Crews from the Tennessee Division of Forestry on Sunday continued to douse hot spots and fight the fires sparking near the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Sevier County.

A week after a tornado ripped through Round Rock, city leaders on Monday released their official estimates on the damage left behind. According to preliminary assessments, more than 680 residential structures were damaged at an estimated cost of $32 million.

People who owned units in a Florida oceanfront condominium building that collapsed last year will divide $83 million for property losses, with the compensation for families over the 98 deaths still to be determined, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.

A recent research paper presents a ‘proof of concept’ for predicting flood damage probabilities - ‘ using only open-source data and machine learning methods - ‘ that the authors say can ‘fill in gaps of unreported or unaccounted flood damage, identify unexpected damage, and rapidly update estimates [of flood damage probabilities] as new information becomes available.’

Claims adjusters and managers recognize that most home and business policies have caps on the amount paid out to deal with mold remediation.

Insurers protecting Florida’s homeowners are going under. And it’s not the state’s infamous storms dragging the firms down -- it’s a deluge of lawsuits and fraud.

Louisiana’s governor declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after tornadoes sliced through the New Orleans area Tuesday night, lifting homes off their foundations, leaving thousands without power and killing at least one person.

The first ever Hurricane Laura case heard by a federal court has ended in a decision against an insurance company and in favor of Joey Odem, the plaintiff who is the owner of a commercial property near Lake Charles’ Petro Point.

Blockchain technology is making inroads in the insurance sector. Used to automate and streamline processes for paying claims, blockchain is being embraced by more and more insurance entities looking for streamlined transactions.

An insurer is not obligated to defend or indemnify a landscaping company for a catastrophic landslide that occurred at homeowners’ properties under a policy exclusion, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in affirming a lower court ruling.

With just two days left in the 2022 Florida legislative session, a comprehensive property insurance reform bill appears to be dead. But lawmakers were said to be looking for ways to fold some of the main provisions into other bills as the clock winds down.

Dr. Ted (Tetsuya) Fujita created a tornado damage scale in 1970 after the Lubbock, Texas tornado. The damage scale was divided into six categories where F0 corresponded with minor damage to houses with estimated winds of 40 - 72 mph (18 – 32 m/s) all the way up to F5 where strong frame houses were swept off their foundations in estimated winds of 261 - 318 mph (117 – 142 m/s).

It’s not clear whether Iowa lawmakers will advance a bill that critics said will make it harder for homeowners to successfully make insurance claims for damage caused by natural disasters like the tornadoes that swept through the state on Saturday.

An EF-4 tornado hit Winterset before continuing on to Norwalk, Pleasant Hill and Newton among other central Iowa communities on Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed.