Law Firm: Workplace Class Action Settlement Costs Reached Record $3.6B in 2021 January 12, 2022 By Jim Sams The cost of settling workplace class-action lawsuits reached a record high in 2021, defying expectations that the COVID-19 pandemic would...
EvolutionIQ Expands Leadership Team with Insurance Industry Veteran January 12, 2022 The leader in Claims Guidance appoints Alex Young as its Executive Vice President of Sales New York, January 12, 2021...
California Court Rejects Motiva Insurance Claim Stemming From 2017 Refinery Fire January 11, 2022 A California state appeals court on Monday denied Motiva Enterprises’ request for insurance coverage for a settlement with workers injured...
Families of Crew From Sunken Fishing Vessel Get Nearly $1M January 11, 2022 PORTLAND, Maine (AP)–A judge has awarded nearly $1 million in damages to the families of four fishermen who died when...
Hurricane Ida, Europe Floods Made 2021 Costly For Disasters January 11, 2022 By Frank Jordans BERLIN (AP)–Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last...
UK Developers Told They Must Foot Bill For Unsafe Cladding January 11, 2022 By Jill Lawless LONDON (AP)–The British government on Monday told property developers they must bear the cost of removing dangerous cladding that has...
Judge to Consider Lowering $7M Bond For Alex Murdaugh January 11, 2022 By Michelle Liu COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)–Prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was scheduled for a virtual hearing Monday as a judge could consider...
Several With Grave Injuries After NYC Fire That Killed 19 January 11, 2022 By David Porter, Bobby Caina Calvan and Michelle L. Price NEW YORK (AP) –Doctors worked Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured when smoke from a fire...
Broker, Pastor to Spend 15 Weekends in Jail For Insurance Fraud January 11, 2022 By Claims Journal staff A Nebraska insurance agent and church pastor will spend 15 weekends in jail and pay $63,443.77 in restitution for filing...
Insurers Win 1 Bad Faith Case, Lose Another Before Fla. Appellate Courts January 11, 2022 By William Rabb Remember George Costanza’s trick in “Seinfeld,” the 1990s TV sitcom? When he couldn’t (or didn’t want to) pay his rent...