Risk Toolbox Launches Free COI-Related Compliance Resource for the Insurance Industry
Risk Toolbox (Parsippany, N.J.) announced at ACORD 2016 in Boca Raton, Fla., that it has published more than 200 pages of certificate-of-insurance (COI) related information on its website in order to provide a compliance resource for carriers, agents and brokers.
November 15, 2016
Technology
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It’s Not Just Twitter’s Problem: What Insurers Need To Know About DDoS Attacks
The events of Oct. 21, 2016 have sobering implications for the future of insurance IoT, but that shouldn’t dissuade insurers from preparing to exploit the opportunity.
November 15, 2016
Technology
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Judge Awards Chubb $12.3M In Adjuster, Contractor Fraud Case
When fires devastated luxury homes in Fairfield and Westchester counties, a Chubb Corp. insurance adjuster was there to assess damages and start the restoration process. But Chubb did not know that its own adjuster was colluding with a contractor he hired to estimate repair costs.
September 19, 2016
Fraud
Litigation
Connecticut
Driver Plows Through Convenience Storefront After Pedal Mixup
Police in Clinton released startling video of an SUV crashing through the front of a convenience store. They said it happened at the Shell gas station at the intersection of East Main Street and Beach Park Road on Sept. 1.
September 12, 2016
Auto
Liability
Connecticut
Porch Collapse Injures Students Of Trinity College, Connecticut
Twenty-eight Trinity College students were taken to hospitals after the back porches on a college-owned house on Broad Street collapsed, hurling students and porch decks to the ground.
September 12, 2016
Liability
Property
Connecticut
CNA Collected $22K In Fraudulent Comp Benefits
A Waterbury woman was arrested today and charged with illegally collecting $22,000 in Workers’ Compensation benefits.
ROSAURA RODRIGUEZ, age 51, of 161 Prospect Street, Waterbury, was arrested by Inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an arrest warrant charging her with one count of Fraudulent Claim or Receipt of Benefits.
September 7, 2016
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
Connecticut
ROSAURA RODRIGUEZ, age 51, of 161 Prospect Street, Waterbury, was arrested by Inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an arrest warrant charging her with one count of Fraudulent Claim or Receipt of Benefits.
Motorist Backs Into Pump, Igniting Blaze At Citgo Station
Two cars were engulfed in flames and several others were damaged after a 70-year-old motorist crashed into a pump at a Farmington gas station.
August 31, 2016
Auto
Liability
Connecticut
Found On Road Dead? Ford Recalls 88K Cars For Stalling Issue
There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.
August 24, 2016
Excess & Surplus Lines
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Six Children Shocked On Ocean Beach Park Ride
A half dozen kids were shocked by electricity on a Connecticut boardwalk ride Tuesday, police said. The six children were rushed to a local hospital with minor injuries after being shocked on the Scrambler at Ocean Beach Park in New London.
August 17, 2016
Liability
Connecticut
Unhappy Homeowners Pack Crumbling Foundations Meeting
Residents of South Windsor and the surrounding area on Thursday expressed their frustration, desperation, and disappointment that the state cannot force insurance or concrete companies to help them with crumbling foundations.
July 27, 2016
Property
Connecticut
GM Recalling Almost 290K Impalas Over Airbag Issue
Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.
July 22, 2016
Auto
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Dozens Of Wrestlers Sue WWE Over Neurological Injuries
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc (WWE.N) was sued on Monday by Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and dozens of other retired male and female wrestlers seeking to hold it responsible for neurological injuries they claimed to suffer by participating in its bouts.
July 19, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Connecticut
Recall Of P.F. Chang’s Frozen Meals Expanded
After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If you’ve been stocking up on P.F. Chang’s frozen meals, you might want to double-check they aren’t included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.
July 18, 2016
Subrogation
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Massive Frozen Veggie Recall Involves Nation’s Largest Retailers
Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.
June 21, 2016
Subrogation
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Gunmaker To Challenge Sandy Hook Lawsuit
The maker of the gun used in the 2012 massacre of 26 young children and educators at a Connecticut elementary school will ask a judge to toss a lawsuit saying the weapon never should have been sold to a civilian.
June 20, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Connecticut
