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Cigna Faces Class-action Over Coverage Denials by AI Claims System

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

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

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?

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

Let’s Dust Off That Mundane Wellness Program

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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
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