A dozen lawsuits have been lodged against State Farm agents over claims that the agents deceived customers about the type of coverage they had – even going as far as to forge customers’ signatures to waive options for additional coverage.
The bad news is insurance premiums are likely to go up if, as predicted, the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and wildfires increases as a result of climate change.
Yet another hurricane season has left a broad swath of America’s coast in recovery mode following a once-in-a-generation storm, and wildfires are devastating California. The disasters remind the rest of us how fortunate we are to be safe.
Claims for damage from Hurricane Irma in Florida have now topped $11 billion. More than 1 million Florida property owners have filed claims for insured losses from Irma, according to the latest report from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.
A vehicle is reported stolen in Dallas on average every 54 minutes and the problem is getting worse. While overall property crime in North Texas is down, auto thefts in Dallas have increased more than 18 percent in the past year.
Florida’s second-largest home insurer, Security First Insurance faced more than 3,000 claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael earlier this year. It was the perfect time to deploy a new tool to help manage the load: A new chatbot servicing affected policyholders.
An explosion Saturday at a hazardous waste site in southwestern Idaho killed one worker, injured three others and heavily damaged a building, officials said. US Ecology, which runs the site, said Monte “Alex” Green of Grand View, Idaho, died of his injuries from the explosion at 9:23 a.m. inside one of the buildings at the facility.
A clinic owner, a doctor and an attorney are among those charged in connection with a $1 million insurance scam, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood has announced.
A week after reporting a power-line outage near where the Camp Fire is suspected of starting, Pacific Gas & Electric said in a regulatory filing that it suffered a second problem with a high voltage line the morning the devastating fire ignited.
Risk modeling firm RMS said on Monday that it estimated insured losses from the Camp and Woolsey wildfires, which ravaged California, between $9 billion and $13 billion.
While property crime has mostly been going down over the last decade, one kind has spiked in Missouri. Auto thefts are up. Way up. “Missouri is a leader, unfortunately in the nation in terms of auto theft,” says Cpl. Nate Bradley with the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Two people died in a chain reaction crash involving several big rigs on Interstate 78 westbound in Windsor Township, Berks County, Wednesday afternoon.
Rain, freezing rain and sleet combined to create a nightmare on roads and bridges in southern Summit and Stark counties early Thursday, resulting in numerous crashes and one fatality.
