Litigation

Slip and fall incidents account for 65% of lost work days. See how much that costs workplaces and what you can do to prevent them from happening.

Amid the worst safety-defect crisis in its history, General Motors Co. executives and staff have taken to social media to find customer complaints and identify quality issues long before they become a crisis.

The lengths fraudsters will go to in order to perpetrate a fraud never cease to amaze me. Im not sure if it's their audacious behavior, their creativity, their stupidity, or the fact that they just think theyll never be caught. I often wonder what diseases could be cured or social...

America's most notorious insurance schemers have earned leadership of their moral wasteland by induction into the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame.

As we look back on 2014 and forward to 2015, insurers should continue to pay attention to the effect of wage and hour employment claims on Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) coverage. Wage and hour claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law equivalents continued to...

Notification of a claim or commencement of a suit requires considering what must be done, now. But too much focus on the present without considering a claim's entire potential lifespan is shortsighted. The possibility of an appeal should influence a claim handler's decisions at each step of a claim. Defense...

Wright National Flood Insurance and U.S. Forensic, an engineering firm, were sued by New York homeowners who claim the companies conspired to manipulate reports and avoid paying for damages from Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

The death raises to five the number of U.S. fatalities tied to air bag inflators suspected of spewing shrapnel when deployed in a crash.