When wildfire struck Grand County, Marjorie Cranston and her husband lost their home of 15 years. The loss was hard enough, Cranston said, without spending months scouring her brain to remember every single item lost in the flames.

After having been signed only a handful of days, a New Jersey statute allowing consumers to file lawsuits accusing auto insurance companies of bad faith had already resulted in one major insurer facing two of those suits.

Monday, we wrote about a proposed bill in Utah that would allow firefighters combatting fires in states other than their own to collect workers' compensation benefits if they were injured on the job. Legislators there are running into significant headwinds, in the form of paranoid accusations that they are really establishing paramilitary services to enslave people and violate the rights of citizens.

Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has again banned the use of credit ratings in insurance pricing.

Consumer Watchdog has issued a notice saying that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has retracted its policy to delete agency email databases â€" days after the consumer advocate group warned the regulator that it would threaten legal action over the email disposals.

A California law passed in the late 1980s originally meant to protect consumers is under increased scrutiny for restraining the use of telematics in auto insurance underwriting.

A California city voted Tuesday night to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what's believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States.



The Silicon Valley city of about 1 million followed a trend of other Democratic-led cities that have sought to rein in violence through stricter rules. But while similar laws have been proposed, San Jose is the first city to pass one, according to Brady United, a national nonprofit that advocates against gun violence.

Council members, including several who had lost friends to gun violence, said it was a step toward dealing with gun violence that Councilman Sergio Jimenez called 'a scourge on our society."

Extensive damage resulted from the Kentucky tornado that struck on December 10, 2021. Generally, tornadoes do not produce extensive catastrophe-type responses from the insurance industry because the extent of damage is limited to such a small location

A must-pass bill for Florida's nursing homes, doctors and hospitals cleared the Florida Senate Wednesday by a mostly partisan 22-13 vote.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who has been sworn in for a second term, has signed into law some legislation to allow policyholders to sue their auto insurers for as much as three times the applicable coverage amount.

Dog owners will now face fewer challenges from housing and home insurance companies regardless of the breed of pet they have or want to adopt.

The New Jersey state Legislature passed S-1559 on Jan. 10, 2022, which would allow consumers to bring 'bad-faith' lawsuits against insurers to remove certain recoverable expenses.

With the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously holding that employers and insurance companies must pay for medical marijuana when ordered by the court, and the Minnesota Supreme Court holding that federal law preempts the state's medical marijuana law, companies and claims management professionals are stuck trying to sort out a legal turf war fit for a mafia movie.

Legislation being hailed for allowing faster workers' compensation claims settlements was signed into law last week by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. It changes the requirements regarding the signing of legal paperwork for those workers eligible for a C&R â€" a Compromise and Release settlement.

With towns and cities across the US increasingly deluged by ferocious storms and rising sea levels, a group of disaster survivors has pleaded with the federal government to overhaul a flood insurance system they say is ill-equipped for an era of climate crisis.