Claims & Reserving
Toyota Settles Acceleration Case After $3M Verdict
Toyota Motor Corp. reached a deal last Friday to resolve a lawsuit in the United States over unintended acceleration issues, one day after a jury found the Japanese carmaker liable and ordered it to ...
Delaware Business Court’s Private Arbitration Ruled Unconstitutional by U.S. Court
Delaware's legal industry suffered a blow when a federal court found on Wednesday the state violated the U.S. Constitution with its novel system of allowing judges to arbitrate private business ...
P/C Insurance CFOs Cite Interest Rates As Top Concern
Chief financial officers with leading North American property/casualty insurers rank interest rates as their top concern, above catastrophes and pricing. Eighty-one percent list interest rates as ...
TVA Insurers Have Paid $92 Million of Ash Spill Cleanup Thus Far
About $42 million has been recovered in the last week by the Tennessee Valley Authority to help pay for more than $1 billion in expenses stemming from the cleanup at the 2008 ash spill at the ...
Top 10 Market Conduct Complaints Against P/C Insurers
Failure to handle claims within specified time frames and using unapproved forms and rates are the top two criticisms of property/casualty insurers by market conduct regulators, according to a new ...BP, U.S. Government Spar Over Size of Gulf Oil Spill
Lawyers for BP Plc and the federal government sparred on Monday over the methods competing teams of scientists used to estimate the size of the company's 2010 oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. ...
Stanford Case Triggers Supreme Court Clash Over Securities Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court debated the reach of the federal securities laws, questioning whether investors can sue law firms and outside companies for their alleged roles in R. Allen Stanford's $7 ...
Tower Reserve Charge Prompts Fitch Downgrade, Carrier Review of Options
Tower Group International, Ltd. announced reserve and goodwill charges representing over 60 percent of year-end 2012 shareholder's equity Monday, prompting Fitch Ratings to cut the financial strength ...