Litigation Funders Are Betting on a Rise in UK Class Actions August 9, 2022 Financiers are helping to fuel a rise in US-style class-action lawsuits in the UK courts, lured by the promise of...
US Crop Insurance Payouts Rise Sharply as Climate Change Worsens Droughts, Floods January 27, 2022 By Leah Douglas Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past...
Wisconsin High Court Rejects Bull Attack Compensation Claims May 21, 2021 By Todd Richmond MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who fell into depression and attempted suicide after he was gored by a bull...
Legal Malpractice Claims Frequency Reaches Plateau After Year of Record Payouts May 18, 2021 By Claims Journal staff Legal malpractice claims frequency leveled off in 2020, after two years of record payouts and total costs that approached $1...
PG&E Exits Bankruptcy After Wildfires Pushed It to Brink of Ruin July 2, 2020 By Mark Chediak Nearly a year and a half after collapsing under $30 billion in liabilities from wildfires sparked by its equipment, PG&E...
GOP Lawmakers Look to Limit Car Accident Claims in Louisiana May 14, 2020 By Melinda Deslatte BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Republican lawmakers Tuesday advanced proposals to limit damage claims against businesses in car wreck lawsuits,...
Global Insurance Regulators Say Forced Pandemic Payouts Risk Financial Instability May 7, 2020 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn LONDON — Forcing retroactive payouts to cover business disruption losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic could ultimately put financial stability...
Judge to OK $215M Settlement for USC Gynecologist’s Patients January 9, 2020 LOS ANGELES — A federal judge is likely to approve a $215 million class-action settlement with thousands of former patients...
Surge of New Abuse Claims Threatens Church Like Never Before December 4, 2019 By Bernard Condon and Jim Mustian NEW YORK — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic...
Claims Against Florida Police Total More Than $1M December 29, 2011 Records show that more than a $1 million has been paid out since 2005 in claims against a South Florida...