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Sedgwick Announces Appointments Sedgwick has appointed a chief client officer, a president for specialty solutions and new claims team members in Hawaii. Scott Rodgers was appointed chief client officer for the Memphis, Tenn. based claims company. He most recently served … Source: Claims Journal

Davies Buys Johnson Claim Service in Okla. Davies, an international financial services firm based in London, is continuing its expansion into the US with the purchase of Johnson Claim Service Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Davies said Johnson Claim Service will … Source: Claims Journal

Insured losses from Hurricane Zeta, which became fifth named storm to strike Louisiana when it made landfall on Oct. 28, ranged from $1.5 billion to $4.4 billion, according to projections released Monday by two catastrophe risk modelers. Verisk subsidiary AIR … Source: Claims Journal

Tropical Storm Eta formed overnight in the Caribbean, becoming the Atlantic’s 28th storm of 2020 and tying a 2005 record for the most named systems in a single year in records going back to 1851. Forming southeast of Jamaica, Eta … Source: Claims Journal

IZMIR, Turkey — Rescue workers in western Turkey extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 66 people and injuring more … Source: Claims Journal

MANILA, Philippines — A super typhoon blew into the eastern Philippines with disastrous force Sunday, killing at least 10 people and triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed about 150 houses before weakening as it blew away from the country, officials said. … Source: Claims Journal

The University of Vermont Health Network, including six hospitals in Vermont and New York, on Friday was still dealing with a cyberattack that caused significant computer network problems with an official saying they did not know when the systems would … Source: Claims Journal

HANNA CITY, Ill. — This all started, this passion for collecting U.S. military-related memorabilia, when Jerry Lance was 6. That was 53 years ago. “I got my dad’s Navy uniform, and I was hooked on the military after that,” Lance … Source: Claims Journal

A ruling by a New York appellate court could bring more workers’ compensation claims by work-from-home employees by removing strict compensability standards established last year by the state Workers’ Compensation Board. The 3rd Judicial Department of the Supreme Court Appellate … Source: Claims Journal

There’s an old saying that “#$%^ runs downhill.” So, if you want to find the source of the #$%^ , you go to the top of the hill. A similar saying, more to the point, is “Garbage in, garbage out” … Source: Claims Journal