Investigative & Forensics

The federal government overpaid upward of $177.2 million for disaster recovery in Florida in 2004 and 2005, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General.

It's not much of a stretch to say that an insurer's duty to defend has been litigated over the years at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. There are three issues that have accounted for a substantial amount of that litigation.

Staples said 1.16 million payment cards may have been affected in a series of data breaches that occurred from July into September.

Allegations of automobile malfunctions having caused an accident are often the basis for a claim against an automotive repair facility. The scenario usually develops as follows. An automotive repair facility works on a vehicle and releases it to the owner after the repair has been completed. Shortly afterward, the vehicle...

America is the most litigious nation on earth. American jurisprudence is patterned on British common law and follows much the same rules as in our colonial days. Concepts such as innocent until proven guilty, right to a jury trial of one's peers, right of appeal, and the difference between civil...

Coinsurance is an often misunderstood term and one that causes frequent dissatisfaction with insureds over claim settlements

Recently, I was in the office of our family orthopedist and saw the group's mission statement on a poster. As I read the commitments listed there, it occurred to me that all of these could also apply to claims management, but two of them were especially applicable

Sony Pictures decision to let Seth Rogen make a comedy about a plot to kill a head of state will potentially cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars after a devastating cyber-attack linked to North Korea.