Wells Fargo has been slapped with a $1 billion fine for its unfair insurance practices. Thousands of the bank’s vehicle loan customers were sold additional unnecessary auto insurance policies.

The property-and-casualty insurance industry is making a last-minute bid to derail or significantly alter two pieces of legislation that would bring relief to fire victims who lost their homes in October, bill supporters said Tuesday.

A bill filed last week could potentially prevent insurance companies from charging customers based on their educational background and/or income. Specifically, the bill - sponsored by a New Jersey congresswoman - would prohibit certain income information from being used to set insurance rates.

Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay. The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush, but San Francisco now has a new beacon: Salesforce Tower, the tallest office building in the West.

A Louisiana House committee narrowly defeated Monday legislation that opponents called the Texas Brine Bail Out Act.

Four Minnesota senators have introduced a bill that would ban self-driving cars from state highways and roads unless the automated driving systems are disabled and humans perform all the driving tasks.

A bill on Gov. Eric Greitens’ desk would limit how much money insurance companies would have to pay after accidents.

When Twin Cities TV reporter Courtney Godfrey lost part of her leg in a boating accident over the summer, she assumed the boat owner’s insurance policy would help. But she quickly learned the boat’s liability policy excluded her.

A fully autonomous vehicle could generate as much data as the equivalent of every movie ever made … on a daily basis.
"The amount of data being generated in these vehicles is just mind boggling," said Tom Karol, general counsel - federal, The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC).

Advocates who have been pushing for renewal of the U.S. federal flood insurance programs in the wake of last year’s devastating hurricanes and floods praised Congress for extending the program through July 31.

A bill that would change the personal injury protection coverage required in all Kentucky automobile insurance policies has passed the state Senate.

A room full of industry lobbyists and Florida’s insurance commissioner converged to defend the state’s no-fault car insurance system against a repeal effort in the state Senate, leaving the state among a few keeping a no-fault plan and its drivers paying among the top six average U.S. premiums.

U.S. pedestrian deaths totaled nearly 6,000 in 2017 for the second straight year amid mounting signs that walkers and drivers are dangerously distracted, according to a new study.

"That largely explains it," Insurance Institute of Indiana and State Farm lobbyist Jon Zarich told a state House committee Feb. 21 in presenting an amendment at least one of them hadn’t seen. But his summary of the amended Senate Bill 164 omitted any mention that the proposed language would effectively strip away auto insurance policyholders’ right to assign insurance benefits to body shops.

Tractor trailer safety standards are under the microscope after a massive pileup on the Thruway left an Elba man dead in January. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is calling for trucks to be equipped with "underride guards" to help protect drivers and passengers on roads.