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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved policy forms filed by at least eight property insurers that limit the amount the carriers will pay to replace undamaged materials to create a matching, uniform appearance after repairs, state records show. … Source: Claims Journal

Insured losses from severe convective storms in the United States continued to increase during the third quarter, surpassing the $50 billion mark for the first time on record and accounting for roughly 60% of all global insured losses, according to … Source: Claims Journal

With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said Thursday. Last month Hurricane Lee went from barely a … Source: Claims Journal

Heavy rain and high winds will sweep the southern part of Mexico’s Baja California Sur, including Cabo San Lucas, for the next few days as Hurricane Norma approaches possible making a brief landfall sometime Saturday or early Sunday. Norma has … Source: Claims Journal

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Much of northern Europe braced for stormy weather and gale-force winds from the east on Thursday, with authorities warning that floods could cause major problems in inland Danish waters, in the Baltic Sea and in the … Source: Claims Journal

WASHINGTON (AP) — A multimillion-dollar conspiracy trial that stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment is now touching on the tech world with arguments that a defense attorney for a Fugees rapper bungled closing arguments by using an artificial … Source: Claims Journal

ORD, Neb. (AP) — A small-town Nebraska sheriff has been charged with filing a fraudulent auto insurance claim to get the repairs to his yellow 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo paid for. The complaint filed against Valley County Sheriff Casey Hurlburt … Source: Claims Journal

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — For people around the world, the green leaves that sprouted from a scorched, 150-year-old banyan tree in the heart of devastated Lahaina symbolized hope following Maui’s deadly wildfire this summer. Teams rushed to flood its roots … Source: Claims Journal

Acuity and Progressive Specialty Insurance Co. disputed who should pay after a 16-year-old boy borrowed a friend’s car and crashed it into a utility pole in Streetsboro, Ohio. The driver was insured by Acuity through a policy issued to his … Source: Claims Journal

LONDON –– Aviation war insurers have given notice to cancel cover for some airlines domiciled in Israel and Lebanon because of the conflict in the region, with some cancellations already taking effect, three industry sources with direct knowledge of the … Source: Claims Journal