Puerto Rico is in ruins. Thousands are displaced in Houston. The Gulf Coast is bracing for a fresh round of hurricanes. Now, epic wildfires are incinerating California.
With over a month and a half left in the 2017 hurricane season, a record that has stood for over 100 years may soon be equalled, and could fall. Tropical Storm Ophelia is expected to strengthen to a hurricane as it spins far out over the Atlantic.
A lawsuit seeking to represent the victims of the Las Vegas rampage, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, was filed against the makers of so-called bump stocks, which the shooter used to achieve a near-automatic rate of fire.
The damage in some neighborhoods of Caldwell County is devastating after strong storms -- and possibly a tornado -- blew through the area Sunday night.
The 17 wildfires that have burned more than 115,000 acres in California since Sunday have now been blamed for 17 deaths. The fast-moving blazes have destroyed at least 2,000 buildings, many of them in the wine country region of Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties.
Adam Loos tried to raise his hand but he couldn’t beat the speed of a foul ball that smacked his 60-year-old father in the face and left the man blind in one eye after a late-August Cubs game at Wrigley Field.
A Washington man is accused of running a bar while claiming he was too injured to work, a scheme that allegedly provided him more than $230,000 in state workers compensation and federal disability benefits, according to state regulators.
American International Group expects to record insurance losses of roughly $3 billion during the third quarter from the recent hurricanes and earthquakes.
A Florida man trekked through the strongest part of Hurricane Nate to capture flooding of a Biloxi casino on video. Mike Theiss, a storm chaser and National Geographic photographer, took video of flooding from the first floor of Golden Nugget Casino Resort Saturday night as the eyewall of Nate made its way over Biloxi and the rest of the Mississippi Coast.
About 85 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production is offline in the aftermath of Hurricane Nate, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Monday.
At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 were injured on Monday as massive wildfires swept through parts of California, destroying 1,500 residences and buildings, authorities said. Firefighters were battling 17 fires across multiple counties around the state as of late Monday night, authorities said.
Wearable technology has advanced from simply storing data to helping prevent or reduce workplace accidents, and can provide employers and insurers with invaluable information, industry analysts said Thursday. However, that information must be properly stored, processed and protected, they added.
Howling winds, deadly floods, fire and ice so far this year have pushed the U.S. into a tie for weather disasters that topped in $1 billion in damages. There have been 15 costly disasters through September, tying 2011 for the most billion-dollar weather disasters for the first nine months of a year.
The U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just published data as of August 2017 on detailed insurance industry employment, and the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) website contains updated multi-decade trend data in chart form.
Fire destroyed neighborhoods from north Santa Rosa to the Sonoma Valley early Monday, as an estimated 10 fires burned destructive paths across the North Coast, driven by strong winds that for hours fueled the fires and forced entire communities to flee in the middle of the night.
