Harris County Fire Marshal’s officials are investigating an overnight fire at the ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery that left four people injured.

The insurer of the tractor-trailer truck whose driver, according to state police, caused a 59-vehicle pileup on Interstate 80 in December 2019 wants all claims from the crash resolved in federal court.

The cyber landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation since the onset of the pandemic. Industries large and small are caught in the crosshairs of increasingly sophisticated attacks. Continued work from home has only increased what’s at stake for all businesses.

The aftermath of a motor carrier accident can be a harrowing experience. It is common knowledge that photos; witness statements; alcohol and drug testing; electronic logs; and electronic control module (ECM) data must be collected and preserved amid this chaotic scene.

In his 2015 stand-up special The Comeback Kid, stand-up comedian John Mulaney joked that the government had ‘[become] like cool parents’ when it came to marijuana. It’s a claim many an onlooker would agree with.

Applying Illinois law, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that a D&O policy’s professional services and contract exclusions do not bar coverage for lawsuits seeking damages for fees and expenses paid to the insured in connection with a cancelled trade show.

A new report by renewable energy underwriter GCube Insurance argues that corrective action is needed within the offshore wind sector to incentivise quality control processes and accountability for financial losses.

A $7.6 million event cancellation insurance payout due to the COVID-19 pandemic helped offset the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.’s loss of revenue in 2020.

Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Cyber criminals continue to exploit lax security measures, which have become more acute in the work-from-home environment, and hack into companies’ systems, encrypt their data, and then demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.

With the continuing pandemic, insurance market conditions are ripe for a surge in agent/broker errors and omissions (E&O) claims.

Amid rising losses and increasing claims on cyber insurance, companies that provide insurance against online hackers are facing growing risks, says Fitch Ratings.

A twin-engine plane that killed at least two people and left a swath of destruction in a San Diego suburb nose-dived into the ground after repeated warnings that it was flying dangerously low, according to a recording.

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against the companies who run the oil line that dumped hundreds of thousands of crude oil off the coast of California over the weekend.

Federal investigators are seeking the cause of an Amtrak train derailment near a switch on tracks in the middle of vast farmland in far northern Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized over the weekend.

Crawford & Company, the world’s largest publicly listed independent provider of claims management and outsourcing services to carriers, brokers and corporations, has announced that Marie Velez, vice president of finance at Crawford & Company in Latin America, has been named Woman of the Year at the Stevie International Business Awards.