The fate of the National Flood Insurance Program is hanging in the balance once again, and local experts are getting fed up with the uncertainty.

There needs to be a hybrid system of self-regulation in concert with regulatory discipline to handle interprovincial mobility issues for independent adjusters, says the president and CEO of an independent adjusting firm.

Millions of dollars in potential losses from the Camp Fire have ruined a small Merced County insurance company, providing another element of uncertainty for homeowners following the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history.

From Florida to New Jersey, a green wave is sweeping the nation as more states seriously consider the prospect of legalizing marijuana.

With flood insurance agencies and policyholders just a few days away from the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program, one local expert says there is little certainty about what’s to come.

Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued an emergency notice Thursday to help expedite claims filed by victims recovering their properties from the California wildfires.

The Colorado Division of Insurance recovered about $38.4 million for Colorado consumers during the last fiscal year.

Nearly three years ago, CLM began the process of creating the Universal Claims Certification (UCC) for states that license claims professionals. The goal was simple: Create one educational standard to rule them all.

Tuesday’s midterm Election Day is filled with fascinating races coast to coast — from the Florida gubernatorial contest to the Texas Senate race, with control of Congress hanging in the balance. Not as many people are paying attention to the expected turnover among state insurance commissioners.

Indemnity payments for injured workers increased as much as 9% from 2007 to 2014 in New York as a result of state reforms launched in 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday signed into law a bill that reinstates controversial impairment ratings in the state after the state’s Supreme Court deemed them unconstitutional in 2017, a change that experts say raised workers compensation loss cost rates by 6.06% mid-year.

Crashes are up by as much as 6 percent in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, compared with neighboring states that haven’t legalized marijuana for recreational use, new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) shows. The findings come as campaigns to decriminalize marijuana gain traction with voters and legislators in the U.S., and Canada begins allowing recreational use of marijuana this month.

EBay has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the US retail giant of using illegal tactics to recruit sellers.
It says Amazon representatives abused eBay’s internal email system to contact sellers - a violation of the marketplace’s policies.

A New Jersey lawmaker on Friday filed a bill that would require workers compensation carriers to pay for medical marijuana.

State Rep. John Carson, R-Marietta, announced Wednesday that traffic fatalities, crashes and related insurance claims are down in Georgia.