Carriers across North America are reporting higher claims complexity and rising costs as medical inflation, litigation behavior and emerging AI‑enabled fraud reshape the claims environment, a new report shows. According to Gallagher Bassett’s 2026 Carrier Report, 64% of North American …
Scientists Burn Homes to Figure out How to Best Protect Them in Wildfires
From 2016 to 2025, wildfires in the U.S. on average burned an area the size of Massachusetts each year—2.6 times the average burn area of