Crews worked to put out a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged four buildings in Seattle’s north Beacon Hill neighborhood early Thursday. Seattle fire said the fire alarm center received a call about a fire at a new construction site at 5:42 a.m.
A pair of tropical depressions were forecast to approach U.S. shores as more potent systems by early next week, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
Distracted driving and major speeding violations are on the rise, and technology will play a key role in helping to keep drivers safe and shaping the auto insurance customer experience, according to a new report from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a provider of advanced analytics services for businesses and governmental entities.
Today’s underwriting environment is under constant siege. New and emerging risks are mandating new underwriting and portfolio risk management techniques that demand improved or enhanced technologies to bolster performance.
In a matter of days, the LNU Lightning Complex -- named for the fires ignited by a rash of thunderstorms early this week — had charred 124,000 acres and was 0% contained, according to Cal Fire’s latest status report posted 7 p.m. Wednesday.
COVID-19 has forced many people to work from home. In many ways, this has reduced some risks - for example fewer people will be a victim of theft or burglary, and household damage such as burst pipes and leaking appliances will be reduced, which can hold the highest cost to home insurers.
Nearly 11,000 lightning strikes have sparked 367 wildfires, with more than 300,000 acres burned across the state, Cal Fire spokesman Jeremy Rahn said Wednesday.
In recent years, awareness of climate risks has risen, with numerous studies illustrating the detrimental impacts of climate change on the natural environment and human society.
New York state filed civil charges on Tuesday accusing Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Allergan Plc with insurance fraud for downplaying the risks of their opioid painkillers to patients and doctors.
Severe storms ripped through Central Florida during a tornado warning Tuesday afternoon, causing “significant damage” in DeLand and prompting deputies to go door to door looking for possible victims, according to sheriff’s officials.
When I began thinking about some of the lessons I’ve learned in flood litigation, I made a list of estimating errors, coverage mistakes and customer service disasters that could have been avoided. Then I threw the list away.
A bridge near Westphalia collapsed Monday after a semi-trailer attempted to cross. The Pentecostal Bridge, which takes County Road 611 across the Maries River, had a 5-ton weight limit, Osage County Sheriff Micahel Bonham said.
The industry has speculated for years whether and when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would seek to enforce civil monetary penalties (CMPs) that were provided for the in Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP). Now, we are almost there.
Lately, I’ve been speaking with a lot of young and successful insurance pros who complain about the same frustration. Generally, they have been at the same company for a while and have grown into middle-level independent contributor roles and have been in their current role between two and four years.
