Latest Claims Headlines
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Increase in Homeowners Claims Spurs Higher Insurance Prices in Missouri
Jun 15 2021 // Severe weather trends and an increase in claims are impacting the price of homeowners insurance in Missouri, regulators say. A recent report issued by the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance shows that homeowners...
Texas Healthcare Providers to Pay More than $1M in False Claims Case
Jun 11 2021 // Three separate Texas healthcare providers will pay a collective $1,056,340.50 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing of electro-acupuncture devices, the U.S. Attorney’s...
N.Y. Bill Aims to Give Policyholders Private Right of Action in Unfair Claims Disputes
Jun 10 2021 // A proposed bill in New York relating to unfair claims settlement practices would provide policyholders with a private right of action against insurers who refuse or delay payment of a claim. The bill comes as many...
AXA Offers €300M to Settle COVID-19-Related BI Claims for French Restaurant Owners
Jun 10 2021 // AXA has offered a settlement to 15,000 French restaurant owners that purchased non-damage business interruption insurance after previously denying coverage during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. AXA estimates the cost of...
Uptick in Texas Workers’ Comp Claims Ends 20-Year Downward Trend
Jun 9 2021 // Despite the economic slowdown resulting from the COVID-19 business closures, the total number of workers’ compensation claims reported to the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation rose in 2020 by 34% compared...
Diocese of Buffalo Suspends Three Priests Amid Sex Abuse Claims
Jun 8 2021 // Three priests have been placed on leave in response to claims in a lawsuit filed last month that they sexually abused a boy in the 1990s, the Diocese of Buffalo announced Saturday. Bishop Michael Fisher said the priests...
Plaintiffs Seek ISO Files on Virus Exclusion to Back Business Interruption Claims
Jun 7 2021 // Plaintiffs attorneys are looking deep into the weeds for evidence to support claims for business income lost because of COVID-19 public safety orders. Lawyers for footwear wholesaler Marc Fisher LLC and its affiliates are...
VW Nears Claims Settlement with Former CEO over Dieselgate Scandal
Jun 7 2021 // BERLIN – Volkswagen on Sunday said it had reached the broad outlines of a settlement with former boss Martin Winterkorn over his role in the dieselgate scandal, with the final details to be thrashed out over coming...
Alabama Beverage Firm Pays $800K to Settle Racial Discrimination Claims
Jun 7 2021 // A beverage distributor that operates across Alabama and played a role in the state’s craft beer craze agreed to pay more than $800,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against Black employees for years by...
Law Firms and Their Insurers Feel the Pain of Bigger Malpractice Claims
Jun 7 2021 // Even as law firms made adjustments to sustain their operations through the COVID-19 pandemic, they were unable to avoid the rising costs of malpractice claims. Indeed, the time period beginning in 2019 through mid-2020...
$6.4 Billion Suit Claims Bristol-Myers Delayed Cancer Drug to Avoid Shareholder Payment
Jun 4 2021 // Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued for $6.4 billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid payments to shareholders of the former Celgene Corp., which the drugmaker bought in 2019. According to...
Alabama Supreme Court Tosses County Claims Against Abbott Over Opioid Crisis
Jun 2 2021 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court sided with Abbott Laboratories on Friday and threw out a lawsuit filed by Mobile County against the company over the opioid epidemic. In an 8-0 opinion in which one...
New Hampshire Sex Abuse Class-Action Suit Tossed, Individual Claims Stand
May 28 2021 // A judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit involving 300 people who allege decades of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, but he left the door open for individual claims against the state. The...
Internet Groups’ Lawsuit Claims Florida Social Media Law Is Unconstitutional
May 28 2021 // Two tech trade groups filed a lawsuit against Florida on Thursday over a new law that would fine social media companies that ban political candidates, which they said violated free speech rights. The lawsuit, which said...
How 3D Technology is Deepening Claims Efficiency in Insurance
May 26 2021 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The use of 3D technology has been a topic of discussion in insurance for years, but for an industry that is historically slow to adopt technological change, its impact has not yet been as...
$41M Recovered for Louisiana Consumers After Hurricane Claims Complaints
May 24 2021 // Complaints over insurance claims arising out of the three hurricanes that struck Louisiana last year have resulted in a recovery of $41 million for consumers as of the end of April, Louisiana insurance regulators say. The...
Pennsylvania Woman Sentenced to Jail for Filing False Auto Insurance Claims
May 24 2021 // A Morrisville, Pennsylvania, woman was sentenced to four to 23 months in county jail for submitting a series of false auto insurance claims over the past few years that defrauded two auto insurance companies of almost...
Suit Claims Owners Drove Brooks Brothers to Bankruptcy to Avoid Paying Investor
May 20 2021 // The billionaire Italian family that until recently owned Brooks Brothers has been accused in a lawsuit of driving the iconic apparel retailer into bankruptcy instead of selling it, to avoid paying millions of dollars to an...
California Regulator Reviewing Tesla’s Self-Driving Claims
May 18 2021 // A California regulator said on Monday it is reviewing whether Tesla Inc. violated regulations by falsely promoting its advanced driver-assistance systems as being “full self-driving.” Tesla’s driver...
Louisiana ‘Justice Lab’ Aims to Expose, Litigate Claims of Police Bias
May 17 2021 // A woman forced to the ground by two sheriff’s deputies in an arrest recorded by her son. Demonstrators tear-gassed and hit by rubber projectiles while protesting the death of George Floyd. A man stunned with a Taser...
