Latest Claims Headlines
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People Moves: Allstate Names Fiato EVP and Chief Claims Officer; TNEDICCA Names Progressive’s Pratt to Board
Jan 12 2024 // Allstate, headquartered in Northbrook, Ill., named Mike Fiato as executive vice president and chief claims officer, effective Jan. 22. Fiato joins Allstate with more than 32 years of industry experience. Most recently, he...
People Moves: AXIS Appoints Tan Head of Wholesale Casualty; Fiato Named Allstate Chief Claims Officer; Schoberth to Lead Canopius US Distribution
Jan 12 2024 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited named Anna Tan as head of wholesale casualty. Tan joins AXIS from Navigators, a brand of The Hartford, where she served for over 12 years, most recently as head of excess casualty. Before...
Rokstone Launches Kentucky-based TPA for U.S. Agricultural Claims
Jan 11 2024 // Rokstone, a specialty insurance and reinsurance managing general agency, has launched a new third-party administrator service based in Kentucky. Part of the Aventum Group, Rokstone said its new Verus TPA will manage...
California Man Gets Prison for False Sex Assault Claims in $100M Suit Against Hollywood Executives
Jan 11 2024 // A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives. Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in...
OpenAI Claims New York Times Isn’t ‘Telling the Full Story’ in Suit
Jan 9 2024 // OpenAI publicly addressed a lawsuit from the New York Times in a strongly worded blog post on Monday, saying the newspaper’s complaint was “not telling the full story” about its use of Times data. The...
McKinsey to Pay $78 Million to Settle Opioid Claims by Insurers
Jan 3 2024 // McKinsey & Co. is poised to pay $78 million to health insurers and company benefit plans, in its latest settlement of lawsuits over its role advising opioid makers in their sales of the painkillers. The proposed...
Ohio Supreme Court Affirms 4-Year Deadline for Med Mal Wrongful Death Claims
Jan 2 2024 // A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday drew a bright line around the state’s statute of repose for medical malpractice claims, ruling in separate cases that an absolute four-year deadline to bring an action applies...
5th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Lawsuit Alleging State Farm Undervalued Total-Loss Claims
Dec 28 2023 // A federal appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to certify a class of plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleged State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. undervalued total-loss claims by Louisiana...
Missouri Urgent Care Chain Settles for $9.1M Over False Claims for COVID-19 Testing
Dec 27 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – One of the largest urgent care chains in Missouri will pay $9.1 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims for medical services, including COVID-19 testing. The U.S. Attorney`s...
Delaware Hospital System to Pay $47 Million to Settle Billing Fraud Claims
Dec 27 2023 // Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower allegations by its former compliance officer that it provided kickbacks to outside doctors in return for patient referrals,...
Citi Suit Raises #MeToo Claims at Wall Street’s Top Levels
Dec 21 2023 // Ardith Lindsey’s lawsuit accusing Citigroup Inc. of tolerating years of sexual harassment and assault against her struck a chord across Wall Street for many reasons, not least of which was her title: managing...
Illinois Appeals Court Rules Exclusion Bars BIPA Claims
Dec 20 2023 // An Illinois appellate court decided Tuesday that a general liability insurance policy sold to a Waukegan packaging company clearly excluded coverage for violations of the state Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying a...
Florida Court Rulings, Legislation Could Impact Insurers’ Claims Practices
Dec 19 2023 // Recent Florida legislation that has limited plaintiffs’ attorney fees and has raised the bar for bringing bad-faith claims against insurers appears to have already had an impact on the level of claims litigation in...
Activision Blizzard to Pay $54M to Settle California Workplace Claims
Dec 18 2023 // Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California’s civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker. The settlement, which is...
Allianz D&O Outlook: ESG Claims ‘Here to Stay’ and AI Rapping at the Door
Dec 14 2023 // While everyone may be talking about potential risks associated with generative artificial intelligence, a new directors & officers report from Allianz highlights a range of current concerns associated with...
Texas Sues VA Claims Insider for Deceptive Trade Practices Targeting Veterans
Dec 13 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued VA Claims Insider, LLC, (VACI) for engaging in deceptive trade practices to defraud veterans seeking disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. VA Claims...
Higher Auto Claims, More Frequent Accidents Continue to Outpace Premium Hikes
Dec 12 2023 // As claim severity rises, US personal auto results are on the decline, according to AM Best’s latest Market Segment Report. The 112.2 net combined ratio in 2022 for personal auto was an almost 11-point deterioration...
UK to Probe Unilever’s Environmental Claims as Part of Greenwashing Crackdown
Dec 12 2023 // Britain’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it would scrutinize environmental claims made by UK consumer goods giant Unilever about certain household essential items, amid a wider crackdown on greenwashing. The...
Boy Scout Abuse Claims Fund Shouldn’t Pay $21M in Lawyers’ Fees, Judge Says
Dec 8 2023 // The judge presiding over the Boys Scouts of America’s bankruptcy has rejected a $21 million fee request from attorneys hired by law firms representing survivors of child sexual abuse. A group of personal injury firms...
Ex-Twitter Exec Claims in Lawsuit He Was Fired for Raising Security Concerns
Dec 7 2023 // A former executive at Twitter Inc, now called X Corp, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired after Elon Musk acquired the company for objecting to budget cuts that would prevent the company from complying with a U.S....
