California's insurance commissioner has issued an emergency notice to all property and casualty insurance companies doing business in California, requesting that they expedite claims handling for California wildfire survivors.

The Supreme Court of Washington has ruled that an insurance carrier's wrongful withholding of personal injury protection benefits injured the insured in his or her "business or property" within the meaning of the Washington Consumer Protection Act.

The Supreme Court of Alabama, in an insurance coverage case, has ruled that a party, by seeking indemnity and thereby placing the reasonableness and good faith of a settlement in issue, did not waive the attorney-client privilege or the protection afforded by the work-product doctrine.

Oklahoma's insurance commissioner has issued an order authorizing Providence Washington Insurance Company, a Rhode Island-based insurance company, to submit its insurance business transfer plan to an Oklahoma court for approval.

The National Transportation Safety Board called on federal regulators to create a review process before allowing automated test vehicles to operate on public roads, based on the agency's investigation of a fatal collision between an Uber automated test vehicle and a pedestrian.

A New York jury has awarded nearly $100,000 to a plaintiff who alleged that he was injured by a chainsaw.

The Supreme Court of Alaska has affirmed a trial court's decision dismissing claims by a plaintiff allegedly injured in a hit-and-run car accident against the insurer of the vehicle that allegedly left the scene.

A Florida court has ruled that a business owner was an insured under an insurance policy issued to him "d/b/a" his business.