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Insuring Cyber Podcast Episode 3: Underneath ‘the Tip of the A.I. Iceberg’ in Insurance
Dec 2 2020 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Nearly 75% of respondents in a recent survey from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and Shift Technology said they believe that among relevant technology, artificial intelligence (A.I.)...
Montana Nursing Home Lawsuit Adding More Claims
Nov 30 2020 // A lawsuit against a long-term care facility in Whitefish, Mont., has been amended to add claims that it was part of a multi-state network of facilities that enriched corporate owners while residents received negligent...
Home Depot to Pay $17.5 Million to Settle With States Over 2014 Data Breach Claims
Nov 25 2020 // Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home improvement retailer, on Tuesday reached a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a multistate probe into a 2014 data breach where hackers accessed payment card data belonging to 40...
Colorado Outfitter Sues Former Guide, Claims ‘Trade Secrets’
Nov 24 2020 // Stephen Bass approached Andy Sovick last year with a plan for writing a guide to snowmobile-access skiing around one of the most popular backcountry destinations in Colorado: Buffalo Pass near Steamboat Springs. Bass, a...
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Promotes Rootenberg, Scully to Claims Leadership
Nov 19 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced a pair of promotions in its Executive & Professional Lines Claims group, naming Shelby Rootenberg as senior vice president, head of U.S. Commercial Lines (Public)...
HSB Canada Launches ‘Sensor Systems by HSB’ to Help Cut Commercial Water Claims
Nov 19 2020 // HSB Canada, part of Munich Re, has introduced “Sensor Systems by HSB,” a turnkey solution to help insureds reduce common property claims. The program monitors, predicts and alerts customers to risk events...
U.S. Administrator Claims of Tennessee Adds Goff, Whalen as Managers
Nov 19 2020 // U.S. Administrator Claims has promoted Michael Goff to senior director to lead all claim operations. In addition to this promotion, the company has also hired Greg Whalen to be director of General Liability and Property...
Washington Man Faces Theft, Fraud Charges After Filing $65K in Claims
Nov 18 2020 // Jaskaran Singh Gill, of Tukwila, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court in Washington with two counts of first-degree theft, one count of second-degree theft and four counts of filing a false insurance claim...
South African Insurer Santam Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Test Case
Nov 18 2020 // A Cape Town court ordered Santam Ltd. to pay out business-interruption claims to two South African hospitality companies, potentially opening up the industry to cover losses suffered because of the coronavirus...
HSCM Bermuda Takes Majority Stake in Florida Insurer Southern Fidelity After Merger
Nov 18 2020 // After a tumultuous year that included double-digit rate increases, an intervention by the state regulator and a merger, Florida-based insurer Southern Fidelity Insurance Co. (SFIC) and its affiliated entities have ceded a...
Nearly 90,000 Sexual Abuse Claims Filed Against Boy Scouts in Bankruptcy
Nov 18 2020 // Close to 90,000 sexual abuse claims have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America as the Monday deadline arrived for submitting claims in the organization’s bankruptcy case. The number far exceeds the initial...
Federal Reserve Raises Questions Over Life Insurers’ Risk of Coronavirus Claims
Nov 17 2020 // U.S. life insurers face questions about their ability to cover a sudden rush of claims after the Federal Reserve highlighted liquidity and leverage risks in a report this week. Issues the Fed focused on are not new: Life...
Labor, Civil Rights Groups’ Lawsuit Claims Iowa Failed to Protect Workers
Nov 16 2020 // Eight Iowa labor and civil rights groups have filed a federal complaint alleging the state has failed to protect workers in meatpacking, dairy, construction, transportation, health care facilities, nursing homes and other...
COVID-19 and Workers’ Comp a Moving Target, But Some Certainties Exist for Employers
Nov 16 2020 // This year could be the most controversial rate recommendation in the 107-year history of the California workers’ compensation system. Why? Because we are dealing with a virus we’ve never experienced before. The...
Zeta’s Total Onshore U.S. Insured Losses Could Rise to $5B: RMS
Nov 16 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has estimated that insured losses from Hurricane Zeta could rise to as high as $5 billion in the U.S. That figure is slightly higher than estimates announced earlier by catastrophe modelers AIR...
25K Virus-Linked Claims Filed with Texas Workers’ Comp Carriers Through June 30
Nov 13 2020 // As of Sept. 27, workers’ compensation insurance carriers in Texas had reported more than 25,000 COVID-19 claims and 103 fatalities to the state’s regulators. The numbers cover virus-related claims reported to...
Apartment Builders Settle Claims of Illegal Asbestos Work in Massachusetts
Nov 13 2020 // The builders of an apartment complex have agreed to pay $335,000 to settle allegations that workers improperly handled asbestos-containing material during the redevelopment of a former manufacturing site in Lawrence,...
GRS Appoints Keenan to Head Learning, Marketing Operations
Nov 13 2020 // Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a provider of claims adjusting and environmental risk management services based in Miami, has added Colm Keenan as executive vice president and chief of Learning & Marketing. Keenan will be...
Zurich Insurance Reports Sales Growth, Higher Rates, Modest COVID-19 Claims
Nov 12 2020 // Zurich Insurance Group saw increased commercial lines insurance sales and a modest impact from COVID-19 related claims for the first nine months of the year, according to its third quarter report. Growth was supported by...
CWCI: California Workers’ Comp Virus Claim Count Tops 50,000
Nov 10 2020 // There have been 50,592 COVID-19 claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) so far this year – including 282 death claims, according to latest tally by the California Workers’...
