Perhaps no single federal agency has been tested as much by 2020 as the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It has been a year of disaster. In addition to Covid-19, it was the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, and wildfires …
SINGAPORE, Dec 14 — Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a fuel transport ship anchored at a terminal was hit by an explosive-laden boat in what it called a terrorist attack, after shipping firm Hafnia said one of its tankers …
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — In Ocean Lakes, 100 more trees will soon be popping up in yards throughout the flood-prone neighborhood in southern Virginia Beach, each gifted at no cost from a local environmental group. And in nearby parks …
EDENVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Crews have started emergency construction work on a portion of a central Michigan dam that collapsed last spring and contributed to flooding that destroyed homes and forced the evacuations of about 10,000 people. Excavation work will …
Four men have been charged with arson for fires set as part of separate political protests: Three in Minnesota and a fourth in Washington state. The three Minnesota men were indicted on federal arson charges in connection with fires that …
MIAMI (AP) — A record-breaking rainy season has left the River of Grass looking like a real river. Shark Valley, a popular Everglades National Park tourist stop off Tamiami Trail, is temporarily closed and mostly underwater. The looping road leading …
United States consumers are generally more satisfied with insurers’ digital claims channels than their counterparts in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, but more work can be done to enhance the claims experience, according to a new …
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Brynlee Alice Jean Bledsoe is still too young to know the significance, but someday she’ll understand that her middle names are in honor of two of the women who helped free her father from prison in 2015. …
We’re now nine months since lockdowns were first introduced across most of the world and while many countries are flattening the curve of the virus, the same cannot be said of the COVID-19 litigation caseloads hitting insurers. In the US …
LONDON, Dec 11 — A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an upsurge in insurance policies that give companies and private equity firms cover for when a deal goes wrong, …