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WTW named Alena Kharkavets North American head of claims in its insurance consulting and technology business. She will work with clients to advance their claims analytics, embedding data science and AI into claims processes. She also offers advice to clients …
Via: Claims Journal
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit this week alleging General Motors and its telematics service provider OnStar collected driving data without consumers’ knowledge or consent to create driving scores that were later sold to insurance companies and used …
Via: Claims Journal
When Samantha Muñoz was a second grader at Fancher Creek Elementary in Clovis, her teacher told her she “wasn’t that bright” and needed extra help with schoolwork. He’d make her stay in the classroom at recess, or tell her to …
Via: Claims Journal
The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the legitimacy of expert testimony linking the heartburn drug Zantac to cancer, in a major win for makers of the product. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the state’s highest court agreed with the argument of …
Via: Claims Journal
Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the town of Bend, about two hours north of Austin, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his …
Via: Claims Journal
What happens when an employer and its workers’ compensation insurer deny a claim, then face a wrongful-death tort suit, then attempt to have the claim reinstated—going so far as to pay weekly wage amounts to the dead worker’s husband? In …
Via: Claims Journal
It may come as no surprise that heat-related worker injury claims rise on hot days, but the magnitude of the increase is an eye-opener. As temperatures skyrocketed during early summer heat waves across the United States, the Workers Compensation Research …
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Four people under 21 have been arrested as part of a police investigation into cyberattacks that disrupted the operations of U.K. retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, Britain’s National Crime Agency said on Thursday. April’s ransomware attack on …
Via: Claims Journal
Traffic fatalities fell roughly 6.3% in the first quarter of the year, reaching the lowest quarterly fatality rate in six years, an estimate from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows. The NHTSA released new data estimating 8,055 people were …
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reiterated her call to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even as the organization helps in search and recovery efforts following the catastrophic flooding in Texas that’s left more than 100 people dead. “This entire …
Via: Claims Journal