Archive for June 2022

Verisk Appoints Claims Solutions President Verisk announced that Maroun Mourad will succeed Rich Della Rocca as president, claims solutions on July 1. “We have a deep and talented bench of executives at Verisk, and Maroun was selected from a strong … Source: Claims Journal

New MGA Peddling Water Loss Sensors A New York City-based managing general agent is bundling builders risk insurance policies with sensors to detect leaks and prevent water damage, a significant source of claims. Insight Risk said when a contractor buys … Source: Claims Journal

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday said it was upgrading its probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with its advanced driver assistance system Autopilot, a required step before it could seek a recall. The auto safety agency in August … Source: Claims Journal

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A passenger train traveling through eastern Iran struck an excavator and nearly half its cars derailed before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring 87, officials said. The derailment near the desert city … Source: Claims Journal

BOSTON (AP) — A digital attack on a Massachusetts-based health care organization may have compromised the personal information of as many as 2 million people, officials said. Shields Health Care Group Inc., which provides imaging and ambulatory surgical services at … Source: Claims Journal

FRIENDSHIP, Ark. (AP) — Traffic remained blocked Thursday morning in westbound lanes of heavily traveled Interstate 30 in southwestern Arkansas, where at least three people were killed the previous day during a series of crashes that happened during stormy weather, … Source: Claims Journal

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ A fire caused by suspected arson spread through an office building Thursday in South Korea’s Daegu city, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, fire and police officials said. Dozens of firefighters and vehicles … Source: Claims Journal

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt … Source: Claims Journal

The 5-Star Safety Rating Program that Americans use when shopping for new passenger vehicles “fails consumers” by not including collision-avoidance and other technology in the ratings and is approaching “near irrelevance,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said. In … Source: Claims Journal

UMIA Insurance refused to accept an $800,000 settlement in a malpractice suit against a plastic surgeon who shared nude before-and-after photographs of a patient’s body with a Fox News affiliate. The insurer could pay more than three times that amount … Source: Claims Journal