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Two Dead in Thailand After Second Deadly Crane Accident a Day Earlier
Jan 15 2026 // A crane collapsed onto a road near Thailand’s capital on Thursday, crushing two vehicles and killing two people a day after a similar accident in the northeast caused the derailing of a train and the deaths of 32...
Two Big California Home Insurers to Raise Rates by 6.9%
Jan 15 2026 // Two large California home insurers will be raising rates for by an average of 6.9% this year, filings with the California Department of Insurance show. CSAA will begin rate increases for nearly 481,800 homeowners starting...
One Dead in Australian Wildfires That May Burn for Weeks to Come
Jan 12 2026 // One person has died in wildfires in the Australian state of Victoria that have burned out an area slightly larger than Rhode Island. A body was found about 100 meters from a vehicle near the fire-affected town of Gobur,...
Two Killed in South Carolina When Scissor Lift Hit Power Lines
Jan 8 2026 // Two utility workers in North Charleston were killed when the scissor lift they were using struck live power lines, causing a fire. Local news outlets reported that witnesses said the 25-year-old men, working at night Jan....
Three Atlanta Firms Merge, Offering Range of Insurance and Financial Services
Jan 7 2026 // Three Atlanta-based firms have merged, expanding insurance and financial services for small and medium-sized businesses, with growth plans for 2026. Partners Risk Services, an independent insurance brokerage in...
Four in New Jersey Face Charges in Alleged $250K Travel Insurance Scam
Jan 5 2026 // Four people have been indicted in New Jersey for their alleged roles in a scheme to file fraudulent travel insurance claims worth more than $250,000. They are accused of taking out multiple travel insurance policies and...
Three Top P/C Insurers Account for Most of Insurance AI Patents
Dec 22 2025 // Three property/casualty insurers have dominated the industry’s artificial intelligence patent activity since 2014. State Farm, USAA and Allstate account for 77% of all AI patents by insurers in that time, according...
One of Highest Property Claims Severity Recorded in Q3 on Low Volume, Says Verisk
Dec 9 2025 // A new report from Verisk has found that property insurance claims volume during the third quarter 2025 was the lowest it has been in the past five years but claims severity during the period was one of the highest in...
Nine Insurers OK’d to Sell Group Health to Washington Employers
Dec 4 2025 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer approved nine health insurers to sell group health plans to small employers in 2026. The insurers are: Asuris Northwest Health, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the...
Four Convicted of Collision Fraud Involving a Rideshare Driver in California
Dec 3 2025 // Four people were convicted of felony insurance fraud and assault for faking an auto collision that involved a rideshare driver in San Bernardino, California. According to the California Department of Insurance, two of the...
Two Killed, 10 Displaced in Savannah Apartment Complex Fire
Dec 2 2025 // Two people died and 10 more were forced out of their dwellings by a fire that cut through an apartment complex near Savannah, Georgia. Local news outlets reported that the blaze broke out early Sunday morning at The...
Three Swiss Insurers Added to G20 Watchdog Resolution Plan List
Nov 25 2025 // Zurich Insurance, Swiss Re, and Swiss Life have been added to a list of insurance firms that must develop resolution plans in case of insolvency, the G20’s financial watchdog said on Tuesday. The Financial Stability...
Two-Year-Old Falls From 20-Story New Jersey Apartment Building
Nov 17 2025 // Authorities in New Jersey are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was reported to have fallen from a 20th-story window. Newark police were called to a high-rise apartment building at 7 a.m. Saturday on the...
Five Reasons Why the US Escaped a Hurricane Landfall So Far This Year
Nov 13 2025 // A weather forecasting organization is offering up five reasons why the U.S. wasn’t hit by a hurricane this season, despite forecasts that called for an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with numerous anticipated...
Four Indicted for Roles in New Jersey Home Invasion, Auto Theft Ring
Nov 10 2025 // New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) reported that four men were charged in a 61-count indictment for their respective roles in an auto theft and home invasion ring. The...
Two Men Charged with Terrorism Plot at LGBTQ+ Bars in Detroit Suburb
Nov 5 2025 // Two 20-year-old men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit in September for a possible Halloween attack, authorities said Monday in filing...
Two New Suspects Handed Preliminary Charges in Louvre Jewels Heist, Prosecutor Says
Nov 3 2025 // The Paris prosecutor said Saturday two new suspects were handed preliminary charges for their alleged involvement in the crown jewels heist at the Louvre museum, three days after they were arrested by police as part of the...
Five Correctional Department Employees Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Oct 31 2025 // Five current and former New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) employees were arrested this week for separate schemes to defraud DOCCS and the state’s workers’ compensation...
Six-Month Review
Oct 6 2025 // An early look by AM Best at the financial results of the U.S. property/casualty industry revealed insurers recorded an estimated $11.2 billion in net underwriting income in the first half of 2025. That’s a...
Two High-Profile Personal Injury Law Firms Sue… Each Other
Oct 6 2025 // Insurance folks tired of personal injury law firms going after those “greedy insurance companies” might want a ringside seat for this one. Two high-profile Boston-area personal injury law firms are going after...
