October 29, 2024
An analysis of the claims paid out after the Gray and Oregon Road fires in Washington last year found that most of the homes destroyed were under-insured. The fires destroyed 366 homes, burning more than 20,000 acres outside of Spokane …
October 29, 2024
Burns & Wilcox named Tom Carvalho as the new managing director of the company’s San Francisco, Seattle and Portland offices. Carvalho, who is based in San Francisco, joined Burns & Wilcox in 2011 as an associate underwriter, establishing expertise within …
October 28, 2024
New vehicle registrations in California seem to be leveling off, while consumer tastes for Telsas cooled slightly. California’s new light vehicle registrations fell by 1.7% from a year earlier, totaling 1,320,708 units, an outlook covering the first three quarters of …
October 28, 2024
A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in customers before it was recalled from store shelves …
October 28, 2024
A mobile phlebotomy lab and its owners have agreed to pay at least $135,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they submitted false claims for services and associated travel mileage and paid kickbacks to a third-party marketer of the …
October 25, 2024
The owner of a Fresno, California-based for-profit vocational school was charged with engaging in fraudulent billing practices related to workers’ compensation. Paul Steve Ramirez, 59, was charged with 11 felony counts, including insurance fraud. The fraudulent insurance claims could reach …
October 25, 2024
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines totaling $302,500 against insurance companies, agents, brokers and unlicensed entities in July, August and September for violations of state insurance laws and regulations. Among those actions was a $40,000 fine issued to Allstate …
October 24, 2024
A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others. The lawsuit, filed in Circuit Court …
October 24, 2024
A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis opioid prescription data between 2017 and 2023 from the California Department of Justice’s Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System builds on prior CWCI studies by tracking multiple opioid utilization metrics. The study examines …
October 24, 2024
Lahilahi Heen has lived for decades in a three-bedroom house surrounded by a carefully groomed garden in the lush Hawaiian Shores subdivision in Lower Puna. It’s also downslope from Hawaii’s most active volcano. Her house sits outside Pahoa Village in …