Automation has extended beyond document handling into submission triage, which Kussurelis described as a major area of evolution. Previously, underwriting assistants played a central role in gathering materials and organizing submissions before review. Today, systems ingest incoming emails, verify completeness, and initiate follow-ups automatically based on predefined requirements. “The system can identify whether all required attachments are present,” he said, noting that missing information triggers automatic responses to producers.
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The backstory, according to the filing, is straightforward. On February 8, 2022, Progressive’s insured, Gregory Oberting, rear-ended Lloyd McVey in Lantana, Florida, while driving a Porsche Panamera. Progressive sat on the primary auto policy with a $500,000 bodily injury limit. Hudson sat above it with a $1 million personal umbrella – a policy the complaint says was “specially written to be excess of the personal automobile liability coverage” provided by Progressive.
AkinovA, the technology-led re/insurance platform focused on expanding access to underwriting capital for large corporate risks, including via capital markets participation, has appointed Matthew Gilpin as Group Chief Operating Officer (COO).Gilpin, who joined the firm at the beginning of May, brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience across regulated financial services, capital formation, governance and multi-jurisdictional platform development. Gilpin reportedly joins AkinovA as the company begins to move into its next phase of growth, which comes as it continues to expand its platform and technology infrastructure in order to support new underwriting capital for complex, high-value corporate risks.…
According to the filing, the trouble traces back to February 26, 2020, when a mechanic named Ancil Griffith was caulking a duct penetration at a construction site. His ladder, the suit says, slipped into a gap between the floor and the wall, and he fell. Griffith eventually sued in state court, alleging herniated discs and sprained ligaments in his spine, and pointing the finger at the building’s owners, the project’s general contractor, and others under New York’s Labor Law.
The auto insurer laid out its case in a federal lawsuit filed May 5, 2026, in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The defendants are Adrian Sagman, a licensed chiropractor; his practice, Adrian Sagman, D.C., P.A., which does business as Miramar Medical Center; and a second entity he owns, Dorsal Rehab, Inc. According to the filing, the two clinics submitted thousands of Personal Injury Protection (PIP) charges since 2020 for services GEICO says were medically unnecessary, exaggerated, unlawfully performed, or in some cases never performed at all. None of these allegations have been tested in court.
The healthcare giant increased its adjusted earnings guidance for 2026 by more than 4% as CVS saw “substantial improvement” in its health benefits segment, CFO Brian Newman said on an earnings call.
The Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit filed against State Farm by homeowners who lost their homes in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. The case, Ferrier v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, is pending in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. It was brought by 60 homeowners who lost their homes in the wildfires. They allege that the defendants, which include 16 homeowners insurance companies, conspired to cancel their fire insurance policies in the years leading up to the fires. The homeowners say they were forced to obtain insurance from the California…
Chemical food additive and pesticide concerns associated with the Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement are shared broadly across the public. But when it comes to voters, health care costs are a higher priority and bigger motivator, even among MAHA supporters, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. When asked to identify their most important health priority for government to address, far more MAHA-supporting voters identify lowering the cost of health care (42%) than other issues more closely associated with the movement, such as restricting the use of chemical additives in the food supply (21%), reevaluating the safety of vaccines…
Air and wastewater may help spread bird flu on California dairy farms, according to a study that points to more transmission routes than previously understood. Researchers sampling 14 infected farms found the H5N1 virus in the air during milking, in cows’ breath and in farm wastewater, pointing to multiple possible routes of transmission beyond contact with contaminated milk. The findings, published Tuesday in PLOS Biology, add to concerns that the outbreak in U.S. cattle could expose farm workers and other animals. H5N1 is spreading globally in birds and spilling into mammals including cattle, elephant seals and sea lions. Human cases…
Insurance giant American International Group said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell its remaining stake in life insurance and retirement firm Corebridge Financial, marking the culmination of a five-year separation. Here are some details: AIG has agreed to sell …
White Mountains reported that the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, which supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, continued to deliver positive income through the first-quarter of 2026, as even without having made a fresh sidecar investment for this year, benefits still flow for the company.Recall that, Ark renewed its Outrigger Re sidecar for the 2026 underwriting year in late 2025. The level of capital in the sidecar vehicle declined to just $70 million, as Ark adopted a new strategy of using more traditional quota share reinsurance capacity. At that renewal of the sidecar all of the $70 million…
Five Allstate entities are named as plaintiffs, lining up against more than a dozen defendants. According to the filing, the cast includes Rogers Park itself, the surgery center’s current and former owners Narjisha Thowfeek and Mohamed Sirajudeen (also known as Mohamed Siraj), Peterson Surgery Center LLC (now doing business as Rogers Park Surgery Center), chiropractor Manish D. Pandya, several affiliated providers – 87th Street Rehab Clinic, Deen Health System, New Life Medical Center, Advanced Medical Center, Paulina Anesthesia and RPAV Management DME – and the outside billing company AMS Medical Billing Consultants.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is weighing whether to sign or veto legislation that would, for the first time, allow Virginians to file class action lawsuits in state courts — a shift advocates say would expand access to justice, but one that has drawn pushback over how far the change should go. Proposal would create long-missing legal pathway, but governor’s changes draw pushback over limits on venue and damages. Virginia is one of only two states, along with Mississippi, that does not provide a formal class action procedure in its state court system. As a result, groups of plaintiffs cannot currently band…
The trouble started with David Friend, a tenant at the Solace apartment complex in Portland, according to the filing. Friend filed a class action accusing Marathon – which, the filing says, also manages other Oregon complexes including Glendoveer Woods, Bridgeton, McKinney Lane, Bell Tower, Willamette Estates and Arris – of breaking the state’s landlord-tenant statutes in a number of ways. The allegations include monthly utility charges billed without proper documentation, an unexplained “Meter Reading” fee tacked onto rents, lease provisions that allegedly cap tenants’ legal remedies, and renter’s insurance requirements that, according to Friend, did not follow Oregon’s rules. Marathon and the…