The National Weather Service confirmed Saturday that a tornado caused major damage in parts of Massachusetts and resulted in a report of an injury.

The prospect of a hurricane tearing up the East Coast through Long Island and Connecticut, hitting Cape Cod and heading up to Maine "is an event that keeps insurance people awake at night," according to Robert DeSaulniers, a flood insurance specialist for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s northeast region.

Insurtech company REIN has launched DroneInsurance.com, with underwriting by Liberty Specialty Markets, providing usage-based insurance for commercial drone operators and simplifying the process of obtaining both base and liability coverage.

A National Weather Service team will work to determine storm damage in Upton early Thursday morning was caused by a tornado. No injuries have been reported following the storm, which brought down several trees and some power lines.

Lightning strikes sparked house fires in several Massachusetts communities on Friday afternoon as storms rolled through the region.

For the first time, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending all new school buses be equipped with lap and shoulder seat belts, after the agency released findings from a special investigation report prompted by two deadly 2016 crashes.

At its core, the industry is plagued by an inherent conflict of interest. Our customers don’t have an industry expert advocating solely on their behalf; the experts have financial incentives coming from the insurance industry.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a study on the number of animal-related insurance losses for the years 2014—2017. The data is gleaned from insurance claims for losses that occurred in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

A beachside house on a private road near Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester was completely destroyed by an intense two-alarm fire that broke out Saturday night, injuring a firefighter and igniting surrounding trees and grass, authorities said.

More than 90,000 customers were without power overnight after another major nor’easter — the fourth in three weeks — pummeled the Interstate 95 corridor with as much as 19 inches of snow on the first full day of spring.

Tens of thousands of utility workers in the Northeast raced to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses just days after a powerful and deadly nor’easter caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine.

Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.

An MBTA trolley operator was indicted on charges that he hired an acquaintance to attack him on the job so he could fraudulently collect workers’ compensation.

Foxborough police sent officers to New England Patriots’ star Rob Gronkowski’s home Monday night to investigate a break-in that may have led to the theft of "multiple safes and possible guns taken," according to a recording of a police dispatcher.