Governor Phil Bryant has declared a State of Emergency following widespread severe weather on Saturday. Sunday afternoon, the Governor and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) met to give an update to the public on the damage across the state. Officials say that 17 counties are dealing with damage from the storm.
A new report has estimated that the deadly spring blizzard that affected central US last week will lead to billions of dollars in damage and economic loss.
The advance of automation in the auto insurance industry could have come at the expense of the personal touch that consumers expect. But recent research shows that auto insurance carriers are succeeding in striking a balance.
A bill sponsored by the chairman of the Louisiana House Insurance Committee would restrict an auto insurer’s ability to write an estimate completely off of photos to undisputed supplements alone.
I’ve written for years about insurance claims departments and the men and women who work there. A high percentage of them are lawyers. I never truly understood their burden, however, until my first lawsuit arose.
Fast-moving storms pelted much of Bexar County and the area with big hail and high winds Saturday morning. One car dealership off I-10 near the Dominion said they had millions of dollars in damage, and every car on their lot got beaten by hail.
Weekend tornadoes killed at least five people, including three children, in the U.S. South, authorities said on Sunday, as a massive storm system with damaging wind and hail moved across the country and began drenching East Coast states.
Six years ago, in 2013, I started my campaign to rebrand the workers’ compensation industry. As many people know, I believe it should be called “Workers’ Recovery.” The idea isn’t simply to change the name; the belief has been that the simple adjustment of one word would shift the focus of our industry, reduce litigation, save money and improve outcomes.
A Bill Cosby defamation lawsuit filed by seven women against the actor was settled in federal court on Friday. According to the actor’s lawyers, this case was settled without Cosby’s knowledge.
Artificial intelligence has not reached the point where it is replacing humans in the insurance industry because many processes still require human intervention, speakers said at a recent insurance conference.
The task of a claims handler is to investigate and resolve claims. The task of a trucking claims handler is to investigate and resolve claims with the added understanding of those features particular to commercial vehicles and the trucking industry.
Unlike traditional property coverage, parametric insurance is a type of insurance that does not indemnify the pure loss, but rather issues a set payment upon the occurrence of an objective triggering event, such as an earthquake of a certain magnitude or a hurricane of a specific intensity.
