With the crashes of the housing industry and stock market in 2008, and with interest rates long near zero, many people are looking at alternative options for safe investments. Surprisingly, luxury brands such as Hermès and Chanel have arguably become a safer investment than stock markets.
The unsolved deaths of Nathan Carman’s mother and grandfather are spooking witnesses from an insurance company that’s fighting him in court over his $85,000 claim for the boat that disappeared with his mom.
General Motors is recalling nearly 800,000 trucks that have been found to suddenly lose power steering, potentially causing drivers to lose control of their vehicle.
More than a century of history on the cusp of a comeback is gone, consumed by fire in the dead of night in downtown Windsor. The Historic Windsor Mill, built in 1899 and set for rebirth nine years after being devastated by a large tornado, was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning.
Florida officials condemned two additional homes Sunday as a massive sinkhole in the area continues to grow. Pasco County officials said in a press release Sunday that two additional homes were being condemned.
Your insurance agent may start looking a bit more … robotic in the months and years to come. As we continue to inhabit an increasingly digitized world, a growing number of our interactions will be not with our fellow humans, but with machines.
An uncommon August tornado struck Tulsa early Sunday, damaging buildings, toppling utility poles and injuring around 30 people, authorities said. No deaths were reported when the tornado struck at around 1:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. ET)
Crews battled two large, residential fires in Vancouver on Thursday afternoon as temperatures inched into the triple-digits. Firefighters were sent out to a home near 16th and East Reserve streets just before 5 p.m. The fire spread from a shed to the home, and then to a neighbor’s house.
Aviation has a huge presence in America. The industry supports more than 10.5 million jobs in the US annually and there are almost 40,000 US, private or public airports across the country, catering to more than 2.5 million domestic and international flight passengers every day.
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has found another 315 claims adjusters to deploy after the next major hurricane — hopefully reducing long waits for customers who will be eager to get paid and start making repairs.
Baltimore County fire officials confirm that a 14-year-old girl is dead after a tree fell on her car in Timonium Thursday afternoon. <br />Arriving officers found a tree on top of a Hyundai Sonata with four people inside.
A large house in Stafford was destroyed by an overnight fire and will have to be razed, a fire official said Thursday. No one was injured in the fire, which burned on all three stories of the older house and displaced 11 residents, Fire Chief David Lucia said.
An underground leak of jet fuel in Parkland, Washington, prompted the shutdown of a pipeline owned by U.S. Oil & Refining Co, the state’s environmental agency said.
Of all the dangers that consume risk managers’ thoughts, cybersecurity is arguably the most intangible. It is difficult to truly “see” the many factors that can cause breaches or attacks, which often leaves cyberrisk confined to the realm of hypothetical and worst-case scenarios.
Crews say they were able to save a business from millions in damage after quickly knocking down an early Monday morning fire near the Wye in Missoula County. "Crews were quickly able to force access into the smoke-filled building and located the fire in a utility truck parked inside the bays of the business," the Missoula Rural Fire District said.
