Road to Recovery Making Subrogation While the Hay Shines January 7, 2016 By Gary Wickert Every year in North America insurers pay out tens of millions of claim dollars resulting from fires and feed damage... Read More
FM Global Tests Fire Modeling to Fight Industrial Warehouse Blazes January 7, 2016 Roughly 40 percent of all industrial property loss in the United States comes from fire, and fire is the leading... Read More
Jacobson, Ward Group Announce Window for 2016 Insurance Labor Outlook Study January 6, 2016 The 2016 iteration of the Semi-Annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study, conducted by The Jacobson Group and Ward Group, a... Read More
Horrific Crash Scene Memory Inspires Toyota Robotics Czar January 6, 2016 By Craig Trudell and Yuki Hagiwara The quest to build crash-proof cars at Toyota Motor Corp. isn’t just a job for Gill Pratt. It’s somewhat personal.... Read More
Hoverboard Safety Concerns Mount January 6, 2016 In recent months, the safety of hoverboards has been called into question. Several instances of fire have prompted multiple bans... Read More
El Niño Curbs 2015 U.S. Cat Losses, Biggest Insured Losses Due to Brutal Winter January 5, 2016 The costliest global natural catastrophe for the insurance industry in 2015 was the series of winter storms that struck the... Read More
Supreme Court to Hear State Farm Appeal Over Hurricane Katrina Fraud Claim January 1, 2016 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal by State Farm contesting a jury finding that the... Read More
GM’s Attempt at Dismissal Fails to Avert First Ignition Switch Trial December 31, 2015 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected General Motors Co’s bid to dismiss the first so-called “bellwether” case over defective ignition... Read More
Though Pot May Be Legal, You Can Still Get Fired December 31, 2015 With marijuana legalization spreading state- by-state across America and the U.S. government backing away from aggressive enforcement of federal laws,... Read More
Personal Injury Lawyers Think Self-Driving Car Crashes Will Offer Big Payday December 31, 2015 By Keith Naughton and Margaret Cronin Fisk Imagine a robot car with no one behind the wheel hitting another driverless car. Who’s at fault? The answer: No... Read More