Hurricane season predictions are in; 2012 should be ‘milder’

Tue Apr 24th, 2012 on     Homeowners Insurance,    

Florida homeowners dread this time of year. For some, hurricane predictions may be harder to take than the storms themselves. It may be the sense of helplessness in the face of nature. It may be the fear of reliving that day in 2005 when the homeowner discovered too late that hurricane insurance benefits wouldn’t cover all the damage. It may be memories of the “chicken little” warnings over the past two years.

Titanic sinks! Insurance claims mount for passengers, cargo p4

Fri Apr 20th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

We are finishing up our series of posts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. There is something about the disaster, something that has particularly captured the imagination for the past century. For us, of course, it’s a great story about insurance coverage and claim payments. But for others, it is the folly of believing the ship to be unsinkable; or it is the appalling loss of life, or the fact that so many famous people were on the ship; or it is the sheer luxury of the ship that passengers enjoyed for a few short days. Titanic has become a metaphor for just about everything: hubris, glamour, human error and class differences.

Titanic sinks! Insurance claims mount for passengers, cargo p3

Wed Apr 18th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

The history of insurance is remarkably interesting. While gambling on risk dates back to ancient civilizations, most insurance wonks consider the introduction of “modern” insurance to date to the late 17th Century at Lloyd’s coffee house. Of course, if you ask some Florida homeowners, not much has changed in the last 300 years: It can still take months or years for an insurance company to pay a claim.

Titanic sinks! Insurance claims mount for passengers, cargo p2

Sat Apr 14th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

John Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus, Benjamin Guggenheim: These men were just three of the millionaires lost on Titanic. Their estates were worth millions — Straus, $4.4 million; Guggenheim, $3.5 million; Astor, untold millions, considering he left trusts for his unborn son of $3 million and his widow of $5 million. Their wealth was enough that their families may not have worried about their life insurance policies paying out quickly, or at all.

Titanic sinks! Insurance claims mount for passengers, cargo

Thu Apr 12th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

When the Costa Concordia foundered in January, insurance industry insiders thought the cruise line’s Florida-based parent company would avoid insurance and legal liability. It seemed that, with their ticket purchase, passengers agreed to pursue legal actions through the Italian courts. The venue for insurance claim disputes has been a source of contention.

Florida capital opts for free speech over liability insurance rule

Sat Apr 7th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

There are all sorts of laws that apply to parades, demonstrations and marches. Generally, if a group wants to use city streets, the city must first give them permission. Before they grant permission, though, city governments ask for certain reassurances from the organizers. Key among those is that the sponsoring organization has liability insurance to cover the event.

Insurer says its D&O insurers acted in bad faith in claim dispute

Wed Apr 4th, 2012 on     Uncategorized,    

A major insurance company, Washington Mutual Inc., filed a lawsuit in March accusing a dozen other insurers of improperly denying it coverage for claims under directors’ and officers’ liability policies issued in 2008 and 2009. Washington Mutual is asserting that it is entitled to $250 million in coverage, and that the other insurers breached their covenants of good faith and fair dealing in denying coverage.

Judge orders Medicaid to cover autism therapy for kids in need

Fri Mar 30th, 2012 on     Health Insurance,    

Commercial insurance providers cover a critical therapy program for children with autism. It’s called applied behavioral analysis and autistic children who go through the program usually experience dramatically positive effects on their condition, bolstering their language and cognitive abilities as well as improving their social interaction and behavioral skills. The program comes at a financial cost though, leaving impoverished families with little chance of sending a child with autism through ABA.

‘I’d like to thank the academy, my mom and my insurance carrier’ p3

Sat Mar 24th, 2012 on     Insurance Claims,    

We are finishing up our foray into the magic of movies and their multiple perils. According to movie and insurance industry professionals, few insurance companies provide all the different policies a production would need. It apparently takes a cast of thousands of risk managers to determine what kinds of coverage and what limits are appropriate for any given movie.

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