Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger. Agencies with digital radio systems have turned off the … Source: Claims Journal

It was an eye-catching scene on Stamford’s West Avenue on the evening of Oct. 6. A cop, a fire marshal, zoning officers and officials from the Connecticut city’s health department walked toward a multifamily home, carrying a measuring tape, a … Source: Claims Journal

Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles—but in a very different way. It all comes down to safety, according to Karl Viktor Schaller, head … Source: Claims Journal

Survivors and family members of people killed in the nation’s deadliest landslide have reached $60 million in settlements with the state of Washington and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse. Just as opening … Source: Claims Journal

Liberty Mutual Executive Moves to Lemonade Lemonade, a new insurer that is beginning to do business in New York, announced the appointment of John Peters as its chief underwriting officer. He comes to Lemonade from Liberty Mutual, where he held … Source: Claims Journal

Claims is at the center of the revolution to maintain a sustainable organization, according to Mark Cloutier, chief executive officer of the Brit Group and keynote speaker at the recent International Association of Claim Professionals annual conference held in Sonoma, … Source: Claims Journal

In 2010, researchers at the University of Michigan hypothesized that it is theoretically possible to conjure particles from a complete vacuum under the right circumstances. Performing such a feat in the world of subrogation might seem improbable, but subrogation theory … Source: Claims Journal

More than four years since a massive sinkhole swallowed trees in Assumption Parish and forced more than 300 residents from their homes officials say it now no longer poses a risk to the public. Assumption Parish officials declared Friday that … Source: Claims Journal

Experts estimate insured losses from Matthew, the second major hurricane of 2016, to range between $6 and $10 billion. Fitch Ratings estimates that if the storm results in insured losses in excess of $10 billion, a greater proportion of losses … Source: Claims Journal

When Christa Savva returned to the Sandy Shoes Beach Resort a day after Hurricane Matthew brushed by Melbourne Beach, Florida, she looked at the beach in front of the pink-flamingo-colored hotel and noticed half the sand dunes had disappeared. Savva … Source: Claims Journal