If the weather system meandering through the Southeast develops, it will become Tropical Storm Fay, the sixth named system of the Atlantic hurricane season.

The first hint of the trouble to come popped up on radar at noon Monday — an unexceptional patch of light rain over an area from Clifton Heights to Glenolden, Delaware County.

Dozens of fires were started on Fourth of July in the Sacramento area, some caused by the obligatory fireworks that celebrate the nation’s independence and others from less explosive sources.

Every year we gather ’round for fireworks and fun, but did you know the 4th of July is considered one of the most dangerous holidays in the United States?

The property insurance industry has been steadfast in its position that COVID-19 does not constitute a “risk of direct physical loss,” the coverage trigger for business interruption (BII) coverage under the Insurance Services Office (ISO) “Special Causes of Loss” property form.

A wind-driven wildfire destroyed homes and forced evacuations as it tore through a rural Southern California desert town near the Salton Sea, authorities said Monday. The fire erupted Sunday evening in Niland, a small and poor agricultural community about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from San Diego.

Claims technology plays a vital role in effectively adjusting commercial property losses. Today, remote inspection and estimation capabilities are more important than ever, given the social distancing requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of accessing policyholders’ facilities in the wake of severe weather events and large-scale natural catastrophes.

Think the risk of your home filling up with floodwater, magnified these days by climate change, is only an issue near the coasts and rivers? New research detailing nearly every corner of the U.S. shows otherwise.

A Houston law firm and its landlord sued the firm’s insurance company in Connecticut, alleging the insurer improperly denied the firm’s claim for business income losses caused by government shutdown orders for COVID-19.

A candle is to blame for a fire that took the life of a woman in a downtown Fremont apartment last month. Numerous tenants have been displaced and three businesses severely damaged, but frustrated owners of one store said they were kept from cleaning up for far too long.

Robert Klein has spent more than a decade building his dental practice. He has four offices stretching from Kearney to Kansas City. He’s never closed his doors until this past spring when non-essential businesses were asked to shut down because of COVID-19.

The father of a 5-year-old boy who drowned at the Houston home of former MLB player Carl Crawford is suing the one-time pro athlete for $1 million.

In the first six months of 2020, Tennesseans received more than twice the money as a result of complaints about denied insurance claims than they did in the first six months of 2019.

Friday’s hail storm in Potter and Randall Counties was declared a catastrophic event, meaning over 500 insurance claims were made in each county. The Insurance Council of Texas is projecting around 2,800 auto claims and around 1,600 homeowners claims in Amarillo from the first round of hail storms in Amarillo.

If you have clients in the Calgary area who suffered property damage in the June 13 hail storm, they could be waiting a while to get their properties repaired, an executive for one independent adjusting firm suggests.




Some Calgary neighbourhoods were hit the evening of June 13 with hail the size of tennis balls, the CP reported earlier.

The photos of the damage are “pretty startling,” Crawford Canada chief client officer Greg Smith told Canadian Underwriter Thursday. “You can’t believe that damage was caused by hail when you look at it.”

Quite often in a thunderstorm, hail drops due to gravity, said Glenn McGillivray, managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.

“In this case we had dow