In cases alleging bad faith against an insurance carrier, policyholders will often sue employee adjusters or contractors (independent adjusters, engineers, experts) of the insurance carrier in order to keep the case out of federal court. In a legal sense, policyholders sue the employee adjusters or contractors to defeat ‘diversity jurisdiction’ necessary for the federal court to hear the case.

Lori Willman was at home on a Sunday in June 2010 when someone from the sheriff’s department knocked on her door. A fire had started in the Coconino National Forest and everyone in Willman’s neighborhood, the Timberline Estates north of Flagstaff, needed to evacuate.

GEICO has been making a concerted effort to attract applicants to fill hundreds of insurance company jobs it is opening and that need workers before the end of the year.

Effective January 1, 2022, Arizona will become the first state to eliminate the use of peremptory challenges in jury selection in both criminal and civil trials—including the trial of subrogation cases.

The Bootleg Fire, a fast-moving wildfire in southern Oregon, has burned more than 200,000 acres, making it the largest of dozens of blazes across the United States, officials said Tuesday.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is cracking down on unnecessary emergency room visits with a new policy starting July 1 that the American Hospital Association says will jeopardize patients’ health and threaten them with financial penalties.

Forward progress has been stopped on a wildfire that has destroyed homes in the small mining town of Bagdad, Arizona, and send hundreds fleeing.

Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.

A motorist died after faulty air bag inflators in their 2002 Honda Civic ruptured, Honda confirmed. It’s the 17th death in the US caused by a Takata air bag.

A peach recall has expanded to include loose peaches and peach products after 78 people were sickened in 12 states by salmonella poisoning linked to the fruit, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

As Hurricane Laura bears down on the Gulf Coast, residents are preparing for what could be a historic storm surge.

A train fire and derailment caused a partial collapse of a railroad bridge over Tempe Town Lake. The incident occurred around 6 a.m. Wednesday on the south side of the lake near Mill Avenue.

Think the risk of your home filling up with floodwater, magnified these days by climate change, is only an issue near the coasts and rivers? New research detailing nearly every corner of the U.S. shows otherwise.

Smoke continued to hang in the air Monday morning as firefighters mopped up hot spots after a huge fire destroyed a four-story apartment complex under construction in downtown Phoenix.

Scottsdale police said "millions of dollars in damages and theft" occurred in a late-night spasm of violence and looting at Scottsdale Fashion Square and surrounding businesses. The department said 12 people were arrested and booked into jail.