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No Insurance Needed, Amish Quickly Repair Tornado Damage in Michigan and Indiana
No contractors, no repair estimates, and no haggling with the insurance company. After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National Weather Service ...
California Wildfires Had Little Impact on Reinsurers’ Risk Appetite During April Renewals
Property-catastrophe capacity remained adequate to meet demand during the April 1 renewals for U.S. reinsurance buyers, despite the record losses from California's January wildfires, according to Aon ...
Report: 75% of Small Businesses Had Workplace Injuries; Mental Health a Growing Concern
Three-quarters of small businesses reported a workplace injury in the past year, while mental health-related injuries grew to become the most common workplace injury, a report using data from more ...
U.S. Road Deaths Drop Below 40,000, First Time Since COVID
A projected 39,345 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The figure represents a ...
Appalachia Flood Risk Climbing: Report
A new report from the largest private flood insurer in the U.S. highlights the increasing flood risk for properties located in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Neptune Flood released its ...
Swollen Rivers Flood Towns in the South and Midwest
Days of unrelenting downpours swelled rivers to near record levels across Kentucky on Monday, submerging neighborhoods and threatening a famed bourbon distillery in the state capital. Inundated ...
Is State Farm General a Sinking Ship? California Emergency Rate Request Dropped to 17%
Lawyers for State Farm General, the California Department of Insurance and Consumer Watchdog presented opening arguments in a hearing to determine the fate of State Farm's request for an emergency ...
AccuWeather: Severe Storms in Central US Cause $80-$90B in Damages, Economic Loss
A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather. From ...