Litigation

To combat workers' comp fraud, why not make it standard operating procedure to send claimants an Explanation of Benefits, as health insurers routinely do now, wonders NU Editor Sam Friedman on his blog.

Former American International Group Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and the company's former chief financial officer will get $60 million from AIG's insurers as part of a proposed settlement to resolve shareholder derivative claims.

A Republican runoff in Oklahoma set the stage for a colorful race for state insurance commissioner between the state's first woman commissioner and a Republican who is challenging the constitutionality of the health care law.

Kathleen Sebelius says Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli got the list of defendants wrong when he sued to block Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health coverage ownership requirements.

For eight years United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company (USF&G), now part of Travelers Cos., had been looking to recoup from reinsurers about half of a $987 settlement with an asbestos policyholder.

The WTC Captive Insurance Company announced it would extend the Sept. 8, deadline to opt in to its settlement for two months, until Nov. 8, to give plaintiffs more time to consider whether to accept.

A U.S. Appeals Court vacated a $34.4 million judgment against American International Group filed by AXA, citing the French company's failure to file the suit in time under the statute of limitations.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty would like to begin surveying the state's insurance companies to get a grasp of one of the largest non-catastrophe cost drivers in Florida: sinkhole claims.