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• Legal Briefs: Allergic reaction to food ruled not compensable.(workers' compensation cases)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-04

  An employee who experiences an allergic reaction to food served at a luncheon his employer directed him to attend cannot recover workers compensation benefits, an Illinois appellate court ruled. Jack Rodin, an electrical contractor, was a foreman o An employee who experiences an allergic...

  Tags: compensation, Continental Casualty Co., ERISA, food, worker, workers compensation

• Fuzzy wording costs insurer $1 million.(Continental Casualty Co.)

  - 1997-10-20

  A subsidiary of CNA may have to pay a widow more than $1 million because a jury thought the Chicago-based company used a vague definition for the word "accident" in an insurance policy. U.S. District Judge Harold Baer, Jr. recently uphe A...

  Tags: Continental Casualty Co., JUDGE

• $3B committed to asbestos claims. (personal injury suits filed against Fibreboard Corp.)

  - 1993-09-06

  In what could be a precedent-setting settlement in an asbestos liability suit, Chubb Corp. and CNA Ins. Cos. have agreed to pay Fibreboard Corp. up to $3 billion to cover claims by people harmed by the company's cancer-causing asbestos products. I In what...

  Tags: A.M. Best Co., agreement, Chubb Corp., Continental Casualty Co., settlement

• Return-of-premium offered in CNA's new LTC policy. (Continental Casualty Co.; long-term care)

  - 1991-06-24

  Continental Casualty, a CNA company in Chicago, took its LTC policies back to the drawing boards a while back, and the result is an entrely new generation: Long Term Care and Long Term Care Plus. Continental Casualty, a CNA company in Chicago, took its LTC...

  Tags: Continental Casualty Co., long-term care