A huge fire at a marina in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on Friday left several boats and vehicles as burned-out shells and produced a plume of black smoke so thick it was picked up by weather radar.

Wisconsin’s highest court on Wednesday became the third state top court in a row to rule that businesses are not entitled to insurance coverage for losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed restrictions on gatherings.

The former owner of a Peabody construction company was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS of payroll taxes and to defraud his workers’ compensation insurance carrier by failing to disclose how many workers he employed.

When an automobile is damaged in an accident and then repaired, the resale value may be less than a comparable automobile that has not been damaged. In other words, the damage results in a reduction or ‘diminution’ in the resale value of the automobile.

Justices on Massachusetts’ top court on Friday questioned why it should diverge from courts nationally that have found businesses are not entitled to insurance coverage for losses caused by COVID-19 as it heard an appeal by three restaurants.

Pittsburgh is more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the nearest coast, yet its office and retail buildings face $420 million in exposure to flood damage, or the third-greatest of any city in the U.S., according to a report published Monday.

A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has held a hearing on a bill that would limit the amount of time insurance companies have to investigate the cause of a loss, and would require the insurer to make payments for the vehicle while the investigation is ongoing.

Climate change does not stop being a threat to major cities in the United States. Scientists around the world have already warned that if a series of actions are not taken into account to reduce the burning of fossil fuels by the year 2100, the planet will face a sea â€,â€,level rise between 4.3 and 9.9 meters.

An 82-foot boat was destroyed Monday night after a fire broke out on the vessel while it was docked in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

You may recall the story of a Tesla Model X that burned down on the frozen surface of Lake Champlain’s Shelburne Bay in Vermont in February of 2019.

Thousands of people are waking up without power and cleaning up from the damage left behind by Tropical Storm Henri.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is cracking down on unnecessary emergency room visits with a new policy starting July 1 that the American Hospital Association says will jeopardize patients’ health and threaten them with financial penalties.

Part of a multimillion-dollar waterfront mansion near Mattapoisett Harbor is significantly damaged after a fire broke out in the house Tuesday afternoon.

Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.

The owner of a boat repair and storage business won’t get any help from his insurance company to fend off lawsuits from customers whose boats were damaged or destroyed in a fire in 2018.