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A general contractor cannot be held liable for an injury of an employee of a subcontractor where the general contractor had little or no control over the subcontractor’s work or job environment. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week upheld … Source: Claims Journal

Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a four-part series on the erosion of integrity in property claims. Part I measures the decline. Part II will document the misconduct driving it. Part III will trace the causes to a … Source: Claims Journal

Daniel Ilg started out in the freight brokerage industry at 14 years old, learning from his dad how to match trucking companies with loads of goods that needed to move around the country. About two decades later, now running the … Source: Claims Journal

Late last week, Allstate unveiled Allstate Claims University, a 33,000-square-foot campus in Dallas, complete with hands-on property and auto labs—immersive training environments representing scenarios that claims professionals will face in the real world. In a statement about the opening of … Source: Claims Journal

The gap in average claims severity between repairable battery electric vehicles and internal combustion engine automobiles hit the lowest level on record in both the U.S. and Canada, a new report shows. Mitchell released its latest Plugged-In: EV Collision Insights … Source: Claims Journal

A California agency on Wednesday approved long-delayed regulations designed to protect homes from wildfire, but they’re less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. The new rules, which apply to about 2 million homes, were mandated by a 2020 … Source: Claims Journal

A California agency on Wednesday approved long-delayed regulations designed to protect homes from wildfire, but they’re less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. The new rules, which apply to about 2 million homes, were mandated by a 2020 … Source: Claims Journal

There’s a flurry of construction in Pacific Palisades, more than a year and a half after a wildfire ravaged the Los Angeles enclave in the most destructive blazes in Southern California history. There’s also a lot of frustration. At the … Source: Claims Journal

There’s a flurry of construction in Pacific Palisades, more than a year and a half after a wildfire ravaged the Los Angeles enclave in the most destructive blazes in Southern California history. There’s also a lot of frustration. At the … Source: Claims Journal

A former engineering director at Meta Platforms META.O testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.A Arturo Bejar, a vocal critic of Meta’s safety … Source: Claims Journal