Former American Family and GEICO adjusters on Monday described their carriers as focused on cost and indifferent to safety in comments to Washington state lawmakers.

Last November the residents of California told the state, by a fairly substantial margin, to keep their labor employment law mittens off of rideshare gig workers. Proposition 22, designed to 'define app-based transportation (rideshare) and delivery drivers as independent contractors and adopt labor and wage policies specific to app-based drivers and companies,' passed with a 58.6% to 41.4% vote.

Amid problems in Florida's property-insurance market, a Senate committee Tuesday backed a controversial proposal that could lead to many policyholders picking up more of the tab for roof damage, and limit attorney fees in insurance disputes.

After hundreds of complaints about insurance providers to the Louisiana Department of Insurance mostly related to hurricane season damages, the state recovered more than $22 million for policy holders in 2020.

In 2021, the increasing effects of climate change and the response from U.S. insurance regulators will create both challenges and opportunities for insurers.

A recent study by the Geneva Association on the topic of 'social inflation' addresses the challenges of defining and quantifying the phenomenon. More important, it takes on the question of what insurers and reinsurers can actually do about it.

On January 20, in a historic inauguration ceremony surrounded by U.S. soldiers guarding against domestic terrorism - before a field of 200,000 illuminated flags representing Americans who could not attend the ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic - President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office.

Florida’s Insurance Commissioner says claims solicitation is raising the cost of Florida’s property insurance industry for both consumer and provider. David Altmier told a Senate panel Tuesday that rates for property owners will continue to rise unless something is done.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is currently working on a new model pet insurance regulatory standards law.

Lawsuit reforms supporters say will lower auto insurance rates went into effect Friday for the new year. The compromise reforms were agreed to by the Governor and Legislature last year.

If you live in the western United States, the 2020 wildfire season has probably felt even more intense than the previous record-breaking seasons of 2017 or 2018. The sheer scale of the events this year has broken new records.

There are a few things we may never see again thanks to COVID-19. Free samples at the grocery store, infrequent cleaning of subway cars, cramped conference rooms, packed elevators, communal office pies and cakes, stigma around sick days and working from home, plastic ball pits for toddlers, buffet restaurants, paper menus, shaking (too many) hands and unpackaged dinner mints (okay, maybe those aren't a thing any more), to name a few.

There has been a marked increase in public announcements from regulators in recent months, both in the United States and internationally, relating to climate change and about embedding consideration of climate change-related risks into regulation of financial institutions.

When Helen Witty's 16-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk and drugged driver, in her grief she found some comfort in a single word: crash. While most of those around her were referring to her daughter's death as an accident, Witty says that one word-crash-helped her change her perception and heal.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every fiber of the world economy. As businesses have had to adjust how they transact with patrons in an effort to curb the spread of the novel virus, on-demand delivery drivers - classified as essential workers - have emerged unsung heroes.