An explosion Saturday at a hazardous waste site in southwestern Idaho killed one worker, injured three others and heavily damaged a building, officials said. US Ecology, which runs the site, said Monte “Alex” Green of Grand View, Idaho, died of his injuries from the explosion at 9:23 a.m. inside one of the buildings at the facility.

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.

For the first time, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending all new school buses be equipped with lap and shoulder seat belts, after the agency released findings from a special investigation report prompted by two deadly 2016 crashes.

At its core, the industry is plagued by an inherent conflict of interest. Our customers don’t have an industry expert advocating solely on their behalf; the experts have financial incentives coming from the insurance industry.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a study on the number of animal-related insurance losses for the years 2014—2017. The data is gleaned from insurance claims for losses that occurred in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

Some homeowners in Bonneville County are dealing with severe damage following yesterday’s hail storm. People were frightened.

An Oregon developer serving a 10-year prison term in a mortgage-fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four more years because he ordered his teenage son to shoot him in the legs in a failed effort to collect on a disability insurance policy.

The United States of America is currently enjoying strong economic momentum. Spending in the construction industry hit record highs towards the end of 2017, alongside positive gains in the manufacturing industry, according to data from The Institute for Supply Management (ISM).

A local family got more than they bargained for when a giant hole opened up in the floor of their garage. Early Tuesday morning around 4 a.m. Brittany Bush and her husband woke up to loud noise.

A homeowner says she was surprised to discover that a man she thought was renting her house, with plans to buy it, had demolished it instead.

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.

At least a dozen students were hospitalized after their school bus rolled over on a rural Idaho highway, police said. The driver, 67-year-old Richard Mecham, drove off the right shoulder, overcorrected and rolled the 2011 school bus Tuesday, according to Idaho State Police.

An Idaho motorist told the local sheriff’s department that a Bigfoot sighting caused her to crash her car last Wednesday night.

A former longtime deputy and K-9 trainer for the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office, Clint Brown, will be sentenced Monday in the Bannock County Courthouse after pleading guilty to insurance fraud.