Wildfires near the Georgia-North Carolina line are spewing smoke so thick that residents are being urged to wear special masks if they must do outdoor activities. The fires — many of them suspected arsons — have prompted evacuations in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee in recent days.
Chimaroke Echenwune was found guilty of trying to scam more than $1.3 million from Medicare and Medicaid through an ambulance company he ran with his wife, according to a press release from the Texas attorney general.
Authorities say a man charged in a murder-for-hire plot against a veteran Cleveland firefighter has agreed to 28 years in prison in a deal that requires him to testify against alleged co-conspirators.
A Cincinnati woman who stole her disabled mother’s workers’ compensation benefits to support her drug habit must pay $26,170 in restitution to her mother and the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), a Hamilton County Common Pleas judge ruled.
A wood chipper and an Upstate New York employer’s failure to provide safety training combined to make a 23-year-old worker’s first day on the job his tragic last, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
Shell-shocked, emotionally distraught and displaced from their homes, the victims of Hurricane Matthew have clearly been through more than most of us dare to imagine. However, now their plight is being made all the worse by a series of scam artists bringing a bad name to the insurance industry.
One local Texas state senator wants to put an end to the wide-range of rules in Texas for ridesharing. Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown) filed a bill Monday -- the first day of filing for the 84th Legislative Session -- to create a consistent regulation of services like Uber and Lyft across the state.
Risk Toolbox (Parsippany, N.J.) announced at ACORD 2016 in Boca Raton, Fla., that it has published more than 200 pages of certificate-of-insurance (COI) related information on its website in order to provide a compliance resource for carriers, agents and brokers.
The events of Oct. 21, 2016 have sobering implications for the future of insurance IoT, but that shouldn’t dissuade insurers from preparing to exploit the opportunity.
Monday was quite a busy day for the Gulfport, Mississippi police. The department Tweeted at 3:13 p.m. they had investigated 14 crashes involving over 30 vehicles. An hour later, it was up to 19 and counting.
New Jersey officials are suing a local rabbi, claiming he violated the state’s anti-fraud act by falsely reporting his luggage was stolen from an airport terminal on 23 separate occasions to collect insurance money.
In the United States, tropical storms and hurricanes are the only kinds of storms that get a name. Andrew, Katrina, Ivan, Sandy. Other major storms -- tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and blizzards -- aren’t as special. The recent flooding in Louisiana caused damage on the level of a hurricane, but the storm had no name.
The long awaited La Niña, which was first predicted by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) back in April, has finally arrived in the Pacific Ocean, NOAA announced Thursday -- and it’s expected to stick around through the winter.
Five European insurers and reinsurers have formed an alliance to explore blockchain technology in the industry. Aegon, Allianz, Munich Re, Swiss Re and Zurich announced the Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative, B3i, this week.
A US federal judge in Springfield, Massachusetts, asserted that Bill Cosby’s insurer must help defend him against three civil defamation lawsuits. The suits were brought by several women who accused Cosby of sexual abuse.
