Five Best Practices To Ensure The Injured Worker Comes First
Putting the injured worker first is key to the “advocacy-based claims model,” which puts the worker at the center of all activity. “It focuses on improving the injured worker’s experience. Until now, most employers have focused on corporate outcomes.
February 1, 2017
Workers' Compensation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Property/Casualty Insurer Profitability Slides
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry in 2016 will likely post an underwriting loss for the first time in four years due to higher catastrophe losses, competitive market conditions and auto liability challenges, A.M. Best Co. Inc. said Monday.
January 31, 2017
Property
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Storm Damage Along California’s Central Coast Keeps Adjusters Busy
The series of storms that recently slammed the Central Coast have passed, but the work isn’t over for local insurance agencies that are seeing a lot of claims.
January 30, 2017
Property
California
Two Issues Prompt Recalls Of Nearly 600K Volkswagen Vehicles
German carmaker Volkswagen will recall nearly 600,000 vehicles in the United States, most of them its premium Audi brand, over defects that could lead to fires or airbag malfunctions.
January 30, 2017
Auto
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Ford Recalls F-150 For Instrument Cluster, Focus For Chassis Integrity Issues
Ford just issued two new recalls, covering two wildly different vehicle segments. In fact, these two recalls exist on opposite ends of a number of spectrums.
January 27, 2017
Auto
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Marijuana Insurance Industry Is Taking Off Like Wildfire
This emerging market is rapidly growing strength throughout the United States with legalized cannabis. The marijuana insurance industry has exploded since certain forms and uses of medicinal cannabis received approval.
January 26, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Alabama
Alaska
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Arkansas
California
California Insurance Commissioner Wins Big For Consumer Protection
In a sweeping victory for consumers, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced the California Supreme Court, in a 7-0 decision, affirmed his authority against a major insurance industry legal challenge.
January 24, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Litigation
Property
California
Fear Of Flash Flooding, Mudslides Has California Residents Evacuating
Southern California residents have evacuated neighborhoods below hillsides scarred by wildfires as the third — and largest — in the latest series of storms brings powerful rain and warnings about flash flooding and possible mudslides.
January 23, 2017
Property
California
Two Fallen Trees, Two Smashed Cars, Same Guy
The most recent storm to hammer the Sacramento region seemed to have it out for one person in particular -- Gerogiy Karpekin. "You know, life’s full of peaks and valleys, man," Karpekin told FOX40.
January 23, 2017
Auto
California
Medical Marijuana Company Accuses Insurance Agent of Embezzling $50K Intended for Comp Policy
A Humboldt County medical marijuana company has sued a local insurance agent for fraud and embezzlement, alleging that it gave the agent $50,000 to buy a workers’ compensation policy that was never delivered.
January 19, 2017
Litigation
Workers' Compensation
California
When Cars Fight Back Against Thieves
Every 45 seconds, a car is stolen in the U.S., for a total value of $4.9 billion in stolen vehicles during 2015. And as vehicles have become more sophisticated, they’ve often inadvertently been left exposed to car theft in new ways.
January 18, 2017
Alabama
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California
U.S. Roads Keep Getting More Dangerous
New government estimates project that for the second straight year, the United States will see the largest leap in motor vehicle fatalities in 50 years. In the first nine months of 2016, the Department of Transportation estimates that 27,875 people died in motor vehicle crashes.
January 18, 2017
Auto
Liability
Alabama
Alaska
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California
NICB Warns Against Warming Up Unoccupied, Unlocked Vehicles
As frigid temperatures and wintry blasts have hit a large section of the nation, drivers are increasingly “puffing”—warming up their parked vehicles before heading out on the road. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) warns that leaving an unlocked car running with the keys or fob inside can lead to two unwanted scenarios.
January 17, 2017
Auto
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Court Case Over Construction Coverage A Cautionary Tale For Insurers
When Moorefield Construction built a Best Buy, it knew there was more moisture vapor emitting through the structure’s concrete than there should have been.
January 17, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Litigation
California
Woman Escapes Submerged Vehicle, Uses Yoga To Survive Freezing Night
A 19-year-old Alameda woman died Wednesday after her car hydroplaned off a Mendocino County highway and into a fast-moving creek, where her best friend clung to a tree for 12 hours of a winter storm before swimming to shore for help at daybreak.
January 17, 2017
Auto
Liability
California
