Firefighters continue to battle the Mountain Fire and the deadly Mill Fire burning in Northern California, which grew minimally Monday night following explosive starts Friday in Siskiyou County. The Mill Fire has killed at least two residents, women ages 66 and 73, and has destroyed at least 91 buildings after igniting near the city of Weed on Friday afternoon and burning north into the community of Lake Shastina.
General Motors, Ford, and Rivian have launched recall campaigns that affect some 400,000 vehicles, according to the OEM’s filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to pay more than $22 million to a former executive whom the bank allegedly fired for reporting financial misconduct, the agency said Thursday.
Amidst a rapid proliferation of social-media posts offering people tips on how to easily steal a Kia or Hyundai automobile, two Iowans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the car makers. Ann Brady of Polk County and Leah Price of Decatur County are suing Kia America, Inc., Hyundai Motor America, and Hyundai Kia America Technical Center.
It’s a great trivia question. Which state has the most dog bite claims? The answer probably won’t surprise you -- California, with 2,103 insurance claims in 2020, followed by Florida, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois.
A first-of-its-kind law in Ohio gives employees who work from home parameters for what constitutes a work-related injury outside of the employer’s physical domain, an issue that has been raised in courtrooms across the country with varying results.
AXA staged a public crash test of a Tesla to demonstrate the risk of a battery fire, but there was no battery in the vehicle. In a video shared by AXA, a Tesla Model S is seen scraping over a ramp before overturning, hitting the ground and catching fire.
On Friday, August 19, a huge fire ripped through the historic and family-owned Mattapoisett Boatyard in southern Massachusetts, a short distance south of MWL’s Boston office. The fire destroyed five buildings, three dozen cars, and countless expensive boats.
AIG’s National Union Fire Insurance Company has been sued by Sunoco subsidiary Aloha Petroleum for refusing to cover the costs of defending climate-related claims by local governments in Hawaii.
In a recent claim investigation, a large printing press motor shorted out causing sparks and overheating of paper bales, which in turn, created smoke and soot damage on the surrounding equipment and numerous areas throughout the property. In total, the damage extended to more than 300 pieces of equipment and created over $10M of potential exposure.
A Leon County circuit judge has rejected a challenge by contractors to part of a new property-insurance law that restricted attorney fees in insurance disputes. Judge J. Lee Marsh issued an order Monday dismissing a constitutional challenge filed in May by the Restoration Association of Florida and Air Quality Assessors, LLC, an Orlando firm that does work such as mold testing and leak detection.
A Washington state judge has struck down a state rule banning the use of credit-based insurance scores. On Monday, Judge Indu Thomas rendered a final order declaring that Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler exceeded his authority when he issued a permanent rule prohibiting the use of credit-based insurance scores.
One of the ways automakers are addressing the surging numbers of pedestrian fatalities is with pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems that are designed to detect anyone in your car’s path and stop your car before hitting them.
A settlement has been reached in a Mississippi class action suit accusing USAA of failing to pay the full actual cash value (ACV) of totaled vehicles, just days after a judge rejected the carrier’s motion to dismiss the suit.
Email scams and viruses are nothing new -- threats like phishing emails and malware have been around since the days when services like AOL still dominated the internet and email landscape.
