That Panera Cream Cheese In Your Fridge Was Just Recalled Over Listeria Fears
Panera Bread is recalling cream cheese products from its bakery-cafes across the U.S. over fears of listeria contamination.
January 29, 2018
Fraud
Life & Health
Baby Formula Recalled Worldwide After Fears Of Salmonella Contamination
"Nearly 7,000 tons" of baby milk formula made by the French company Lactalis has been recalled over fear of salmonella contamination.
December 12, 2017
Liability
Life & Health
Colorado Division Of Insurance Recovered $8.5M For Consumers In 12 Months
Consumers pocketed $8.5 million rightfully owed them by their insurance companies between July 2016 and June of this year thanks to investigations performed by the Colorado Division of Insurances consumer services team. The division, which regulates the insurance industry in the state, has released its "Annual Report on Complaints Against Insurers."
December 5, 2017
Auto
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Colorado
The Impact Of Exponential Technology Disruption On Insurance
We live in a time of rapid technological change, and industries of all kinds are being disrupted across the globe. The exponential growth of new technologies has enormous potential to transform the way we do business and its having a major impact on the insurance industry.
November 30, 2017
Auto
Life & Health
Property
Risk Management
Technology
Insurers Battle Against Companies Born Digital
Chat windows, faster policy statements, intuitive agent portals and robotic technologies are among the new generation of weapons insurers intend to use to compete with "born-digital" companies.
November 29, 2017
Life & Health
Risk Management
Technology
County Lawsuit Would Target Opioid Makers To Recover Social Costs
DULUTH A northeastern Minnesota county commission on Tuesday, Nov. 14, is expected to approve a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that make synthetic opioids in an effort to recover some of the social and public costs from the drug addiction crisis that is rocking the nation.
November 14, 2017
Life & Health
Minnesota
State Insurance Regulators Start Approving Rate Hikes To Cover Trumps Slashed Subsidies
Insurance regulators in many states are starting to look into last minute health plan rate increases to compensate for the elimination of Affordable Care Act subsidies.
November 2, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
What Nerve: Auto Scams Flourish In Muscle, Nerve Testing
A pronounced fraud and abuse trend in recent years involves fabricated and often useless tests to diagnose the health of muscles and nerve cells that control them.
October 25, 2017
Fraud
Liability
Life & Health
Workers' Compensation
Senators Propose Bipartisan Compromise To Restore Insurance Subsidies
President Trump recently announced that he was pulling the plug on $7 billion a year in federal cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies selling individual policies to lower-income Americans, but today a pair of influential senators announced a bipartisan compromise that, if approved, would restore those payments for two years, while also giving states more flexibility with rules under the current law.
October 18, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Trump Will End Health Care Cost-Sharing Subsidies
President Donald Trump plans to end a key set of Obamacare subsidies that helped lower-income enrollees pay for health care, the White House said Thursday, a dramatic move that raises questions about the laws future.
October 13, 2017
Legislation & Regulation
Life & Health
Insurance Industry Employment Trends
The U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just published data as of August 2017 on detailed insurance industry employment, and the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) website contains updated multi-decade trend data in chart form.
October 9, 2017
Auto
Liability
Life & Health
Property
Metal shavings Put 38,475 Pounds Of Ground Turkey On The Recall List
At not-food-in-food recall on Monday night covers 38,475 pounds of ground turkey, including the Publix store brand, that might have metal shavings from the processing equipment. In addition to Publix ground turkey and ground turkey breast in 1.3-pound styrofoam trays, 1.2-pound trays of Fit & Active Fresh Ground Turkey and 1-pound trays of Weis Markets Fresh Ground Turkey Breast are covered in the recall. All have ink jet printing on the side of the trays with the numbers 7268 and 7269.
October 3, 2017
Liability
Life & Health
Alabama
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
New York
Death Wish Coffee Recalls Cold Brew Cans Due To Potentially Deadly Toxin Concerns
Upstate New York-based coffee brand Death Wish Coffee has recalled all of its Nitro Cold Brew canned coffees due to a slight risk of the toxin that can cause botulism.
September 21, 2017
Liability
Life & Health
Target Sold Dressers That Tipped Onto Preschoolers. 178,000 Are Now Recalled
Reports of dressers tipping over, including one falling on two 3-year-olds, has prompted Target to recall about 178,000 Room Essentials four-drawer dressers.
Five dressers or chest of drawers sold by Target have been recalled in 2017 as tip-over hazards.
September 19, 2017
Fraud
Liability
Life & Health
Five dressers or chest of drawers sold by Target have been recalled in 2017 as tip-over hazards.
Drug Maker Accused Of Misleading Insurance Companies To Sell Expensive Opioid
When Insys Therapeutics got approval to sell an ultra-powerful opioid for cancer patients with acute pain in 2012, it soon discovered a problem: finding enough cancer patients to use the drug.
September 13, 2017
Fraud
Life & Health



