40% Of Automobile Accidents Are Work-Related, Costing Employers Billions

Even with an abundance of awareness campaigns, distracted and dangerous driving remains a problem on the roads.
May 3, 2018 Auto Liability Risk Management Technology

Railroad Negligent In Flood, Class-Action Suit Alleges; Case Could Involve Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars

Local residents who suffered property loss during the 2016 flood say they continue to incur damages. And they’re blaming what they call the railroad’s faulty culverts.
May 3, 2018 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Litigation Texas

Fiery LA Freeway Big Rig Crash Injures 3

A fiery crash involving a big rig has injured three people, two critically, and backed up traffic on a Southern California freeway for miles.
May 2, 2018 Auto Excess & Surplus Lines Liability California

Using IoT To Monitor Risk In Real Time

To monitor means to supervise and continually check and critically observe. It means to determine the current status and to assess whether the required or expected performance levels are actually being achieved.
May 2, 2018 Liability Technology

Autonomous Vehicle Start-Up Suggests Insurers Could Control Fleet Risk

The self-driving vehicles of tomorrow could be actively monitored and shaped by insurance companies, suggests an autonomous vehicle start-up spun off from the University of Oxford.
May 2, 2018 Auto Liability Technology

Risk Management: Vehicle Reimbursement Programs

A new report based on US Bureau of Labor statistics has found that most motor vehicle accidents involving company cars occur during the personal time of employee drivers.
May 1, 2018 Auto Liability Risk Management

Simplifying Claims Involving Automated Cars

Canada’s insurers are developing a framework for insuring automated vehicles that is designed for handling auto claims quickly, regardless of whether tort liability arises from human error or a manufacturing defect in the automated vehicle.
April 30, 2018 Auto Legislation & Regulation Liability

Overturned Semi Spills Watermelon Cargo, Causing Fatal Accident

One person died after a big rig carrying watermelons overturned, causing part of its load to strike another vehicle on I-95 in Philadelphia near the Walt Whitman Bridge.
April 30, 2018 Auto Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Pennsylvania

Family Of Woman Who Died After Flight Sues American Airlines For Negligence

The family of a South Carolina woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing American Airlines (AAL.O) of refusing to make an emergency landing after she fell ill during an April 2016 flight, leading to her death from an embolism three days later.
April 30, 2018 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Litigation South Carolina

3 Dead, 3 Hurt In Fiery 2-Vehicle Crash In South LA

Three people were killed and three more critically injured in a two-vehicle crash in South Los Angeles Saturday evening.
The deceased included two children, authorities said.
April 30, 2018 Auto Liability California

5 Injured As Stolen Tractor-Trailer Rams Cars In Colorado

The driver of a stolen tractor-trailer in Colorado deliberately rammed into vehicles and caused numerous injuries before finally being taken into custody by police, who fired on the rig in an effort to stop the rampage, authorities said Sunday.
April 30, 2018 Auto Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Subrogation Colorado

Hog Farm’s Neighbors Awarded $50M After Suing Over Smells, Spraying

Families who live near a hog farm in Bladen County, N.C., have been complaining for decades about bad smells, flies and excessive chemical spraying.
April 27, 2018 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Litigation North Carolina

Dippin’ Dots CEO In DUI Crash That Damaged Two Homes

The CEO of ice cream empire Dippin’ Dots was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly crashed his car into a power line pole and two houses in Oklahoma, police revealed Wednesday.
April 27, 2018 Auto Liability Oklahoma

Kentucky Jury Awards $67.5M To Miners Who Used Defective Dust Masks

A Knott County jury has awarded $67.5 million in damages to two former coal miners who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease.
April 26, 2018 Liability Litigation Kentucky

Driving the Cost Of Auto Injury Insurance: Economic Losses, Attorney Involvement

A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) shows that claimed economic losses for bodily injury liability (BI) insurance claims increased 10 percent annualized from 2012 to 2017, substantially above the medical inflation rate of 3 percent over the same period.
April 25, 2018 Liability Litigation
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