Nearly 100,000 Mississippi residents were under a tornado emergency on Sunday night, including the city of Tupelo, as a confirmed large and destructive tornado tore through the region.

Major hailstorms pelted three big cities across the south-central United States on Wednesday night, shattering windows, denting vehicles and leaving behind headaches for homeowners.

Whether property has suffered ‘direct physical loss’ when it cannot be used for its intended purpose is the first hurdle that most policyholders will face in the 1,500 lawsuits that have been filed regarding property insurance for COVID-19.

Hail as large as softballs rained down Wednesday evening as severe thunderstorms struck parts of Texas and Oklahoma. There were 38 reports of severe hail across Texas and Oklahoma, including near San Antonio, Fort Worth and Oklahoma City, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Flooding and confirmed tornadoes caused damage in parts of Oklahoma and Missouri overnight and into Wednesday afternoon. Flooding was reported in Branson, Missouri, as well as several other areas, including Abilene, Texas, and Bentonville, Arkansas.

Collecting high-resolution images, making it easy to report a loss, and integrating the service providers into the claims process are claims innovations carriers need to bring in if they are not already, InsurTech North speakers suggested last week.

As it builds out a framework to model future climate risk, AIR Worldwide made changes last year to its hurricane and U.S. wildfire models with the goal of providing insurers and their clients with more accurate assessments of those morphing risks.

A state agency provided the Legislature with misleading data about Florida property insurance lawsuits, according to an insurance expert, adding to the debate as lawmakers consider a bill to limit consumer access to the courts when seeking claims from insurers.

Texas is still shaking from one of the most damaging natural disasters in recent history. In February 2021, the southern state and its surrounding neighbors fell prey to Winter Storm Uri -- a deep freeze event that saw temperatures plummet as low as -18C.

Some homeowners and car owners in parts of Williamson and Travis counties are dealing with damage after Thursday’s hail storm.

In the year of ‘pandemic pets,’ homeowners’ dog-bite injury claims fell overall, but the total cost of claims spiked to a record level, according to a new analysis of 2020 data from the Insurance Information Institute (III) and State Farm.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is changing its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) pricing methodology beginning Oct. 1.

A new report from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation found Florida accounted for over 76% of all homeowners’ litigation in the United States in 2019.

A cluster of severe storms swept across Southern states early Saturday, dropping large hail on a coastal Alabama city.

Initial projections from forecasters suggests that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season could be very active, while the chance of major hurricane landfalls occurring is also seen as above-average.