Claims

Each issue, Claims CE provides several continuing education-based questions designed to test claim professionals on their knowledge of a particular topic. This month, we take a look at Catastrophes.

Three Allstate adjusters and two State Farm appraisers in Florida were arrested and charged with racketeering and grand theft auto for their roles in auto insurance fraud schemes.

Ambac claimants will receive cash and notes if a state court approves the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance's rehabilitation plan released Friday for the carrier's segregated account.

Standard & Poor's Rating Services said it expects no impact on the ratings of Horace Mann Educators Corp. after its chief executive resigned after one month into his 60-day sentence for a drunk driving charge.

Thirty-four-year-old Aaron Jones and his family seemed to have it all. That is, until it all went up in smoke and Jones was tried on felony convictions.

Zurich Financial Services Group said its subsidiary, Farmers Group has agreed in principle to a $545 million settlement of a class action lawsuit that had accused the insurance group of overcharging for fees paid by the Farmers Exchanges.

A three-judge panel in the First District Court of Appeals in Florida denied a request from the state's insurer of last resort to dismiss a lawsuit against it based on the belief the government entity is immune.

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