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Hurricane Forecasters Shrinking ‘Cone Of Uncertainty’

The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its "cone of uncertainty" based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.
April 19, 2018 Catastrophe Property Alabama Delaware District Of Columbia Florida Georgia

U.S. Recalls More Than 200M Eggs Over Salmonella Fears

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.
April 16, 2018 Subrogation Colorado Florida New Jersey New York North Carolina

South Carolina BMW Plant Worker Killed By Machinery

First responders were called to the scene of an accidental death at the BMW manufacturing plant in Spartanburg County on Wednesday.
March 29, 2018 Workers' Compensation South Carolina

Staged Car Accidents A Growing Menace In South Carolina

Most people try to avoid a car wreck, but for some criminals a deliberate crash is seen as a ticket to quick riches. In South Carolina, a rising number of suspected insurance scammers have been flagged for submitting claims related to collisions that turn out to be no accident.
March 12, 2018 Auto Fraud Liability South Carolina

More Than 100 Injured In Fatal Amtrak And Freight Train Collision

A locked switch is being blamed for the collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 others in South Carolina early on Sunday.
February 5, 2018 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability South Carolina

Was Tire Or Maintenance At Fault In Deadly 2016 Football Bus Crash? Lawsuits Blame All.

New lawsuits from the 2016 fatal bus crash of a football team from Rock Hill filed by survivors of the crash and the widow of the bus driver allege tire failure through improper maintenance of the bus.
January 31, 2018 Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Litigation South Carolina

Severe Weather Leaves Damage In The Carolinas

The Carolinas have some cleaning up to do after being slammed by severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and flooding and possible tornadoes that flipped tractor-trailers and small planes, broke storefront windows and pushed one house off its foundation.
October 24, 2017 Auto Excess & Surplus Lines Property North Carolina South Carolina

AIG Forecasts $3B In Q3 Catastrophe Losses

American International Group expects to record insurance losses of roughly $3 billion during the third quarter from the recent hurricanes and earthquakes.
October 10, 2017 Auto Catastrophe Excess & Surplus Lines Marine Property Florida Georgia South Carolina Texas

Tornadoes Confirmed In Both Carolinas

The National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings for several counties near Charlotte, as weather from Hurricane Nate continues to affect the region.
October 9, 2017 Property North Carolina South Carolina

Metal shavings Put 38,475 Pounds Of Ground Turkey On The Recall List

At not-food-in-food recall on Monday night covers 38,475 pounds of ground turkey, including the Publix store brand, that might have metal shavings from the processing equipment. In addition to Publix ground turkey and ground turkey breast in 1.3-pound styrofoam trays, 1.2-pound trays of Fit & Active Fresh Ground Turkey and 1-pound trays of Weis Markets Fresh Ground Turkey Breast are covered in the recall. All have ink jet printing on the side of the trays with the numbers 7268 and 7269.
October 3, 2017 Liability Life & Health Alabama Connecticut Florida Georgia New York

Irma Insurance Claims Already Near $2 Billion

With 335,000 insurance claims representing $1.9 billion in property losses, Hurricane Irma already has exceeded the claims and losses from the two hurricanes that pummeled Florida last year, the state Office of Insurance Regulation reported Monday.
September 20, 2017 Auto Catastrophe Property Florida Georgia North Carolina South Carolina

Harvey, Irma Damage Reaches Nearly $300 Billion

Preliminary data on the total cost of damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is finally coming in, and analysts are projecting hundreds of billions in losses thanks to the damage caused by both weather events.
September 15, 2017 Auto Catastrophe Excess & Surplus Lines Marine Property Florida Georgia South Carolina Texas

Large Corporate Claims From Hurricane Irma May Take Years To Settle

Insurance claims are already pouring in from policyholders with properties damaged by Hurricane Irma. The United States mainland sustained about $18 billion of insured loss, with the majority of damage seen in Florida, followed by Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama, according to catastrophe modelling firm Karen Clark & Co.
September 14, 2017 Catastrophe Excess & Surplus Lines Litigation Property Alabama Florida Georgia South Carolina

Big Insurers Using New Hail Damage-Estimating Technology

Allstate announced Tuesday it had provided automated hail estimating to victims of a recent Colorado hailstorm, the first of the nation’s Big 4 insurers to offer the new technology on the ground.
September 14, 2017 Auto Risk Management Technology Colorado South Carolina

Hurricane Jose’s Strange Path May Bring It Back Toward The Bahamas And US

First Harvey, then Irma and now ... Jose? Hurricane Jose was 840 miles east of Florida early Wednesday, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, making it a Category 1 storm."Jose looping over the southwest Atlantic between the Bahamas and Bermuda," the National Hurricane Center said.
September 13, 2017 Property Florida South Carolina
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