It took San Jose and mutual aid firefighters more than six hours to get a San Jose Home Depot fire under control just before midnight on Sunday -- at its peak 110 crews were battling the 5-alarm blaze.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-run 'insurer of last resort,' is proposing an across-the-board rate hike of nearly 11%, the highest increase allowed by law. The request comes as Florida's private property insurance market sinks deeper into turmoil, insurance industry analysts said, driven in part by roof-replacement fraud and widespread litigation.

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After a disaster, Louisianans are running into problems with their insurance companies sending dozens of adjusters to their case -- leading to major delays in support. Some legislation is looking to tackle that problem despite insurance companies raising objections.

After back-to-back tornado outbreaks two weeks in a row, last month set the record for most tornado reports during the month of March. As of Friday morning, the current preliminary number was 233 tornado reports, breaking the record of 225 reports in 2012, with records going back to the year 2000.

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.