NASCAR was hit with a $500 million lawsuit accusing the auto racing body of racial discrimination for preventing black-owned teams and drivers from competing, including in the Sprint Cup Series.
West Virginia remains the state where residents are most likely to submit insurance claims over deer-vehicle collisions, according to an annual analysis by State Farm Insurance.
Steve Morang just couldn’t stand it. After reading my column about the deception committed by both Volkswagen and Wells Fargo WFC +1.56% against their customers, he simply had to reach out by email to register his outrage.
A Texas woman is demanding $50 million for being "literally cooked" when a floor collapsed at a Church’s Chicken restaurant and covered her in boiling fryer grease.
Following years of declines, the percentage of employees in the combined U.S. workforce testing positive for drugs has steadily increased over the last three years to a 10-year high, according to an analysis of nearly 11 million workforce drug test results by Quest Diagnostics.
The California Department of Transportation says a large metal nut that struck and killed a man as he drove on a Northern California freeway may have come from one of its trucks.
When fires devastated luxury homes in Fairfield and Westchester counties, a Chubb Corp. insurance adjuster was there to assess damages and start the restoration process. But Chubb did not know that its own adjuster was colluding with a contractor he hired to estimate repair costs.
Sunday morning, residents of the quaint little town of Pescadero, just off Highway 1, south of Half Moon Bay, stared in shock at what was left of a local landmark — the Pescadero Country Store.
Four people, including an 8-year-old boy, died and 42 were taken to the hospital Saturday when a charter bus carrying a football team from Ramah Juco Academy of Rock Hill crashed.
China-based internet company Baidu has received a permit to test its self-driving cars in California from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, as the race to introduce driverless automobiles accelerates.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Thursday it is recalling 1.9 million vehicles worldwide for an air bag defect that is linked to three deaths and five injuries.
A fast-moving fire that displaced about 40 residents near Ansley Mall started when a cigarette wasn’t properly disposed, an Atlanta fire spokesman said. The overnight blaze that damaged about five apartments and took about 50 firefighters to extinguish was ruled accidental Thursday, Atlanta fire Sgt. Cortez Stafford said.
Craig Stewart, vice-president of federal affairs at the Insurance Bureau of Canada, says the industry sees severe weather as a top priority nationally. “There are clear trends towards a warming atmosphere that have resulted in more significant losses from flooding… and as we’ve seen recently, wildfire,” he said.
There are several different ways to categorize the emerging technologies that are impacting the insurance industry, according to SMA partner Mark Breading.
