The commercial transportation industry in North America is "barely keeping up with the loss trends," according to a casualty underwriter at Swiss Re. The market is under "significant pressure" following a 5-10-year period where the frequency and severity of losses shot up and insurance rates lagged behind.

The Missouri Department of Transportation has over 200 trucks plowing highways and roads across the state as of Saturday afternoon.

A La Jolla homeowner is facing millions of dollars in damage to his property after massive amounts of water flooded into his house Tuesday.

The Aviation Safety Network (ASN) released its 2018 accident statistics, marking a notable uptick in fatalities from 2017. ASN recorded a total of 15 fatal commercial airliner accidents (12 passenger and three cargo flights), resulting in 556 fatalities.

More potential victims are joining a class-action lawsuit against a New Jersey surgery center that may have exposed more than 3,000 patients to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Several insurance companies have filed lawsuits blaming Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for a deadly California wildfire that destroyed 14,000 homes and triggered billions of dollars in insurance claims.

Seven people were killed and at least seven injured in a fiery crash on an interstate highway in northern Florida on Thursday, fire officials said.

As we enter the final year of this decade, the list of concerns that will keep risk managers up at night continues to grow.

Freezing rain and snow from Winter Storm Fisher has caused hundreds of accidents in the Southwest and Southern Plains, including a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma and crashes that killed two in New Mexico.

Fifty people died in crashes involving drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol over the extended New Year’s weekend, a jump from 40 deaths reported the same time the previous year, authorities said Wednesday.

Last March, a 103-year-old resident of a Sunrise Senior Living facility in Willowbrook, Illinois, went on a field trip to the movies. Ruth Smith, who used a walker, fell down two concrete steps in the theater and died about six weeks later. Now Smith’s estate is suing Sunrise, saying that aides did not properly watch her.

More than 50 people were part of a pileup involving 32 vehicles — two of them semitrucks — just an hour after ringing in the new year in Austin.

On Monday, New Year’s Eve, a hacker group announced it had breached a law firm handling cases related to the September 11 attacks, and threatened to publicly release a large cache of related internal files unless their ransom demands were met.

AIR Worldwide has estimated that the data breach Marriott recently reported resulted in direct cyber incident losses somewhere between $200 million and $600 million.

In unanimous fashion, a Cobb County jury awarded the Jenkins family millions of dollars on Tuesday during a civil trial in state court.