly four-in-10 workers’ compensation claims come from workers with less than one year of tenure, a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows. The report shows 40%...
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...
