Claims

After a single auto insurance claim of $2,000 or more, drivers can expect their premiums to rise by two-fifths, according to a study by insuranceQuotes.com, an insurance aggregator and consumer information company.

New York homeowners have filed at least three lawsuits in federal court accusing the insurers of scheming with engineering firms, and others involved in handling claims to deny or reduce damage payouts.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau has issued a warning about stolen cars with duplicate VINs and offers website for verifications.

Deloitte’s Sam Friedman suggests the industry can use its influence to impact the national agenda.

Insurers must choose between embracing innovation or just continuing with business as usual and run the risk of becoming a casualty in the new competitive battle.

Developing a usage-based insurance program has now gotten easier.

The HealthEdge platform is expected to deliver flexible product and benefit designs and real-time claims processing.

This emerging intelligent network of millions of interconnected objects is destined to change the nature of insurance.

Overall losses from natural catastrophes were $110 billion, well below the inflation-adjusted average values of the past ten years, according to Munich Re, the German insurer.

The insurer has added pollution exposures to its U.S. casualty underwriting capabilities and announces new leadership for its environmental business.

Berkshire is already among the largest reinsurers of asbestos and environmental policies.

The commercial use of drones has the potential to transform many industries—insurance among them.

Reinsurers are seeking to shore up earnings as lower losses from natural disasters and a greater availability of capital weigh on prices.

Claim supervisors face challenges in making time to perform their most important task, according to Towers Watson survey

The race to ‘go digital’ is on as insurers focus their innovation efforts on these five technologies.

INN and Celent recognized the insurance industry’s most innovative solution providers and carriers at our eighth annual awards ceremony in New Orleans.

The web-based, policy, billing, claims and reinsurance insurance administration system from Maximum Processing is intended to help the insurer improve client offerings, productivity and operational efficiencies.

New offerings target MGAs, TPAs, workers comp, self-insureds and mutual carriers

Blind-spot and lane-departure systems are immature, and drivers must still learn how to use them, according to AAA engineering experts.

The insurance industry’s list of cars and trucks that do the best job of keeping owners alive in a crash jumped 82 percent this year against a backdrop of U.S. recalls of older models that were killing their passengers.