New Orleans and Efficient Proximate Cause
Ken Brownlee
Only those who have been dead for the past nine months are unaware that the great city of New Orleans was hit by Category 4 Hurricane Katrina.
Ken Brownlee
Only those who have been dead for the past nine months are unaware that the great city of New Orleans was hit by Category 4 Hurricane Katrina.
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The property and casualty insurance industry, which was measured by customers' satisfaction with their companies' coverage, premium rates, and claim handling, improved slightly by one percent.
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A class-action lawsuit with 669 plaintiffs was filed against State Farm Insurance Co. last month.
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Most independent adjusters are responsible for their own lodging and transportation expenses while working catastrophes. Can these expenses be deducted from an adjuster's yearly income?
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Insurers received nearly 674,000 claims for vehicles that were damaged or destroyed by last year's storms.
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The American Academy of Actuaries has submitted its analysis on terrorism risk insurance, concluding that a national framework for terrorism risk is necessary if terrorism coverage is to be widely and readily available.
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A key committee of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has approved a model law designed to limit the ability of trial lawyers to file class-action lawsuits that undermine the authority of state regulatory agencies.
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Describing the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia's road safety campaign as bold is like calling Mt. Everest tall. While technically it's true, it doesn't quite do the site justice.
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$7,967 a year, or roughly 52.2 cents per mile. That's how much a person driving a new-model, medium-sized sedan such as a Toyota Camry 15,000 miles a year can expect to pay annually.
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On average, four out of 10 Americans who have a homeowners' policy do not understand the relationship between a deductible and a premium.
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The NOAA recently installed five buoy stations off of the East and Gulf coasts and the Caribbean as part of the expansion of the U.S. tsunami warning system.
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A New Orleans couple was recently arrested on felony insurance fraud warrants by Louisiana's State Police Insurance Fraud Unit.
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June is the start of what is predicted to be a very busy hurricane season, which means carriers and independent staffing firms soon will need thousands of catastrophe adjusters.
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According to results from a study conducted by the Nebraska Auto Body Association, 64 percent of respondents said they would generally feel hesitant about filing an auto insurance claim.
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Whether risk managers have insurance or are self-insured, winning a claim often comes down to a contest between experts. Through testimony, your experts battle those of the other side.
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The company shifted platforms from Classic ASP to Microsoft's new ASP.NET platform, making it fully web-service enabled, and contains defined application, transaction, and data layers.
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Computer Sciences Corporation recently released a new version of its independent claims and risk management software, Riskmaster.
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A magnetic ink could allow insurance agents to print checks on demand, and adjusters to settle claims on the road.
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Washington State became the 41st state to adopt a coordinated approach to fraud fighting by opening a fraud bureau and adding a fraud prosecutor.
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A recent study conducted by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the Insurance Federation of Minnesota addressed the need for reform of the state's no-fault automobile insurance system.
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California's Low Cost Automobile Insurance program recently took effect throughout several areas in the state.
Matt Malone
Scientists on television's medical forensic dramas can solve crime in less than an hour.
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Adjusters and volunteers returning from working along the Gulf Coast region have brought more than just the feeling of a job well done with them.
Raj Manickam
Thermography is the use of an infrared imaging and measurement camera to see and measure thermal energy emitted from an object.
Billy S. Cox
One sunny spring morning, on a rural road just outside of Houston, Texas, Molly Jackson, a vibrant 16-year-old girl with a bright future and a new driver's license, was behind the wheel.
Dennis R. Andrews
Evidence such as damage, principle direction of force, hair, and blood speaks volumes about how an accident occurred.
Bruce Hillman, JD
This one just doesn't meet the "acid test" of insurance contract interpretation, pun intended.
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Some changes that will affect the insurance industry are still years away. Others are probably in the foreseeable future.