As wildfires seemingly increase in frequency and severity of insured losses year after year, insurers are devising fire prevention methods to protect their client’s properties — including hiring private firefighting specialists. New Jersey-based Chubb Corp. began offering free fire protection …
Total of 16 Cats Generate More Than 1.2 Million Claims; Average Claim Nearly $5,000 U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $6.025 billion for second quarter property losses resulting from a total of 16 catastrophes …
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More than a third of the patients who went to 37 primary-care health clinics across Colorado on a single day were uninsured, researchers said, suggesting that at least 1.35 million people statewide could be in the same dilemma. The voluntary …
Small pickups aren’t providing as much protection in side crashes as many new cars and sport utility vehicles. The Toyota Tacoma was the only one of five small pickup trucks, all 2008 models, to earn the highest rating of good …
Four counties in southwestern Colorado that passed a law requiring driver’s licenses and liability insurance for ATV riders want the state to enact similar requirements. Officials in San Juan, Hinsdale, Ouray and San Miguel counties enacted the stricter law in …
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $6.025 billion for second quarter property losses resulting from a total of 16 catastrophes in 27 states, which is nearly double the number of catastrophes in the first …
While a rural area to the northeast of Denver, Colo., tops the nation when it comes to metropolitan areas most prone to tornadoes, Texas leads the states in the average total number of tornadoes per year in the continental United …
Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an auto collision every 14.6 years. …
In addition to blaring sirens and screeching weather-radio alerts, residents in Glenpool, Okla., will now have another way of learning about approaching tornadoes: they will get a telephone call. The City Council has approved a contract with Media Weather Innovations …
