It can happen to anyone: Someone knocks on your door and says they’re a repairman or an insurance expert and can fix damage to your home at no cost to you. They might say they can get you a new roof. Or a new kitchen.

Your insurance company will get the bill, they’ll say, and you won’t be out a penny.

Watch out. You’re about to be sucked into a thriving insurance scam that’s enriching a handful of law firms, threatening the financial stability of Florida’s home insurance industry and driving up annual premiums for millions of homeowners who have never filed a claim.

A newly filed complaint against one of the state’s most notorious insurance attorneys lays out the alleged scheme.

After you agree to accept their help, your visitor will hand you their tablet or cellphone and ask for your signature, saying it’s needed to hire their company. You’ll sign it without scrolling up.

Driven by Santa Ana winds, a house fire in California’s Orange County spread to nearby brush and exploded to more than 5.5 square miles overnight.
Officials ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of Modjeska, Silverado and Williams canyons and for Foothill Ranch and parts of Portola Hills.

Six people were missing in Haines, Alaska, on Wednesday after record rains triggered landslides that destroyed four homes in the mountainous southeast, state troopers said.

A tornado hit the Arlington area Tuesday night as a line of thunderstorms pounded North Texas, leaving damage in Arlington and Grand Prairie, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth and local authorities.

As climate change contributes to ever-worsening fire seasons in the Western U.S., more people are moving to the very areas most likely to burn.

The United States is no stranger to periods of often intense civil unrest. From the 1907 “Bellingham Riots” to the fractious tumult of the civil rights and Vietnam era, U.S. history is littered with bouts of violent upheaval.

A fast-moving wildfire driven by gusting winds destroyed several homes in Reno, Nev., and forced hundreds to evacuate on Tuesday, prompting Gov. Steve Sisolak to declare a state of emergency.

The UK High Court of Justice found business-interruption coverage applies to COVID-19-related losses. Will the ripples be felt in the U.S.?

A $429,000 commercial property coverage dispute involving overflow from a body of water could reach Canada’s top court.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of west-central Nevada early Friday, but was felt widely from Las Vegas to Sacramento, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tropical Storm Eta, which was once a devastating hurricane, is dumping heavy rain on the Carolinas and Virginia. Homes and roads are flooded and bridges have buckled, at least four people are dead and while dozens have been rescued, several remained unaccounted for.

Residents of Florida’s central Gulf Coast woke up Thursday to inundated streets and flooded homes after a night of pounding rain and wind from Tropical Storm Eta.

Portions of Florida’s Gulf Coast are beginning to feel effects from Hurricane Eta’s outer bands as the Category 1 storm makes its approach toward Florida’s west coast, with winds at 75 mph and the potential for “life-threatening storm surge," forecasters said.

State officials released a report with preliminary insurance claim totals for Iowa from the August 10 derecho which gave some sense of the enormous extent of the damage caused by the storm.

As property insurers embrace remote work in response to the coronavirus pandemic and deal with an overactive Atlantic hurricane season—and the volumes of claims accompanying it—they may elect to look closer at a new trend: on-demand claims adjusting services.