Despite studies showing a new federal flood-risk rating is more equitable and accurate, opposition to higher flood insurance rates continues to build in some parts of the country. In coastal…
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Pandemic Adding Cost to Rebuild After Colorado Wildfire
Rex and Barba Hickman’s home of 23 years near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains has been reduced to a blackened heap by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history….
Oregon Rolling Out Hospital Crisis Care Standards as COVID Surges
Oregon hospitals have new interim guidelines to help them determine which patients should get lifesaving care if the current COVID-19 surge forces them to choose between people because of a…
Citizens Starts Massive Florida Property Inspection Program This Month
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is reminding agents that it is greatly expanding the number of property inspections, starting this month, in an effort to reduce its policy count and exposure….
People Moves: Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon Adds Partee; Alliant Adds McCorkle as Vice President
Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon Adds Stormie Partee Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon has named Stormie Partee as the Commercial Team Lead and Operations Manager. In this role, she will…
South Dakota Lawmakers Consider Recreational Marijuana Legalization
South Dakota lawmakers spent the last year figuring out what to do with two voter-approved measures to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana. While a medical program has been implemented,…
Fire Crews Put Out Fire at Condemned Duluth Hotel
Fire crews were fighting a large fire at a condemned hotel in Duluth, Minnesota Jan. 10 in subzero conditions. Duluth fire officials say the roof of the old Seaway Hotel…
Life Insurance Corp. of India’s IPO Prospectus Could Be Filed in Final Week of January
Life Insurance Corporation of India could file a prospectus in the final week of January for what would be the nation’s biggest initial public offering, according to people with knowledge…
Investigations Begin Into Deadly New York City Apartment Building Fire
Doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades as authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through the high-rise, trapping many families…
LDI Affirmed in State Farm Hurricane Barry Deductible Case
A Louisiana administrative hearings panel has ruled that Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon was justified in preventing State Farm from enforcing a hurricane deductible for certain losses caused by Hurricane Barry…