Articles by Jim Sams

Insurers and service companies won a major victory this week against lawyers who were trying to bind a group of... Read More

Missiles fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip into Israel did not constitute an act of war that triggered an... Read More

For the second time, a federal appellate court reversed a trial judge’s finding that a policy issued by a unit... Read More

What began as an assignment to the research and development team at American Family Insurance Co. now stands alone as... Read More

Sedgwick announced Monday that it has signed an agreement to purchase York Risk Services, continuing a long-term consolidation trend among... Read More

If a drunken motorist collides with another vehicle, can the incident truly be called an accident? A federal judge in... Read More

An insurer’s payment of the appraisal value after disputing a claim does not establish that it was liable, nor does... Read More

The co-pilot never attended flight simulator school, but the chief pilot let him take the wheel anyway. The plane crash-landed... Read More

Baltimore, Maryland retained its title as the most accident-prone metropolitan area in the nation for automobiles, while Brownsville, Texas took... Read More

Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics... Read More