Archive for December 2018

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman commended Zenith Insurance Company and ZNAT Insurance Company, the first insurers to submit informational workers’ compensation filings that describe how the insurance companies are retroactively correcting charges to employers for their workers’ compensation policies written … Source: Claims Journal

A federal judge on Monday ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shortly after being released from that country. U.S. … Source: Claims Journal

The email caught the executive at a small Connecticut company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that … Source: Claims Journal

President Donald Trump’s administration miscalculated the potential benefits of putting better brakes on trains that haul explosive fuels when it scrapped an Obama-era rule over cost concerns, The Associated Press has found. A government analysis used by the administration to … Source: Claims Journal

The legal consequences for repeatedly driving under the influence in Pennsylvania have become much more severe under a new law that just took effect. Legislation passed in October by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Tom Wolf established the … Source: Claims Journal

Missouri landowners and environmentalists are urging a federal agency to sanction a levee district on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, arguing that the earthen barrier has been built above its authorized height, worsening flooding for its neighbors. Great … Source: Claims Journal

An emphasis on current laws and focus on insurtech were some of the highlights of Claims Journal’s top read contributed articles of 2018. Slower Traffic Keep Right: A Summary of State ‘Keep Right’ Traffic Laws by Gary L. Wickert, Matthiesen, … Source: Claims Journal

An extremely rare tornado that touched down west of Seattle was the strongest to hit Washington state since 1986, the National Weather Service said Wednesday. A Weather Service storm team surveyed the damage just south of Port Orchard, Washington, and … Source: Claims Journal

Work to widen roads and make other safety improvements is planned in an area of Ohio’s Amish country plagued by crashes resulting in injuries, according to federal and state officials. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Ohio Department of … Source: Claims Journal

A Delaware judge has ruled that a medical marijuana user fired from his factory job after failing a drug test can pursue a lawsuit against his former employer. Jeremiah Chance was fired in 2016 from his job as a yard … Source: Claims Journal