Conning’s 2012 liability trends study, “Liability and Tort Trends: Trouble Around the Corner?” found that many insurers with the poorest liability results tended to be those that were the most widely diversified. Excess and surplus (E&S) insurers were the best …
Claims Journal magazine is pleased to announce the following members of its newly established editorial board: Steven Plitt, Ken Levine, Renee Callantine, Gary Hinson, Kenneth Tolson and Melissa E. Raymer. Phoenix-based attorney Steve Plitt is a nationally recognized expert in …
All plumbers worth their salt have heard that paste flux, used in soldering, causes pinhole leaks in copper pipe. While plumbers may have heard this, not all believe it is a major issue. As a result, the care associated with …
The previous year saw a number of important cases interpreting and developing the application of the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine in the context of insurance claims. Insurers and insureds consistently assert and challenge these protections in coverage disputes, …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, on Friday, February 15, a meteor exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk (population: 1 million) in Russia’s central Ural Mountains, injuring hundreds and causing damage to buildings in six cities. According to the …
A woman had to be rescued from an underground sanitary sewer vault in northern Illinois after falling about 8 feet through an unsecured lid in the pavement. The woman was not hurt. Lt. Andy Wienckowski of the fire department in …
Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry says that a magnitude 6.7 earthquake has hit a sparsely populated area in Eastern Siberia. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The ministry said in a statement that the epicenter of Thursday’s quake …
More than 60 civil lawsuits have been filed against an Oklahoma pipeline company over damages from a summer wildfire at Glencoe. The latest to join the court action over the Aug. 4 blaze is Hesser Holdings LLC, which says in …
Officials are pushing a safety campaign in western North Dakota’s oil patch, where 12 people died in oil and gas operations last year. The Bismarck Tribune reports it is a joint project of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration …
A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing five people, officials said. The small, Soviet-designed AN-24 plane was carrying 44 passengers …