By Tom Johansmeyer and Ted Gregory | June 6, 2022 The United States remains the largest peak peril risk area in the global re/insurance market and accounts for the bulk of the reinsurance that’s traded. Over…
By Hyunjoo Jin | April 7, 2022 AN FRANCISCO –– Toyota Motor Corp unit Woven Planet is following the lead of Tesla Inc. in trying to advance self-driving technology with low-cost cameras. Woven Planet told Reuters it is able to…
By Claims Journal staff | January 26, 2022 Insurers are getting a larger share of suspicious claim referrals from fraud-detection technology and are increasingly using artificial intelligence to sift through data, according to a new study by…
Billions of people are active on social media these days—and they tend to share more, rather than less. This means insurance fraud investigators have a tremendous resource at their disposal when investigating claims—provided they know…
Few things in life are as stressful for your insureds as a major loss of property. Not only must they deal with the loss itself, but the claims process can be difficult and frustrating. According…
Tesla Inc has dropped radar sensors from its semi-autonomous driving system, Autopilot, raising concerns over the safety of the camera-only version, Tesla Vision. Tesla aims to make the driver-assist system fully self-driving, and many in…
Wildfires in California have burned a record 4 million acres since the start of 2020, charring more land in the past nine months than during the previous three years combined. The results are devastating. The…
Fire Prevention Week kicks off Sunday, and it's critical that older Americans take steps to stay safe. Statistics show that the risk of dying in a residential fire is greater as people age because of…
By Nicholas Riccardi and Dee-Ann Durbin | April 30, 2020 Jordan Flowers never thought he would become a labor leader. Then the coronavirus forced him to risk his life every time he clocked in. The…
Land management agencies are underutilizing controlled burns to reduce wildfire threats in the western U.S., according to a wildfire study. The University of Idaho study indicates the use of the intentionally set fires has decreased…
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