Barely noticed outside marijuana industry groups, the Biden Administration has been moving to change the classification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug. That follows a recommendation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Drug Enforcement …
A California appellate court revived two whistleblower lawsuits filed by Allstate against a Los Angeles-area business owner who has no medical license but allegedly operated medical practices that referred auto and workers’ compensation claimants to radiologists in order to send …
The average claim cycle time for auto injury has dropped below pre-pandemic durations after rising rapidly in 2020 and 2021, but medical treatment patterns shifted away from conservative care, according to a new report by CCC Intelligent Solutions. The report …
Insurer State Farm is fighting what it says is a fraudulent medical scheme that has been exploiting New Jersey’s personal injury protection (PIP) benefits law since 2014. The insurer is seeking to recover $2.6 million in what it claims are …
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) shows that claimed economic losses for auto bodily injury liability (BI) insurance claims increased 10 percent annualized from 2012 to 2017, substantially above the medical inflation rate of 3 percent over …
In a recent online poll about experiences with auto injury insurance claims, almost half of respondents with auto injury claims hired attorneys to help settle those claims, according to a survey commissioned by the Insurance Research Council. The most common …
Volkswagen AG failed to report at least one death and three injuries involving its vehicles to a U.S. regulator’s database designed to save lives by spotting possible defects. Lawsuits concerning the accidents, filed over the last eight years, weren’t found …
Claims cost per injured vehicle are still increasing in the United States, even though better vehicle safety has helped reduce claims frequency, the Insurance Research Council found in a new report. The IRC, a division of the American Institute For …
SGI is seeking input over the next several months from the public and stakeholders in a comprehensive review of its auto injury program. “We want to ensure the injury program is still effectively meeting the needs of Saskatchewan residents,” said …
Looking at insurance loss trends can be quite baffling at times. Perhaps no more so than when trying to figure out why bodily injury severities continue to rise despite frequency declining at a time when the safest cars ever produced …