Carlos Solis was driving a familiar route, the few miles from his home to his brother’s apartment outside Houston, on a Sunday in January last year. His cousin sat beside him, and a dog was in the back seat. Just as they turned into the complex, their car, a 2002 Honda Accord, was hit.
A spokeswoman for the Mining Safety and Health Administration says workers are searching for the bodies of two men who were buried in mud and slush at a gravel pit in southern Mississippi.
Two doctors from Mexico pleaded guilty in connection with a conspiracy to commit wire fraud that resulted in nearly $3 million in insurance claim payouts, according to a news release.
The smoke and sirens were déjà vu for the Soomair family. Exactly six years after their transmission shop in New York went up in flames, their new shop off East Colonial Drive in Orlando did the same, records show.
A Union Pacific train towing oil cars derailed and caught fire in the Columbia River Gorge Friday, evacuating schools in the nearby town of Mosier and closing down Interstate 84 between Hood River and The Dalles.
Hundreds of firefighters gained ground Sunday against a wildfire in Los Angeles County that forced at least 5,000 people to evacuate their homes, authorities said. All evacuation orders will be lifted Sunday evening, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said.
A tropical depression threatened Florida and parts of the southeastern United States with severe thunderstorms after being upgraded to Tropical Storm Colin by the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
The rest of the world is beginning to catch up to the progress workers’ comp has made fighting the opioid scourge. Kudos to PBMs, payers, regulators, researchers and some physicians for recognizing the incredibly negative effects of opioids years ago, and taking action to mitigate some of these effects.
The massive hailstorm that struck San Antonio and Bexar County in April will be the costliest in Texas history, according to a state insurance corporation. The total damage caused by the April 12 storm is expected to total $1.36 billion, according to the Insurance Council of Texas.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that gutted a home on Woodplot Road Thursday night, fire officials at the scene said Friday morning. The fire at 6 Woodplot Road destroyed the large home in Loudonville.
As the state Legislature session winds down, the fight to allow ride-hailing companies to operate in New York is focused on setting insurance terms for drivers. Assemblyman John McDonald, D-Cohoes, said Wednesday he thinks the Legislature is close to agreement on the insurance issue but not broader regulation of services like Uber and Lyft.
The basic ideas behind autonomous cars are to tackle issues like urban congestion and passenger safety. When you hand over the driving duties, the autonomous vehicle will maintain a safe distance from the car ahead, keep itself within the lane markings, and brake in case there is a sudden object on the road.
The massive Fort McMurray wildfire is expected to cost the Canadian insurance industry $4.6 billion, according to data from Property Claim Services (PCS), a Verisk Analytics business.
Hail loss claims under personal auto insurance policies from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015 declined by 16.4 percent. This is according to a three-year analysis just released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area of low pressure expected to emerge in the Gulf of Mexico for what could be the Atlantic basins earliest ’C’ storm on record, dating back to 1950.
