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City and state officials fielded years of complaints about dangerous conditions, drugs, neglected children, trash, thefts and squabbles at the illegally converted warehouse where 36 partygoers were killed in a weekend fire, with inspectors knocking on the door as recently … Source: Claims Journal

Extreme downpours – like those that flooded Louisiana, Houston and West Virginia earlier this year – will happen nearly three times as often in the United States by the end of the century, and six times more frequently in parts … Source: Claims Journal

In 11 years of operating a Greensburg, Pa., pawn shop, Ashley Nicklaus prides herself on the good relationships she has built with police who occasionally call when they suspect customers may be selling stolen merchandise. When her license to buy … Source: Claims Journal

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says new technology is being used to not only unlock and open vehicles, but to also start and steal them. NICB recently obtained one of the so-called “mystery devices” that the public was first … Source: Claims Journal

To anyone handling claims, interruptions are a constant frustration that must be dealt with on a daily basis. According to Kevin Quinley, founder and principal of Quinley Risk Associates, interruptions can prove fatal to adjuster productivity. In a Claims Insights … Source: Claims Journal

The gym of a rural Texas elementary school was fully engulfed in flames before anyone could do anything about it. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports with only unpaid volunteer firefighters in the small town of about 2,200 people, Hale Center Volunteer … Source: Claims Journal

Don’t count on smartphone health apps in an emergency: A review shows many don’t warn when you’re in danger. The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs found problems even with apps considered to be among the highest-quality offerings … Source: Claims Journal

In a self-evident decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that an insurance company’s failure to re-evaluate a case value after the trial court eliminated a key affirmative defense justified a bad faith failure to settle verdict. The … Source: Claims Journal

In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby’s announced Monday that it had purchased a forensics firm whose founder once helped the auction house belatedly identify a $10 million painting as a fake. Sotheby’s said that Orion Analytical, based in Williamstown, … Source: Claims Journal

Two sons of an Oregon woman killed when a mudslide plowed through her home last winter are seeking nearly $10 million in a lawsuit filed against a couple and a utility district. Delores Miller, 70, died Dec. 18, 2015, after … Source: Claims Journal