It was last year that we first told you about Amazon’s plans to enter the insurance industry as it lined up staff for its European business. Now, it appears to be making further overtures towards the sector.
The Trump administration is hollowing out regulations to the benefit of industries across the board, delivering on a central campaign theme. When it comes to insurance, however, there is only so much that Washington officials can do.
While self driving cars may be the direction the industry will be taking in the future, winter storms and snowy roads continue to be as much of a threat of auto insurance claims for those cars as the ones driven by people.
The parking lot of the strip center near Beechnut and Highway 6 began 2018 with reminders of 2017 strewn across the asphalt. Countless cardboard containers, most of them charred beyond recognition are evidence of a huge fireworks party that left a mess for the strip center and incredible damage to one man’s car.
Slippery conditions from a Saturday snowfall helped cause a big increase in the number of accidents investigated by State Police during the long New Year’s holiday weekend. From 12:01 a.m. on Friday to 11:59 p.m. on Monday, troopers responded to 494 accidents.
This year will go down as one of the worst in California wildfire history, the latest state fire statistics show. As of Dec. 11: <br />Large wildfires had destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in California this year, a higher tally than the last nine years combined.
At least 12 people were hurt on Tuesday as a fire tore through an apartment building in the Bronx, just days after another blaze in the New York City borough killed 12 people, a New York City Fire Department spokesman said.
One girl died and several other people were injured late Sunday night in a crash involving a Greyhound bus in Emery County.<br />According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a bus traveling from Denver to Las Vegas had just undergone a driver shift change in Green River when it veered off of I-70 near mile marker 113 around 11 p.m.
Firefighters from a dozen departments responded to a fire at a complex in Urbandale on Monday. A massive fire broke out at the Plumwood Terrace Condominiums at approximately 3:30 p.m.
A chain-reaction crash resulted in a multi-vehicle pileup along a major west Michigan highway. The year 2017 ended with winter weather wreaking havoc on roads.
A string of Christmas lights damaged by stapling caused a Kalamazoo house fire, authorities said. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find smoke coming from all sides of the house.
State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday urged insurance companies to provide North Bay fire victims up to 100 percent of their personal property coverage limits without requiring them to fill out a detailed inventory.
A Brooklyn woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly filing a fake insurance claim to a Woodbury company for a car that she knew was seized by police, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.
One person is dead and another was taken to a local trauma center Thursday morning after a natural gas explosion and fire at a Phoenix home, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
Three people were caught on security video grabbing hammers at a Target here, using one to smash a glass display case and stealing electronic products inside worth about $28,000, police say.
