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 nations Big 4 insurers to offer the new technology on the ground.
September 14, 2017
Auto
Risk Management
Technology
Colorado
South Carolina
Hurricane Joses 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



