Uber has presented the latest member of its self-driving car fleet at its annual Elevate conference. The self-driving Volvo XC90 SUV is the first Uber vehicle designed without the need for a driver.
Last year saw a shift to real, use-case blockchain technology proof-of-concept projects in various markets, including shipping, insurance, logistics, mining, energy, and fine art.
TT Club and BSI have issued the second edition of their report on global cargo theft, the first to cover a full year. Highlighted findings include: theft from road vehicles once more accounts for the highest proportion at 84%....
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a settlement requiring insurers to pay $65 million to a court-appointed receiver for companies once run by Allen Stanford, the Texas financier serving a 110-year prison term for running a large Ponzi scheme.
Adjusters handling auto liability claims shouldn’t be too quick to settle and take what the plaintiff’s lawyer is saying with a grain of salt. These are among the takeaways from Thursday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision in Fleury v. Paulus.
One person was treated after a house exploded in Ridgefield, N.J. Monday. The explosion took place at 360 Abbott Avenue, near Elizabeth Street at around 11:30 a.m.
Companies dedicate significant resources to avoiding data breaches and managing other cyber risks. As a result, cybersecurity is a growing field within larger corporate IT, and has caught the eye of senior management.
Netting of subrogation payments, the exchanging of payments between carriers at regular intervals instead of on a claim-by-claim basis, is a concept that has been around since the mid-1990s.
Officials have confirmed that strong Saturday storms across Central Indiana produced at six tornadoes, leaving thousands without power and sparking severe flooding resulting in at least one water rescue.
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, is partnering with Owlcam, a Palo Alto, Calif-based provider of car security webcams and services, to improve the P&C insurer’s customer claims experience.
“It was all completely avoidable. It should never have happened.” Those were the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivor Marcio Gomes — whose stillborn son was the youngest fatality in the 2017 tragedy in the UK — when it was announced that a wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against US companies, including the manufacturer of the residential building’s combustible cladding.
It was a fire that crossed mountain ranges and valleys, that spanned multiple counties and shocked Californians by its sheer scale — by far the biggest wildfire in modern state history. And yet a newly disclosed investigation suggests it was probably started by a single man and a single spark.
Washington County’s Emergency Manager says 60 homes flooded, mostly in a neighborhood on the South side of Bartlesville. Many of them had water four feet and deeper.
