Orient Insurance Loses Bid to Recover Payout for Dubai Hotel Fire September 23, 2022 By Malak Harb DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion dirhams in...
State Farm Fire Prevention Pilot Tests Sensors That Detect Electrical Wiring Defects November 17, 2020 By Jim Sams State Farm is sending sensors that can detect hazards in electric wiring to 40,000 homeowners in California, Arizona and Texas...
Not All Homes in Wildfire Zones Are Uninsurable. Here’s How Insurers Can Tell. May 22, 2020 By Jim Sams Fire-risk scores now used by insurance underwriters can sometimes can make it challenging for homeowners to find coverage. Zesty.ai, a...
High-Rise Building Catches Fire in United Arab Emirates May 7, 2020 A high-rise tower caught fire Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates and authorities said it wasn’t immediately clear what caused...
Mother’s Voice More Effective in Smoke Alarm for Kids Than High-Pitch Tone December 13, 2018 A sleeping child is more likely to be awakened by voice alarms than by traditional tone alarms, new research finds....
No Delay for Honolulu Condo Owners to Perform Fire Safety Evaluations December 11, 2018 A measure that would have given condominium owners two extra years to comply with a Honolulu fire safety law has...
Deadly London Tower Fire Sparks Development in U.S. of Safety Evaluation Tool December 15, 2017 By Jeff Martin Six months after flames engulfed a London high-rise and sparked concerns about similarly-clad buildings around the world, a U.S.-based fire...
Wisconsin Attorney General: Apartment Building Sprinkler Rule Not Enforceable December 11, 2017 By Todd Richmond Wisconsin regulators can’t enforce a rule requiring sprinklers in large apartment buildings, Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel said on Dec....
Fire Sweeps Through Dubai’s Tallest Residential Tower – Its 2nd Incident in 2 Years August 4, 2017 By William Maclean A fire ripped through one of the world’s tallest residential towers in Dubai on Friday, the latest in a series...
Australia’s New South Wales to Inspect High-Rise Cladding over Fire Safety July 31, 2017 By Benjamin Cooper Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) government will inspect more than 1,000 residential and commercial towers that may have potentially unsafe...