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.

Businesses and residents throughout the Pittsburgh area spent Thursday cleaning up and assessing the damage from Wednesday night’s extreme flooding.

Heavy rains prompted the National Weather Service to issue flood watches and warnings across the western Pennsylvania area as high waters caused damage from the South Hills to Fayette County and spots in between.

Jay Kittrick came to survey the tornado damage Friday, but he wasn’t looking as intently as usual. An independent insurance adjuster who has been dispatched to natural disasters around the country, he came to the township as a civilian.

Six people suffered minor injuries in storms that ripped through stores and homes in eastern Pennsylvania, authorities said Thursday morning.

A Pennsylvania trucker who struck and killed a motorcyclist while the truck driver allegedly watched a football game on his cellphone was charged with homicide by vehicle, police said.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released its annual report on motorcycle thefts in the United States for 2017.

The late-January fire at the Meadville Public Library was confined to a single room in the building’s basement and was extinguished within about 10 minutes of firefighters being dispatched, according to Meadville Central Fire Chief Evan Hasko.

Twelve states will each see insured damages topping $100 million as the weather system that hit the U.S. from May 11-16 caused a total of $2.5 billion in commercial and residential claims, according to a report Tuesday from Boston-based catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co.

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.

Uber has shut down its self-driving car operation in Arizona two months after a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, the company said on Wednesday.

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 salmonella outbreak that led to a recall of nearly 207 million eggs has now sickened nearly three dozen people in states along the East Coast.

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.