Claims & Reserving
Easing Supply Chains, Other Factors Could Rein in Inflation: Economists
Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets. Consumer prices rose 6.8 percent for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation ...
Phillips Claims FDA’s Ventilator Safety Issues May Be Overestimated
Dutch medical equipment maker Philips on Wednesday said U.S. regulators might have overestimated the number of safety issues raised by customers related to its recall of ventilators in which a ...
The P/C Insurance Market’s Top Market Conduct Issues
The U.S. insurance industry's top compliance shortcomings relate to claims handling noncompliance, including timeliness, required disclosures, payments and grievance and appeal processes—as well as ...
Boy Scouts To Seek Settlements With More Insurers As Claimants Weigh Reorg Plan
More than a year and a half after the Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations, tens of thousands of men who say they were molested as ...
Buckle Up for Interesting Times: Not a ‘Standard’ Hard Market
Interesting. Fluctuating. Moderating. Fun. Those are the words that Patrick M. Gallagher, the chief executive officer of Gallagher Global Brokerage for the Americas, used to respond to a question ...
Meet ‘Spot,’ Farmers’ New Four-Legged Mobile Robot
Farmers Insurance will soon use a digitally controlled, four-legged mobile robot to assist with in-field catastrophe claims handling and non-catastrophe property inspections. Plans call for debuting ...
Are Reserve Releases Ahead? Appellate Ct. Ruling Seen Slowing COVID Suits
A federal appellate court ruling that dismissed a dental practice's COVID-19 business interruption claim might be the beginning of the end for policyholder arguments that income lost because of ...
Scientists Must Update Extreme Weather Climate Models After Missing the Mark
As scientists gather online to finalize a long-awaited update on global climate research, recent extreme weather events across the globe highlight the need for more research on how it will play out, ...