February 17, 2021
Florida property insurers are jacking up rates by double-digit percentages, blaming the hikes on lingering damage from past hurricanes, a wave of litigation, and a law that encourages lawyers to sue by allowing courts to award them big fees. The …
March 18, 2014
A resident of New Orleans, La., is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to multiple arson-for-insurance fraud schemes. Anthony R. Thomas had been charged with multiple criminal counts for his involvement in a 2007 scheme to burn his rental property for …
March 17, 2014
Over the past ten years, emails have taken over. Particularly in claims litigation, emails are generated by attorneys and claims professionals faster than an assembly line at a factory. What was once thought to be a technological innovation has now …
December 11, 2013
The question of why people continually sue property insurance companies is a perplexing one. The simple answer to this question which keeps claims and litigation managers at property insurance companies awake at night staring at the ceiling is that it’s …
October 28, 2013
Enservio, Inc., a software and services provider to property insurers, announced QuickStart, a new capability of Enservio’s ReStore Payments solution that significantly reduces the time required to deploy a payments system, making it easier for carriers and adjusters to get …
March 15, 2013
A Florida court has upheld a decision by state insurance regulators that property insurers must offer sinkhole loss coverage in an amount equal to the dwelling coverage limit. Farm Bureau asked the Office of Insurance Regulation to approve an amendment …
March 12, 2013
Enservio, a national provider of software and services to property insurers, announced the launch of ContentsExpress, a secure online contents valuation tool for insurance carriers and adjusters used to accelerate the contents claims process for property insurance claims. “Using ContentsExpress …
December 4, 2012
Enservio, a software and services provider to property insurers, announced the addition of two new members to the Enservio executive team to bolster the company’s marketing and sales efforts. Christine Washburn joins Enservio from SolidWorks and will lead Enservio’s marketing …
August 26, 2011
Hurricane Irene is likely to cause more insured losses in the Bahamas than 1999’s devastating Hurricane Floyd, catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide said Thursday, even as the storm increasingly tracks toward a weekend landfall in the greater New York City area. …