The severe thunderstorms that blasted the region midday Wednesday killed at least three people and knocked out power to tens of thousands, officials said.

Michigan drivers are getting a break on auto insurance due to “extreme reductions in driving” during the coronavirus pandemic, state officials announced Monday, June 1.

Four alleged organized criminal organizations that operated as rival tow truck companies involved in a violent battle for territory in the Toronto area have been dismantled, police said Tuesday.

The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of COVID-19, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportunistic thieves.

Residents in central Michigan on Thursday began returning to water-logged homes and assessing the scope of damage left by what Gov. Gretchen Whitmer described as a "500-year" flooding event. The disaster began unfolding on Tuesday after a long period of heavy rain caused rivers to swell beyond anything seen before, which resulted in two dams failing.

Rapidly rising water overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in central Michigan, where the governor said one downtown could be "under approximately 9 feet of water" by Wednesday.

At least one person was killed and several were injured after a possible tornado was reported Sunday night in Louisiana, according to officials. The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Lake Charles had issued a tornado warning until 9:15 p.m. CDT for Acadia Parish for a radar-indicated tornado in the area.

When it comes to so-called “nuclear verdicts”—or “social inflation” in the insurance industry—hindsight is 20/20, as a survey of the highest payouts in motor vehicle accident and premises liability cases across the Southeast U.S. reflects.

Imagine you’re a claims manager for a motor insurer who’s been given 100 potentially fraudulent first notifications of loss to review. The question you’ve been asked is a simple yet stark one: of these 100 cases, how many is the insurance company likely to successfully repudiate and how many will it have to pay?

In today’s world, data is readily available. In an instant, your smartphone can tell you how many steps you’ve walked today, how many hours you’ve spent on Instagram and how many times you took an Uber last month.

U.S. traffic deaths fell in 2019 for the third straight year even as overall road use increased, according to preliminary government data released Tuesday.

Everything has its price. The increasingly healthy diet we are eating presents the foodservice industry with “an array of new foodborne illness threats,” says Restaurant Guard Insurance veep Crystal Jacobs, adding: “Greens like romaine are now one of the nation’s most susceptible foods for carrying the bacteria that cause foodborne illness.”

In order to help their clients, and generally, help the society, auto insurers have begun issuing refunds to auto insurance policyholders in response to dramatic drops in driving as much of the country remains in lockdown.

In the transportation industry, dashcams have been added to fleets of trucks, often paid for or subsidized by insurance carriers looking for an advantage in underwriting, claims, and risk management. Accidents captured on video result in claims that are easier to defend and manage because the footage quickly helps inform the claims manager and attorneys about whether the claim should be denied or promptly resolved.

Five years ago, if someone mentioned “claims virtualization,” it most likely referred to an insurance carrier’s mobile application, or possibly just conjured visions of VR goggles used for high-tech simulations.