With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown orders, Zoom quickly became the platform du jour for mediations – allowing people to participate ‘live’ from across state lines, borders, and continents. Against that backdrop, questions about which jurisdiction’s confidentiality laws would apply to any given mediation were called into question.
Numerous class action suits have been filed against auto insurers regarding the valuation of vehicles that are total losses. These cases typically allege that insurers are undervaluing vehicles in some common way or in violation of a state regulation.
Most of the time when we mention the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in our articles, it’s because of a new recall the organization is issuing. However, the NHTSA has other even more important activities, including monitoring traffic deaths in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a final rule today allowing automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights on new vehicles.
The families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the maker of the AR-15-style weapon used in the attack.
The immediate aftermath of a vehicular crash is difficult for all parties involved. The drivers have to process the trauma, address injuries with medical attention, exchange information, and figure out how to get their damaged cars repaired or replaced.
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing Elon Musk’s company Tesla over racism and harassment toward Black employees at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a lawsuit filed by the state this week. The company has called the lawsuit "unfair."
A pair of unusual winter wildfires in Southern California on Thursday burned several homes, spurred evacuations and closed a portion of the iconic Pacific Coast Highway. The two fires, one near Los Angeles and the other farther south near Laguna Beach, spread amid fierce winds, along with a continued drought and weather conditions that felt more like summer than winter, furthering fears that fire has become a year-round threat in the state.
Great opportunities often arise in times of great change, and that is certainly the case for the auto insurance market. Used cars are suddenly worth more instead of less - an inversion of the normal depreciation curve is imploding claim reserves at both primary carriers and reinsurers.
A Tesla Model 3 crash that killed a woman was allegedly caused by failures of the Autopilot system to prevent the Model 3 from slamming into the rear of a firetruck.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently confirmed that liability insurers have a duty to defend their insureds in construction defect cases when the underlying complaint alleges damage to property beyond the product and work of the insured, even if the complaint merely implies that the insured seeks such damage, without explicitly alleging so.
Progressive Insurance has announced that it is dropping some 56,000 homeowners’ insurance policies in Florida, in response to the surge in litigated claims and costs in the state. Specifically, the insurer is not renewing coverage for homes with roofs older than 15 years.
Global professional services firm Genpact has entered a strategic partnership with Claim Genius, a full-service, AI-based claims solution provider for auto insurance, to improve P&C insurers’ claims management.
Underwriting, claims, and the criminal justice system: What do these three environments have in common? The answer is noise. If you work in underwriting or claims management, you may want to read ‘Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment’ by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein.
Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 485,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outdoors because they can catch fire even if the engines have been turned off.<br />The recalls from the two Korean automakers are another in a long string of fire and engine failure problems that have dogged the companies for the past six years.
