Since the first cars were sold, there have been crashes. And while the insurance claims industry has made enormous advances over the years, the fundamental process of handling a claim has been largely the same for decades ― at least during my time in this industry, which spans nearly 30 years, and includes research and work in claims and the application of "black box" information in the evaluation of liability and injury causation.

Nearly two dozen people were injured Sunday when a shuttle bus rolled over on California 330 in the San Bernardino Mountains, north of the city of Highland.

A section of a bridge collapsed onto an expressway in Oklahoma City Thursday after it was struck by a semi-truck, officials said. Police told Fox 25 a flatbed semi-truck driving on the Northwest Expressway carrying a "boom lift" struck a portion of the May Avenue bridge, causing it to collapse.

The Florida Highway Patrol released a jarring video on Wednesday showing an Ocoee police officer speeding through a red light without stopping or slowing down before slamming into a vehicle at 90 miles an hour.

Authorities say the crash between a car and a garbage truck that killed four family members in Ohio occurred when the car failed to yield from a stop sign and pulled into the truck’s path.

A father and his two children were killed Wednesday when their pickup collided with an Amtrak passenger train in Flora.
Madison County Coroner Alex Breeland said the 35-year-old man and his two children, ages 7 and 1, died instantly of blunt force trauma.

U.S. Motorcycle deaths spiked 10 percent last year, topping 5,000 for the first time since 2008, according to a study done for a highway safety group. The annual study for the Governors Highway Safety Association attributes the increase mainly to increased travel nationwide and better weather leading to a longer riding season in many states.

A U.S. owner of a BMW i3 has filed a lawsuit claiming that the German automaker’s electric vehicle can experience a sudden loss of power when a feature designed to nearly double its driving range is deployed. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court, seeks damages for i3 drivers nationwide and in California alone, or to force BMW to buy the vehicles back.

A dash cam camera in an Anchorage police cruiser caught dramatic video of an officer and four citizens rescuing a man whose arm was trapped under a burning sport utility vehicle.

A federal jury trial started Monday in a case in which one of the nation’s largest insurers is accused of fraud, deceit and acting in bad faith. Charter Oak Fire Insurance, which is owned by Travelers, is accused of failing to disclose the existence of a $1 million insurance policy to the lawyers and victim of an automobile accident.

A Portland jury on Friday awarded more than $1.6 million to an 84-year-old man who slipped in liquid laundry detergent at the Safeway store in St. Helens, breaking his leg and hindering him from living the active life he once had.

A legal battle over insurance claims may be the last thing to attract the attention of football fans still chewing over draft picks and just what Tom Brady did or didn’t do.

Nine of ten businesses experienced at least one hacking incident in the past year, according to a survey of business risk managers released today by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re.

Eight lawsuits have been filed by people seeking damages from an industrial services company that spilled about 12,500 gallons of crude oil last March along and into the Bayou Teche.

Three men were killed Friday when their pickup was struck by a northbound Amtrak passenger train near Avenue 9 in Madera County. The impact of the crash pulverized the truck, splitting it into pieces that were spread hundreds of feet from the point of impact.