Nationwide Requiring Customers To Mitigate Wildfire Risk Or Lose Coverage
As massive wildfires wreak havoc again in California, Nationwide is trying to limit the damage — both to homeowners and to its bottom line.The Columbus-based insurer does business in California and so far has received more than 300 claims from the latest round of wildfires.
August 22, 2018
Property
Risk Management
California
The Utilities’ Liability For California’s Wildfire Woes
When all the options are bad, choosing the least-bad option won’t make anybody happy. That’s what’s likely to happen with a stack of proposed legislation to deal with liability for the catastrophic wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres across California.
August 20, 2018
Legislation & Regulation
Liability
California
State Farm Has Received Nearly 800 Claims From Carr Fire
State Farm has taken hundreds of insurance claims related to the latest round of California wildfires, but a lot more work is still to come.
August 15, 2018
Property
California
Drone Photos: Aftermath Of A Fire Tornado That Was Strong As An EF-3
Nothing was typical about the way the Carr Fire tore into the city of Redding, California on July 27. Photos released by the city late last week show an aerial perspective of the devastation caused when it launched its deadly assault on the community of about 100,000.
August 14, 2018
Catastrophe
Property
California
146 Homes Destroyed, Sixth Firefighter Killed By Largest Blaze In California History
A firefighter has been killed battling the largest wildfire in Californian history that has been stoked by prime fire weather conditions as it has destroyed dozens of homes.
August 14, 2018
Property
Workers' Compensation
California
Verdict For Plaintiff In First Roundup Cancer Trial: $289 Million
A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.
August 13, 2018
Liability
Litigation
California
Chain-Reaction DUI Crash Causes Six-Car Pileup On California Highway
A six-car crash involving a big rig early Monday morning brought southbound traffic on Highway 99 to a total stop and resulted in one DUI arrest, the California Highway Patrol reported.
August 9, 2018
Auto
Liability
California
First Trial Alleging Monsanto’s Roundup Causes Cancer Goes To Jury
A trial in which a school groundskeeper alleged that his use of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his terminal cancer will go to a California jury after lawyers for both sides delivered their closing arguments on Tuesday.
August 8, 2018
Liability
Litigation
California
Mendocino Complex Fire Rages On, Surpassing State Record For Acres Consumed
California’s biggest wildfire on record raged on Tuesday as hot and windy conditions challenged thousands of fire crews battling eight major blazes burning out of control across the state.
August 7, 2018
Property
California
California’s Fires Are Creating Another Problem: Fleeing Insurers
Residents of U.S. towns damaged by wildfires may need to prepare for another repercussion: insurers that decide to cancel policies because of increased risks from more frequent fires.
August 7, 2018
Catastrophe
Property
California
Irate Claimant Sentenced To Ten Years For Threatening Liberty Mutual Employees
Placer County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Placerville man earlier this year for stalking and threatening three employees of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Last week, a judge sentenced 37-year-old Lloyd Dylan Jones to 10 years in state prison.
August 6, 2018
Weird
California
Small Plane Crash In Santa Ana Kills All Aboard
The CEO of a San Francisco real estate company and four others died when a private plane he was piloting crashed into a a Southern California parking lot, according to the Orange County coroner.
August 6, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
California
Insurtech Launches Usage-Based Drone Coverage
Insurtech company REIN has launched DroneInsurance.com, with underwriting by Liberty Specialty Markets, providing usage-based insurance for commercial drone operators and simplifying the process of obtaining both base and liability coverage.
August 2, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Technology
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Carr Fire Now 6th Most Destructive In California History, More Than 1,000 Homes Gone
The Carr Fire near Redding is now the sixth most destructive blaze in California history, having burned 121,049 acres — nearly 190 square miles — destroyed 1,058 homes and killed at least six people.
August 2, 2018
Property
California
Over 800 Homes Destroyed, 165 Damaged By California Blaze
A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.
July 31, 2018
Property
California
