June 20, 2024
Claims Journal is launching a new feature in which we solicit questions from our claims and insurance professional readers and then have experts answer them. This is the first article in that series. If you have a question you’d like …
June 14, 2023
HONOLULU (AP) — An environmental group has a $2 million insurance policy on Hawaii’s coral reefs, which is in effect in time for a busier hurricane season that could damage the vital natural resources that are increasingly under threat from …
January 16, 2020
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Negotiations between the Anchorage School District and the federal government over earthquake damage relief could result in the district turning down millions in funds, an official said. The negotiations over money to repair damage caused by the …
April 26, 2019
A federal judge in Pennsylvania decided to skip the jury and ruled based on the facts presented in briefings that GuideOne Insurance acted in bad faith by sitting on a church’s property damage claim for six months. U.S. District Judge …
February 5, 2018
Hartford, Conn., officials say they cannot find a 30-year-old insurance policy that could play a key role in any damages or settlement the city would have to pay in a lawsuit filed by a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for …
December 27, 2017
A public television station has won a court battle over insurance policies that could pay for cleaning up contamination at the site of a shuttered Evansville, Indiana, dry-cleaning business. Judge Richard D’Amour ordered Red Ink Management LLC on Wednesday to …
March 24, 2017
Like many people who make their living selling stuff on Amazon.com Inc., Rob Griffin is terrified of getting kicked off the site. Two years ago the Atlanta resident was suspended for selling a banned health supplement and wound up living …
November 28, 2016
A fire at the gun shop next door never reached Kathy Laurienti’s sausage and specialty food store, but the water and smoke damage was enough to shut her business down. Because Laurienti didn’t have enough insurance, it’s still closed – …
February 3, 2015
Insurance issues have temporarily put the brakes on a new tram system that will shuttle passengers along the Atlantic City Boardwalk. B&B Parking was scheduled to start the service Sunday under the name Boardwalk Transfer. But the company says it …
July 9, 2014
State officials say a fire in a Madison, Wis., government building in May caused about $15 million in damage. The Madison Fire Department initially estimated the damage at $350,000. But the state Department of Administration released a statement Thursday saying …