The Massachusetts Division of Insurance says insurers have paidabout $1.18 million in losses related to the Boston Marathonbombings in April.
|According to data collected thus far from DOI, a total of 207insurance claims have been filed and 84 have been closed withpayment. Nearly as many, 76, were closed without payment.Forty-seven remain open.
|Claims filed as of July 26 include those in Boston as well assurrounding communities such as of Watertown and Cambridge, DOIexplains. The state's 25 top insurers and its last-resort insurerare included in this preliminary report. A final report is due nextyear.
|Insurers have paid $753,950 on business interruption claims—thetype of claim most filed. Fifty of the 132 totalbusiness-interruption claims have been closed with payment. Another60 are closed without payment.
|Continuing to dissect the claims thus far, 35 residential and 27commercial property claims have been filed. Just five of thecommercial property claims were closed with payment. A total of$253,934 has been paid by insurers on commercial property claims.About $86,800 has been paid on the 20 closed residential propertyclaims closed with payment.
|DOI says there are 170 impacted members of insured andself-insured healthcare accounts affected by the blast betweenApril 15 and April 19. Projected healthcare costs for services tobe provided through April 19, 2014 are $22.85million.
|One workers' compensation claim was filed and closed, for $257,according to the data collected by DOI.
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