The severity of some accidents may increase as vehicles become driverless, in part because driver orientation will change, a crash reconstructionist told Canadian Underwriter in an interview last week.
One day last month our firm received three separate, unrelated subrogation claim files involving serious personal injury, property damage, and a death resulting from tractor-trailers whose drivers had swerved to avoid colliding with a deer on the highway.
The insurance agency holding the policy on the aircraft in which Scott T. Foster and three others were killed has filed an answer in federal court to allegations of a violation of the Kentucky Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act.
Progressive Insurance Co.’s Snapshot Program is the focus of a proposed class action lawsuit filed in Ohio district court. According to the 13-page complaint, the Snapshot device that drivers plug directly into their cars to collect data for the purpose of calculating insurance rates is defective to the extent that it may significantly damage the user’s vehicle.
The United States Coast Guard is suspending its search for three people missing after a helicopter crashed near Lituya Bay Friday evening. The Coast Guard announced that the search was suspended around 12:30 p.m. Sunday after more than 36 hours had passed since the crash.
Hurricane Rosa weakened into a tropical storm Sunday as it headed toward northwest Mexico and parts of the Southwest, prompting storm warnings for the Baja California coast and flash-flood watches for parts of four American states.
The tornado count from last week’s severe storms in southern Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin now stands at 16. Fifteen of those tornadoes were in Minnesota, making the Sept. 20 storms the largest September tornado outbreak on record in the state, according to the National Weather Service.
Hurricane Rosa intensified to a Category 4 storm Friday morning with maximum sustained winds topping nearly 145 mph. Rosa is expected to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico late Monday or early Tuesday.
The coroner said two people died after a plane crash at the Greenville Downtown Airport Thursday afternoon and officials asked people to avoid the area due to a Hazmat situation. Witnesses nearby said the plane was broken in half at the edge of Airport Road and the white fence surrounding the airport.
Although 2017 — fraught with catastrophic incidents — was one of the costliest years on record for the global insurance industry, Aon’s new report has found that insurers’ capacity to meet their losses continues to grow.
The storms that came through central Ohio Wednesday morning left major damage on the east side of Columbus. The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-1 tornado is responsible.
Many home and business owners in the Pee Dee are filing insurance claims to help pay for the damage that Hurricane Florence left behind. One of those businesses is Latta Feeding Farms. The owner, Jamie Deaver, says it wasn’t floodwaters that damaged his store, it was the wind.
The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance, a blockchain consortium representing 31 risk management and insurance companies, announced today that it has selected global professional-services organization Deloitte to help advance its blockchain application and product-development efforts.
