“Flight risk” is a term that resonates more with bail bondsmen than with claim managers. Nevertheless, flight risk imperils claim operations nowadays. The real assets of insurance companies and claim...

When Amtrak’s Vermonter passenger train headed toward Putney, Vt., on the tracks of the New England Central (NEC) at 3:40 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2005, there was no way that the engineer could have known...

The season ranks as one of the more active in the 64 years since comprehensive record-keeping began. A total of 16 named storms formed in 2008, based on an operational estimate by National Oceanic...

These four areas will test insurers’ abilities to react to a marketplace that is being assaulted by crises. Specifically, TowerGroup said that risk and regulation will be at the forefront as...

This month, the Windstorm Insurance Network will be hosting its 10th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference, or WIND 2009. Taking place Jan. 25-28, 2009, at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Fla.,...

To examine the underlying psychological principles and implications of juror skepticism toward expert testimony, Claims’ Christina Bramlet enlisted the expertise of Steven M. Gursten...

In discussing McIntosh v. State Farm with Attorney Jay Brown for this month’s cover story, I was struck at how the utter disintegration of the case, which was deemed the torch that would burn down...