The claim costs and other metrics of 18 state workers’ compensation systems are analyzed in depth in a new series of studies, CompScope™ Benchmarks, 17th Edition, released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

The former general manager of a golf club and a contractor have been arrested and charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, which led to the club’s demise.

During the height of the Soberanes Fire last September in Central California, the United States Forest Service estimated it was costing about $8 million per day to fight the wildfire.

Solar energy is taking over the energy space in the United States, and that’s good news for the environment — and for insurers.

Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31, were arrested yesterday by California Department of Insurance (CDI) detectives on multiple felony charges of insurance fraud after allegedly submitting a fraudulent claim and filing a false police report in an attempt to bilk their insurer out of $18,000 for damages not covered by their insurer.

A fire that broke out in Pacific Palisades Thursday morning killed a family pet and injured five people, including a husband and wife who were in critical condition, according to a fire official.

A driver is uninjured after crashing a car through a fence and into the deep end of a swimming pool early Tuesday morning in Santa Clara, according to Santa Clara Fire Department.

An SUV crashed into a crowd of pedestrians Sunday at a church parking lot in California, killing two women, authorities said.

Three Georgia firefighters were injured, one of them fatally, when the vehicle in which they were traveling was struck by a suspected DUI driver Monday evening in Venice, authorities have confirmed.

The widow of an administrative judge has already received $150,000 in workers’ compensation death benefits and is suing the state of California, alleging an order requiring her husband to drive long distances to work caused his fatal heart attack.

Once more, attorney Christopher Asvar has set the record for the highest known workers’ compensation settlement or award in the nation.

Firefighters and construction workers frantically shoveled at a construction site where a man was trapped in a confined space Monday, authorities said. Two men were digging footings next to the wall when it collapsed, fire officials said.

Firefighters battled a massive gas-fed inferno Monday night at a commercial food processing plant in South Los Angeles, and officials said explosions were heard from inside the burning building.

A north Torrance man has won more than $1.3 million from an insurance company that declined to fully cover a claim of about $134,000 in property damage caused when burglars broke into his home, then flooded part of it when they filled the bathtub and left the taps on before fleeing.