Allstate is partnering with Uber Technologies to provide the ridesharing firm’s drivers with commercial auto coverage. Uber’s drivers in Illinois, New Jersey and Wisconsin will receive the coverage beginning March 01, a release said.
A room full of industry lobbyists and Florida’s insurance commissioner converged to defend the state’s no-fault car insurance system against a repeal effort in the state Senate, leaving the state among a few keeping a no-fault plan and its drivers paying among the top six average U.S. premiums.
The threat of deadly mudslides from an impending Pacific storm prompted authorities on Thursday to order mandatory evacuations for some 30,000 people living adjacent to fire-scarred foothills and mountain slopes along California’s Santa Barbara coast.
Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.
As the insurance industry grapples with how to survive in a changing business, third-party administrators [TPAs] need to consider the expansion of their services to meet the needs of insureds. These claims administration firms are the industry’s ‘sleeping giant.’
An Oregon developer serving a 10-year prison term in a mortgage-fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four more years because he ordered his teenage son to shoot him in the legs in a failed effort to collect on a disability insurance policy.
Darnell Shobey, 31, of Tacoma, pleaded guilty in Pierce County Superior Court on Feb. 23 to first-degree attempted theft, a felony. He was sentenced to serve two months in the Pierce County jail and to pay $1,200 in court fees.
U.S. pedestrian deaths totaled nearly 6,000 in 2017 for the second straight year amid mounting signs that walkers and drivers are dangerously distracted, according to a new study.
Around eight years ago, when he was still a station foreman at Alaska’s department of transportation, Dan Schacher noticed that winter temperatures began fluctuating between very cold and the kind of cold that causes a mixture of rain and snow to hit freezing concrete and turn into ice.
Authorities are urging people to flee areas devastated by a deadly California mudslide because of a coming storm. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says a recommended evacuation warning goes into effect at 8 a.m. Wednesday for Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria.
January’s “bomb cyclone” brought heavy snow, ice, and bitter cold to most of the East Coast. Winter storm warnings were issued from Massachusetts to Florida, the latter of which issued a rare freeze warning for most of the state.
“That largely explains it,” Insurance Institute of Indiana and State Farm lobbyist Jon Zarich told a state House committee Feb. 21 in presenting an amendment at least one of them hadn’t seen. But his summary of the amended Senate Bill 164 omitted any mention that the proposed language would effectively strip away auto insurance policyholders’ right to assign insurance benefits to body shops.
School resumes Monday after a fast-moving fire decimated the Pensylvania district’s fleet of buses. The fast-moving blaze at a Parkland School District garage in South Whitehall, near Allentown, was reported around 3 a.m. Friday.
A new storm is expected to bring additional weather misery this week to areas struggling to recover from a relentless series of weekend storms and tornadoes.
