Authorities in Colorado were searching for more answers Monday as they investigated what caused the destructive fire that torched scores of homes and displaced residents in the suburbs of Denver last week.

Homeowners insurance premium rates are rising faster than inflation, S&P Global Market Intelligence data shows, and Triple-I’s chief insurance officer says they’re likely to keep climbing.

Nearly 60 lawsuits against Society Insurance suffered a fatal blow this month when a federal appeals court tossed pandemic-related claims for business-income interruption benefits against four other insurance companies, Society’s lawyers at Crowell & Moring and Purcell & Wardrope said in a Monday-night filing in federal court in Chicago.

Devastation from tornadoes that slammed parts of the United States this month will push the insurance industry’s 2021 bill for weather-related claims well above the predicted $105 billion, industry experts said, and premiums should rise on worries that climate change will drive more severe weather.

The National Weather Service says the tornado that caused major damage in the southern Minnesota community of Hartland on Wednesday night was an EF-2, with estimated peak wind speeds of 115 mph.

Officials say multiple homes and structures were destroyed by wildfires that scorched part of central Kansas.

Pittsburgh is more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the nearest coast, yet its office and retail buildings face $420 million in exposure to flood damage, or the third-greatest of any city in the U.S., according to a report published Monday.

A Montgomery County, Md. homeowner got more than they bargained for after attempting to smoke out some unwanted pests from their home.

It’s official — the massive flooding in southern British Columbia is the costliest severe weather event in the province’s history.

One of the deadly tornadoes that erupted under the cloak of darkness overnight Friday into the early hours of Saturday, leaving at least 70 dead, may have set the record for the longest continuous tornado in American history.

A new study by broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has found that expanding and improving the use of advanced analytics in several aspects of operations remains high on North American property & casualty (P&C) insurers’ strategies.

In urban environments, heavy construction is conducted in close proximity to neighboring buildings and other structures. In such environments, construction-induced vibrations are one of the most commonly claimed causes of adjacent building damage.

A late-season wildfire pushed by strong winds ripped through a tiny central Montana farming town overnight, burning several homes and grain elevators that had stood for more than a century, authorities said.

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The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Tuesday, going down in history as the first time that two consecutive seasons have exhausted the list of 21 English storm names.