Former Chargers tight end Antonio Gates and his wife are suing AIG Property Casualty Co., alleging the insurer breached a contract to compensate them for a nearly $1 million burglary at their Encino home.

Five months after an explosion leveled three rowhomes and killed two people in Baltimore, Fire Chief Niles R. Ford has provided a cause.

One Lake Charles woman credits the power of social media in getting one step closer to having her hurricane-damaged home repaired after weeks of roadblocks with her insurance claim.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has secured $1.153 billion of flood reinsurance for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for 2021, at a premium of $195.8 million.

Given all the challenges of 2020, it would be easy to overlook some of the interesting insurance law developments during the last 12 months. The three legal decisions highlighted below from this past year involve dispute points in insurance law that have recurring importance to policyholders’ risk management, in-house legal and treasury departments.

Federal authorities released the sprawling crime scene of the downtown Nashville bombing to Metro police Wednesday afternoon. The scene is now in the hands of the Metro Nashville Police Department and will be overseen by officers for the foreseeable future, the department said. Some buildings pose a structural danger, MNPD said in a tweet.

An explosion in a high-rise building in Baltimore injured 23 people Wednesday and temporarily trapped a window washing crew on dangling scaffolding.

In American Bankers Ins. Co. of Florida v. National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, __ F.Supp.3d __ (9/21/2020), the Northern District of California of the United States District Court had occasion to consider whether allegations in an underlying complaint triggered a duty to defend and a late notice defense to coverage.

It may be hard to believe, but NFPA’s latest report on Home Structure Fires shows that during the years 2014-2018, five general fire causes accounted for 86% of reported home fires, 95% of home fire deaths, and 83% of home fire injuries.

When an owner seeks the appraisal of a property insurance claim, insurers commonly object by demanding that the trial court must first rule on defenses to coverage before allowing appraisal panel to value the total claim submitted by the owner.

Cleanup started after Wednesday’s tornadoes left a trail of destruction between Pinellas Park and Polk County, with residents and business owners having to continue to assess the damage and all that was lost.

It’s less than two weeks until Christmas, and insurance professionals are looking forward to some downtime following an unprecedented year.

If you live in the western United States, the 2020 wildfire season has probably felt even more intense than the previous record-breaking seasons of 2017 or 2018. The sheer scale of the events this year has broken new records.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) has revealed that the storm that hit southern and central Ontario in November 15, 2020, caused $87 million in insured damage.

There was a massive fire following an explosion in the Town of Gates early Wednesday evening. It happened just after 6:00 p.m. on Noel Dr., near Lyell Rd. and flattened a house there.