In 2015, there were more than 6.3 million car accidents reported that involved property damage with insurance fraud accounting for 10 percent of property/casualty claims processed. While not every accident resulted in an insurance claim, those that did required extensive effort to be verified manually.

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.

Two men injured in the 2014 KOMO helicopter crash obtained a $40 million settlement yesterday. The settlement was reached during a trial spread over the course of five weeks.

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.

An Oregon horse named Justice is — at least, on paper — suing his former owner for $100,000 in damages.

A car lot fire at Northeast 75th Avenue and Northeast Killingsworth Street grew to five alarms Monday and sent thick dark smoke billowing through the metro area.

Multiple people were injured in a 20-vehicle crash Saturday night on Interstate 84 that closed the westbound lanes for more than 12 hours.

An Oregon developer serving a 10-year prison term in a mortgage-fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four more years because he ordered his teenage son to shoot him in the legs in a failed effort to collect on a disability insurance policy.

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Gulf of Alaska early on Tuesday, prompting warnings of a possible tsunami down the West Coast of North America.

A truck hauling dirt down a steep portion of Southwest Upper Hall Street Wednesday morning left the road and tumbled down an embankment, coming to rest in a swimming pool and prompting a dramatic rescue of the driver, an official said.

The lead singer of the rock band Modest Mouse — who once sang in a hit song that “I backed my car into a cop car the other day” — was sued Wednesday for crashing into a pickup truck in August 2016.

Law enforcement agencies broke up a decade-old theft ring that stretched from California to Frederick, Maryland. The thieves used what’s called booster bags, shopping bags with liners to block anti-theft devices.

Flooding and wildfires are making massive headlines this summer and this extreme weather risk is placing considerable pressure on the property insurance industry.