GM Recalling Almost 290K Impalas Over Airbag Issue
Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.
July 22, 2016
Auto
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Recall Of P.F. Chang’s Frozen Meals Expanded
After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If you’ve been stocking up on P.F. Chang’s frozen meals, you might want to double-check they aren’t included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.
July 18, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Crop Adjusters To Assess Hail Damage In Colorado
The nearly daily deluge has continued from June into July, and it’s bringing hail with it. Thursday, July 7, an onslaught of rain and hail poured down in town and southeast of Holyoke.
July 14, 2016
Property
Colorado
Campers Responsible For Wildfire West Of Boulder
Two Alabama men have been arrested for their alleged role in starting the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland. According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, Jimmy Andrew Suggs, 28, and Zackary Ryan Kuykendall, 26, both of Vinemont, Alabama, have been charged with fourth-degree arson.
July 11, 2016
Property
Colorado
Five Killed In Colorado Amtrak-Van Collision
Three children and two adults were killed in Colorado on Sunday when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a minivan in Las Animas County in the southern part of the U.S. state, state police said.
June 27, 2016
Auto
Liability
Colorado
Dozens Of Handguns Stolen During Smash And Grab
Thieves broke into a gun shop early Tuesday morning, smashed glass cases and stole dozens of guns. Now deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office are trying to find those responsible.
June 22, 2016
Property
Colorado
Two L.A.-Area Wildfires Threaten To Merge After Forcing Evacuations
Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart through drought-parched foothills northeast of Los Angeles prompted the evacuation of nearly 800 homes on Tuesday, as a heat wave continued to bake much of the U.S. Southwest for a third straight day.
June 22, 2016
Property
Arizona
California
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Massive Frozen Veggie Recall Involves Nation’s Largest Retailers
Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.
June 21, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado Springs Dog Rescue Facility Set Back By Hail, Rainstorm
As violent rain and hail pounded eastern El Paso County on Monday afternoon, staff members and volunteers at the National Mill Dog Rescue scrambled to make sure the animals were safe.
June 15, 2016
Auto
Property
Colorado
Hail-Related Claims For Vehicles Cost Insurers Billions
The spring and summertime forecast is a familiar one — severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail are on the way. Already in 2016, Texas in particular has been walloped by bigger-than-baseball-size hail that shattered windows, busted roofs and dinged vehicles in March and April.
June 13, 2016
Auto
Arizona
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Conductor Falls To His Death From Royal Gorge Railroad Train
A train conductor fell off a train and died Saturday night at the Royal Gorge Railroad scenic route in Colorado, authorities said. Police identified the victim as Leslie Cacy, 28.
May 31, 2016
Workers' Compensation
Colorado
Frozen Produce Recall Involves Millions Of Packages, 3 Countries
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.
May 20, 2016
Subrogation
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado Ranks Second To Texas For Hail-Related Claims
Angry skies spitting out lightning bolts and icy marbles could soon replace the gray clouds and misty rains that ruled this week along the northern Front Range. "As soon as it warms up, we are headed into our peak storm season," warned Carole Walker, executive director for Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.
May 18, 2016
Auto
Property
Colorado
Texas
Poll Reveals 90% Of Businesses Experienced A Cyber Attack In The Last Year
Nine of ten businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, according to a survey of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re.
May 17, 2016
Liability
Risk Management
Technology
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado Movie Shooting Tragedy Has Not Changed Risk Profile Of Theaters
The wheels are in motion for the first of what could be several civil trials of wrongful death and personal injury claims related to the 2012 mass shooting in a suburban Denver movie theater.
May 12, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Colorado
