A fire burning in a mobile home park in the Delta town of Isleton destroyed 30 structures and threatens 20 more but is expected to be contained by Tuesday’s end, according to the River Delta Fire Protection District.

A twin-engine plane that killed at least two people and left a swath of destruction in a San Diego suburb nose-dived into the ground after repeated warnings that it was flying dangerously low, according to a recording.

As a massive investment to repair roads and adapt to climate change faces an uncertain fate in Congress, a new report finds much of the country’s infrastructure is already at risk of being shut down by flooding.

With 95% of its employees working remotely during the pandemic, insurance giant Allstate is selling its longtime Northbrook, Ill. headquarters.

What makes a consumer choose a particular insurance product? The scope of the policy will certainly be important; the price, the recognizability of the brand and its perceived reputation will be factors, too.

Days of torrential rainfall triggered widespread flooding across the Southeast, leaving at least four dead in Alabama, officials said, which has been hit particularly hard by the stormy pattern.

Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, near Port Fourchon, Louisiana as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of near 150 miles per hour. High winds, wind damage, storm-surge flooding, and flash floods occurred in many areas.

A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire.

A Houston businessman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in restitution – nearly five times the money he collected in an insurance fraud scheme.

On September 27, 2021, Judge Jose Martinez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted summary judgment in favor of Scottsdale Insurance Company in LMP Holdings Inc. v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., case no. 20-24099. The case arose out of a Hurricane Irma claim reported more than two years after the storm.

Insurance adjusters in many cases are nearing the half-way point of the 60-day period when they must make initial contact with policy holders who have filed claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

New Orleans residents who are facing daunting homeowners insurance deductibles that could keep them from repairing damage Hurricane Ida caused to their homes can apply for assistance through an unprecedented program the city is launching to keep people from being displaced by the storm.

Crawford & Company, the world’s largest publicly listed independent provider of claims management and outsourcing services to carriers, brokers and corporations, has announced that Marie Velez, vice president of finance at Crawford & Company in Latin America, has been named Woman of the Year at the Stevie International Business Awards.

After being pummeled by two tropical storms that submerged basements, cracked home foundations and destroyed belongings, Northeastern U.S. residents still in the throes of recovery are being hit with another unexpected blow: Thousands of families are now swamped with financial losses because they didn’t have flood insurance.

Most of those caught off guard by the intense downpours from the remnants of Hurricane Ida and Tropical Storm Henri lived in areas outside of coastal floodplains, making flood insurance an afterthought for most of the working-class families whose neighborhoods were among the hardest hit.

"When we called the insurance company, the first thing they told us is that they don’t provide any assistance for anything that’s caused by a storm. And they left it at that," Amit Shivprasad said, his rising voice echoing frustrations shared among his neighbors in the Jamaica section of Queens.

The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently held that an insurer’s reliance on the report of an independent consultant creates a presumption that it did not act in bad faith in denying coverage.