Auto Glass Shops Seek Class Certification Against Geico
VIP Auto Glass Inc. (VIP) and Class members are seeking class certification in a Florida lawsuit against Geico General Insurance Company for allegedly violating the states law by underpaying auto glass shops not affiliated with Safelite Retail facilities or participants in the Safelite Network.
May 24, 2017
Auto
Liability
Litigation
Florida
Driver Killed After Tanker Truck Explodes In Atwater, California
Fire crews are investigating a Tanker explosion in Atwater near Highway 99 that killed one person. About 200 people in the area were evacuated.
May 24, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Workers' Compensation
California
Claims Professionals, Be Mindful Of Your Words
“What are words for when no one listens? ...What little filters through is giving you the wrong impression. Its a sorry state I say to myself.” If you grew up on MTV in the early 1980s like I did, you recognize these lyrics to “Words” by Missing Persons.
May 23, 2017
Auto
Liability
Litigation
Property
Risk Management
Passenger Jet Collides With Truck On LAX Taxiway
An Aeromexico passenger jet collided with a utility truck on a taxiway of Los Angeles International Airport shortly after landing on Saturday, injuring eight employees who were aboard the truck, but no one on the plane was hurt, authorities said.
May 22, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
California
Dust Storm Creates Blackout Conditions On Central Illinois Roadways
A Chatham man was killed, and Illinois State Police shut down eastbound Interstate 72 at the Morgan-Sangamon county line and eastbound Illinois 104 at Auburn Wednesday afternoon following numerous multi-vehicle accidents due to dirt from fields blowing across the roadway.
May 18, 2017
Auto
Liability
Illinois
Hit-And-Run Driver Causes Multiple-Vehicle Crash, School Bus Roll-Over
Police say more than a dozen people were injured after a hit-and-run driver caused a four-vehicle crash involving a Lancaster Mennonite school bus Wednesday morning in East Lampeter Township.
May 18, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania
5 Dead In Chain Reaction Collision Near South Carolina Border
Five people, including two children, were killed and four others were injured in a fiery crash involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 95 Tuesday afternoon. Pictures from Chopper 11 HD showed there were at least 3 tractor-trailer trucks and 3 smaller vehicles involved.
May 17, 2017
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
North Carolina
6 Hospitalized After Boat Wrecks Into Miami Beach Dock
Rescue crews took six people to the hospital after, officials said, a fishing boat crashed into a dock near Normandy Shores, injuring most of the passengers on board, Saturday evening.
May 16, 2017
Liability
Marine
Florida
Learjet Crashes On Approach To New Jersey Airport
A small plane on Monday crashed on approach near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey causing two buildings to catch fire, the Federal Aviation Administration and local police said.
May 16, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New Jersey
Multiple Injuries After School Tour Bus Crashes In Maryland
A bus carrying Philadelphia schoolchildren on an eighth-grade class trip was involved in a serious accident on I-95 in Maryland on Monday.
May 16, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Maryland
Pennsylvania
WannaCry Exposes Glitch In Tech Business Model
A customer skimps on software upgrades; a malicious program storms its computers. As far as the blame game goes, this weekends global malware attack seems straightforward. In reality, things are more complex.
May 15, 2017
Liability
Technology
Nine Out Of 10 Cyber Policies Are In The U.S.
A ransomware worm made its way to more than 200,000 computers in 150,000 countries over the weekend, and while one may dismiss its creators as petty criminalsasking for an average individual ransom cost of $300its economic implications are significant.
May 15, 2017
Liability
Risk Management
Technology
Driver Rams Into 7-Eleven After Pedal Mix-Up
A car smashed into a 7-Eleven in Fairhaven Wednesday morning. Police said an elderly woman mistook the brake pedal for the gas pedal.
May 11, 2017
Auto
Liability
Massachusetts
5 Dead Following Fiery, 2-Vehicle Crash In Michigan
Police say five people are dead in Michigan after a 22-year-old driver blew through a stop sign and smashed into another vehicle. Two people were killed in one car and three in the other.
May 10, 2017
Auto
Liability
Michigan
Insurers File Racketeering Lawsuits To Counter No-Fault Schemes In Michigan
Fed up with no-fault fraud, auto insurance giants Allstate and State Farm have, in recent years, brought racketeering lawsuits against a handful of metro Detroit medical clinics, MRI centers and doctors.
May 9, 2017
Fraud
Liability
Litigation
Michigan



