BoatUS Estimates Hurricane Matthew Damage to Recreational Boats at $110M December 6, 2016 Hurricane Matthew, which threatened four coastal states as it corkscrewed through the Atlantic in early October, caused an estimated $110...
Oakland Warehouse Fire Death Toll Grows to 36 as Investigators Search for Answers December 6, 2016 By KRISTIN J. BENDER and BRIAN MELLEY The death toll in the Oakland, Calif., warehouse fire has grown to 36 and authorities say they expect the number...
FM Global: Next Generation Fire Sprinklers Aimed at Curbing Warehouse Fires December 6, 2016 Warehouses, served by increasingly powerful automated materials-handling equipment, are steadily getting taller, posing new fire risks and stressing traditional fire...
Study Finds Extreme Tornado Outbreaks Spawning Greater Number of Twisters December 6, 2016 The most extreme tornado outbreaks are mysteriously spawning many more twisters than they did decades ago, a new study claimed....
Business News: CLARA Analytics, IICF, Lemonade December 6, 2016 CLARA Analytics Launches PUMA Search Engine to Help Insurance Carriers Reduce Workers’ Compensation Costs CLARA analytics, a division of LeanTaaS,...
No CGL Coverage for Building Contractor’s Shoddy Workmanship Causing Damage to the Work Itself December 6, 2016 By Richard Wolf In a decision filed November 18, 2016, Arkansas U. S. district judge Susan Webber Wright, the same jurist who in...
Liberty Mutual Set to Buy Fosun’s Ironshore for $3B December 6, 2016 By Jordyn Holman and Katherine Chiglinsky Liberty Mutual Holding Co., the fourth-largest property/casualty insurer in the U.S., agreed to buy Ironshore Inc. from Fosun International Ltd....
J&J to Pay Record $1B for Faulty Hip Implants December 6, 2016 By Jef Feeley and Tom Korosec Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Texas jury to pay more than $1 billion to patients who claimed the...
Word of Mouth, Desire for More Money Leads Injured Auto Crash Claimants to Hire Attorneys December 5, 2016 In a recent online poll about experiences with auto injury insurance claims, almost half of respondents with auto injury claims...
Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference 2017 Announced for C-Suite Carrier Professionals December 5, 2016 Insurance Journal and Demotech, Inc. announced that the inaugural Super Regional P/C Insurer Conference will be held July 16-18 2017...