Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term "accident." It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A "crash" killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on her way to pick up cat food.

One person died and several others were injured Saturday night in a fatal crash east of Mitchell that involved both vehicles and livestock.

After a train derailed in North Knoxville over the weekend, crews are laying down a new railroad track. A Norfolk Southern train derailed near Inskip Drive on Saturday night around 10 p.m., spilling shipping containers and damaging buildings.

A 2-year-old boy in California is reportedly the eighth child to be killed by an Ikea dresser that was recalled in June 2016. The family’s lawyer told ABC News that the boy, Jozef Dudek, died in May when the three-drawer dresser tipped over during his naptime.

When the feds started scrutinizing two men accused of running a massive $23 million auto insurance fraud at chiropractic clinics in South Florida, their defense attorneys say investigators had a theory the ringleaders were part of the Russian mob.

Hyatt Hotels Corp (H.N) said on Thursday it had discovered unauthorized access to payment card information at certain Hyatt-managed locations worldwide between March 18, 2017 and July 2, 2017.

Three people were killed and four seriously injured when a car struck a bear and slid off a Colorado highway early Friday morning. According to the Colorado State Patrol, all seven people were ejected from the 2007 Chevrolet SUV.

The Canadian auto industry overall is seeing no reduction in car accidents and “big cost pressures upward on severity coming from both injuries and the repairs of cars themselves,” a speaker suggested last week at the National Insurance Conference of Canada (NICC).

If at first you don’t succeed at getting a truck to rear-end you, do it yourself. That’s what investigators say a Delray Beach man did after slamming his brakes in an effort to have a crash with the tow truck behind him so he could collect insurance money.

A lawsuit seeking to represent the victims of the Las Vegas rampage, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, was filed against the makers of so-called bump stocks, which the shooter used to achieve a near-automatic rate of fire.

Adam Loos tried to raise his hand but he couldn’t beat the speed of a foul ball that smacked his 60-year-old father in the face and left the man blind in one eye after a late-August Cubs game at Wrigley Field.

The U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just published data as of August 2017 on detailed insurance industry employment, and the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) website contains updated multi-decade trend data in chart form.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that the number of traffic fatalities in 2016 rose nearly 6% compared with the previous year to 37,461.

Property Claim Services (PCS) reported on Thursday that it will publish aggregate flood loss information supplied by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), beginning with Hurricane Harvey.

A 55-year-old Clarksburg man has been sentenced to 92 months in federal prison as the organizer of an insurance fraud ring that caused almost $1 million in losses.