The co-owner of Jet Chevrolet in Federal Way, Wash., is contacting the insurance company that backed his bet on a Seahawks shutout. The dealership sponsored a raffle with a dozen $35,000 winners if Seattle shut out New York in Sunday’s …
A western Pennsylvania police department’s insurer is paying $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman wrongly charged with making up a claim that she was raped during a 2004 convenience store robbery. Sara Watt sued police in Cranberry, …
A lawsuit over the swimming death of a 16-year-old boy has been dismissed in Chippewa County. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of Justin Buss. He drowned after he and friends were swinging on a rope over Paint Creek …
An insurer is hoping to use an Alabama state law governing deceptive trade practices to stop Google from prominently displaying negative websites about the company. American Income Life Insurance Co. has filed suit in the Jefferson County Alabama Circuit Court …
State lawmakers want to learn more about how the insurance industry responded to the two recent storms to hit Connecticut – the remnants of Hurricane Irene and the October nor’easter. The legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee has scheduled an …
Investigating and defending catastrophic injury claims involves careful navigation of the tripartite relationship that exists among the policyholder, the claimant, and legal counsel hired by the insurer to defend the insured. When evaluating catastrophic injury claims, adjusters need to keep …
Gov. Rick Scott wants the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to recommend ways to shore up the troubled insurer. Scott, who would prefer the insurer be sold to a private company, wants answers from the Citizens’ board by a Cabinet …
The Montana Supreme Court says the family of a man who was dragged by a cement truck isn’t covered under the vehicle’s insurance policy because he did not technically “occupy” it. Terry Richerson’s widow had asked the Supreme Court to …
The insurance company that paid Drake University’s theft claim has filed a lawsuit against the former Drake administrator who stole the money. The Des Moines Register reports that Employers Mutual Casualty Co. filed the lawsuit this week against Robert Harlan. …
Mark Lindquist, whose against-the-odds story of survival and heroism in the Joplin tornado touched people around the world, got some good news Monday: The insurance company that initially denied his medical claim agreed to pay. Lindquist, 51, was hurt while …