A Minnesota snowstorm turned highways and roads into a slippery destruction derby in which at least 261 vehicle crashes were reported in an 18-hour period, authorities said.

A late-season wildfire pushed by strong winds ripped through a tiny central Montana farming town overnight, burning several homes and grain elevators that had stood for more than a century, authorities said.

For as much coverage and discussion as telematics has received over the past two decades, its impact on the auto insurance economy, including transportation, is going to be even greater and further reaching than many may have thought – it will be transformative in the fullest sense of the word.

A 4-year-old child and a 55-year-old woman have died after a house fire and explosion in Flint, Michigan, on Monday night, authorities said.

While the traditional view of claims is that it sits towards the back of the value chain, that is changing, a speaker said Wednesday during KPMG’s 30th annual insurance conference. The evolving role of claims was one of four macro (or high-level) trends discussed during the Reimagining Operations session at the virtual conference.

Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada’s largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.

Just a bit more than a year ago, a driver made a phone call to their insurance company — and made history. How? Well, the insurance claim that followed was the first-ever completely touchless claim — in that it was entirely carried out by a trained artificial intelligence (AI).

Emergency officials in Whatcom County called it the worst flooding since 1990, and more is still to come.

Rescue efforts by helicopter are lifting hundreds of people to safety after they were trapped along a southern B.C. highway from landslides caused by extreme weather.

A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has held a hearing on a bill that would limit the amount of time insurance companies have to investigate the cause of a loss, and would require the insurer to make payments for the vehicle while the investigation is ongoing.

CCC Intelligent Solutions has launched a photo-based estimating service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and ‘insurer-driven’ rules to generate what it calls ‘detailed and actionable’ line-level repair estimates in a matter of seconds.

Lemonade has finally launched its auto insurance product, called Lemonade Car. The new Lemonade Car product is initially available in Illinois, with plans to launch in Tennessee next.

Tesla Inc. is recalling nearly 12,000 U.S. vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of the automatic emergency braking system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday.

The nationwide surge in used vehicle prices has given an unexpected boost to auto insurance customers who experience a total loss---their vehicles might be worth more than they thought.

The MCCA, a nonprofit corporation with a board controlled by the insurance industry that manages a fund that pays for catastrophic care, should issue the refunds, Whitmer said. The fund, which has assets of more than $27 billion, gets its money from surcharges paid by insured motorists.