Millions of Americans live near Superfund sites, areas the federal government considers contaminated as a result of hazardous waste that was dumped, mismanaged or otherwise left out in the open.
Nearly two-and-a-half years after recreational marijuana was legalized in Canada, the country’s P&C insurance industry is starting to get a sense of the type of claims arising from the October 2018 legalization.
Coverage litigation arising from Winter Storm Uri’s impact on Texas is likely to be significant, due to the vast number of businesses hit both within the state and beyond, legal experts say.
Women are much more likely than men to suffer a serious injury when they are involved in a crash, but much of the heightened risk is related to the types of vehicles women drive and the circumstances of their crashes, rather than physical differences, new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows.
It seems that, as a society, there is always something to worry about. Even when good news breaks through the din of negativity we still seem to find elements of concern to worry about.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) requires retained expert witnesses to provide an expert report which gives ‘a complete statement of all opinions the witness will express and the basis and reasons for them.’
Online cannabis advertising platform Weedmaps and a Southern California vape shop have been targeted with a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court by a mother who claims both are to blame in the shooting death of her son.
A recent study by the Geneva Association on the topic of ‘social inflation’ addresses the challenges of defining and quantifying the phenomenon. More important, it takes on the question of what insurers and reinsurers can actually do about it.
More than 30 people who lived near Bethlehem Park are suing Great Lakes Industrial Development for damages related to the massive 2016 fire at the former Bethlehem Steel site that roared for four days.
There’s an old saying that ‘#$%^ runs downhill.’ So, if you want to find the source of the #$%^ , you go to the top of the hill. A similar saying, more to the point, is ‘Garbage in, garbage out’ (GIGO). We hear and use that phrase an awful lot in claims, far too often…
The past year has been unprecedented—and unpredictable—but through all of the uncertainty, a few patterns have emerged in the auto casualty insurance industry.
Claims and lawsuits involving slip and falls on snow and ice are big business, especially in heavily populated cities in the northeast like New York; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore. Significant resources are spent investigating, defending, and resolving these claims.
