If insurers want to mitigate risk, rather than risk their time and money with litigation, if they want to guard against fraudulent claims, if they want to protect good doctors against wrongful claims, then they should invest in sound legal counsel.

Amped-up settlements and jury awards are creating upward pressure on the global liability market, while new technology offers an opportunity for insurers to be more proactive.

Poor employment practices at Costco have left the retail giant’s insurer on the hook for an underlying discrimination case.

This July marks the start of a fully reinvented conference that focuses on cyber, management, and professional liability claims issues—something Andrew Fastow, a former Enron executive who served six years in prison after pleading guilty in 2004 to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, knows something about.

U.S. religious centers are buying special insurance to protect them from the financial consequences of an armed intruder opening fire in their buildings.

High winds contributed in part to most catastrophes in Canada over the past few decades, prompting the need for a new national standard on wind resilience, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) said Thursday.

A performance report on the first five years of California’s independent bill review program reveals that claims adjusters’ billing decisions rarely align with how the state workers’ comp system sees things.

Last year, the United States saw above-average activity for hurricanes, floods, wildfires and high winds.

Unlike traditional property coverage, parametric insurance is a type of insurance that does not indemnify the pure loss, but rather issues a set payment upon the occurrence of an objective triggering event, such as an earthquake of a certain magnitude or a hurricane of a specific intensity.

Workplace injuries cost US companies more than $1 billion per week, according to new data from Liberty Mutual.

Record floods that submerged parts of the Midwest as a result of a deadly combination of melting snow and heavy rains have caused $3 billion in damages so far, and more flooding is in the forecast, according to news reports. This recent natural catastrophe is once again sending warning signals about the intensifying weather-related events that are likely to continue impacting the US in the years to come, including regions that typically haven’t seen wild weather in the past.

For years, personal lines has offered digital claims capabilities that have transformed the way consumers interact with insurers — all the while, commercial lines has been left in the dust … or has it?

American Family Insurance has announced a partnership with UK start-up Neos to help US customers proactively protect their homes using smart-home technology. The partnership is the first of its kind for a US insurer, according to American Family.

This article is the second in a series of three articles addressing the potential pitfalls embedded in claims-made coverage triggers. The final article in this series will examine three additional claims-made coverage trigger traps and explain how to avoid them.

When investigating a workers compensation claim, the employer and insurer/servicing agent are given limited time to make a tough decision: accept or deny the claim.