Claims News Recap
July 9th - 13th
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Friday, July 13th, 2018
An Odessa man hit record as his girlfriend’s Samsung Galaxy S9 started smoking. Just 24 hours before the phone burst into fire, Dave Warden III and his girlfriend were on a flight. Warden’s smoking phone incident could be the first publicly reported case since the Note 7s notorious exploding problems back in 2016...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Hundreds of lawsuits alleging Roundup weed killer causes cancer cleared a big hurdle this week when a federal judge ruled that cancer victims and their families could present expert testimony linking the herbicide to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said evidence that the active ingredient in Roundup — glyphosate — can cause the disease seemed rather weak...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
The call that came into a GEICO auto insurance claims department seemed routine: A Lexus GS350 was involved in a fender bender with a Chrysler 320 in North Miami-Dade. Within days, adjusters from a team that covers the area reported inspecting the Lexus and authorizing a series of payments totaling over $16,000. But the accident never actually happened...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
The best plotlines in fiction are often based on reality, giving them a scary edge and chilling ring of truth. One such plotline was the subject of Showtime’s “Homeland” series: the fictional Vice President of the United States dies of a heart attack triggered by cyberattackers who hacked into his pacemaker...
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Monday, July 9th, 2018
The Institutes’ RiskBlock Alliance, an insurance-focused blockchain consortium, has made two key technology-partnership selections that will help its carrier and broker members leverage the emerging technology. Corda technology from R3 will provide the distributed-ledger technology, while Accenture has joined with the companies to create integration and control layers...
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