News NICB: Catalytic Converter Thefts Continue to Rise The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reports today that from 2008 through 2015, there were 25,394 catalytic converter thefts across... Read More
Texas / South Central News Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Fall 10.2% The annual filing most insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation insurance shows a decrease for the... Read More
News Wells Fargo: Private Data Loss More Concerning to Businesses Than Hackers With network security top of mind, businesses are nearly two times more concerned with losing private data (47 percent )... Read More
News Airbag Defect Linked to Death Prompts GM Recall of 4M Vehicles General Motors Co. is recalling more than 4 million vehicles, most of them in the U.S., to fix an airbag... Read More
West News Insurers, People Rarely Pay When Washington Bills for Negligence-Caused Wildfires Washington regularly bills people who are deemed to have negligently started wildfires, but the state isn’t always successful at collecting.... Read More
Texas / South Central News Wastewater Wells Closing After Latest Oklahoma Quake a Fraction of State’s Total The 37 wastewater disposal wells to be shut down in north-central Oklahoma, where a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck this weekend,... Read More
West News GPS Placed California Arson Suspect at Scene of Wildfire That Destroyed 189 Homes A GPS tracker placed a California arson suspect’s vehicle at the scene of a destructive wildfire north of San Francisco... Read More
News Texas / South Central News Louisiana Flooding to Cost Economy $10 Billion; 80% of Damaged Homes Uninsured The total economic losses of the recent Louisiana floods will be in the range of $10-15 billion, according to Impact... Read More
Midwest News Michigan OSHA to Conduct Surprise Inspections of Demolition Sites Michigan’s workplace safety agency plans to step up unannounced inspections of demolition sites around the state to ensure workers are... Read More
Southeast News Scammers Use Florida Regulator’s Name in Bogus Cancellation Email The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) and the Department of Financial Services (DFS) are warning state insurance consumers of... Read More