
Cigna Faces Class-action Over Coverage Denials by AI Claims System
Cigna is facing a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company of employing an algorithm to review and reject hundreds of thousands of patient health insurance claims, with minimal individual doctor oversight.
July 26, 2023
Life & Health
Litigation
Technology
California

Opinion: Denials of Health Insurance Claims are Rising -- and Getting Weirder
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied
June 8, 2023
Life & Health

1 Dead, 10 Injured In NYC House Fire Sparked By Lithium-Ion Battery
A man is dead after a late-night house fire was sparked by a lithium-ion battery in New York City, according to officials.
January 23, 2023
Life & Health
Property
New York

Did They ‘Quietly Quit’ or Are They Saving Their Sanity?
By now, most of us have heard the term quiet quitting. Is it a negative or positive thing?
There’s confusion over what it is or what it means. Some think it means the period of disengagement an employee may experience leading up to actually quitting. Is it really though?
November 15, 2022
Life & Health
Workers' Compensation
There’s confusion over what it is or what it means. Some think it means the period of disengagement an employee may experience leading up to actually quitting. Is it really though?

Let’s Dust Off That Mundane Wellness Program
Are you tired of the same ol’ mundane wellness programs? Weight loss, stress reduction, vaccine clinics, and corporate step challenges, all sounding familiar to you?
November 3, 2022
Insurance Industry
Life & Health

Breakdown of America’s Largest P/C Carriers
Property and casualty insurance providers across the country wrote more than $797 billion in premiums in 2021, generating about $767 billion in earned premiums, the latest industry report from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) has revealed.
October 10, 2022
Auto
Insurance Industry
Liability
Life & Health
Marine

Colorado Insurance Recoveries Up 93% Due to Wildfire Claims
The state helped Coloradans recover nearly $20 million in additional insurance payments last year, mostly from catastrophic wildfire claims.
October 5, 2022
Auto
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Property
Colorado

Turned Away from Urgent Care, the Reason? Their Car Insurance.
Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes. She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Ga. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow down but lost control of her car on a big curve.
October 3, 2022
Auto
Life & Health

The Doctor Is In Your Device
Star Trek was ahead of its time in many ways, and not just because the sci-fi franchise portrayed a future several centuries after the series first aired in the 1960s. The cult classic TV show/films imagined what life might be like in the 23rd century, when humankind could be hurtling on spaceships through unknown universes. Much of the show was fantasy, of course, but the series has been heralded for foreshadowing the future.
September 27, 2022
Life & Health
Technology

Claims Data Indicates Youth Mental Health Issues Have Increased
Mental health in children and teenagers has suffered during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory at the end of 2021 warning about a mental health crisis in youth, and a 2020 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that mental health related emergency department visits in children started increasing in April of that year and stayed high through October.
September 12, 2022
Life & Health

The Soaring Cost of Insurance Fraud
While we all know that insurance fraud is a massive problem, we now know just how massive: more than $300 billion-a-year massive, just in the U.S. That figure comes from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, whose estimate would mean that fraud costs each person in the U.S. some $930 a year and the average family some $3,750.
August 30, 2022
Auto
Fraud
Life & Health
Property
Technology

Georgia Tornado Was An EF-4, The Strongest This Year In U.S.
The National Weather Service estimates that a tornado that hit Bryan County, Georgia had winds of 185 mph (300 kph), making it the strongest twister in the United States so far this year.
April 19, 2022
Life & Health
Property
Georgia

23 Injured When Massive Hailstones, Tornado Hit Central Texas
Large swaths of the central U.S. were bracing for severe weather Wednesday after at least 23 people were injured Tuesday evening when a tornado hit central Texas.
April 13, 2022
Life & Health
Property
Texas

Anthem Fined $5M Over Consumer Violations
Georgia’s state insurance regulator has fined Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield a hefty $5 million after an official investigation found that the insurer violated multiple consumer laws.
March 30, 2022
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Georgia

Charitable Giving Throughout The Insurance Industry Is On The Rise
Every individual has a unique drive or inspiration behind why they give their time, talents and funds to an organization or cause. A member of the millennial generation recently told me, ‘If you ask me to volunteer, I’ll do it tomorrow. If you ask me to donate, it may be in an amount as small as a cup of coffee, but I’ll do it right away.’
February 8, 2022
Life & Health



