Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...

Admit it. You think about it every time you step foot in an ocean. Too many viewings of Jaws or Sharknado, maybe. Or it could simply be in our DNA. Whatever the reason, the anxiety persists: Is a ...

If you’re getting serious about saving for retirement, you’re probably starting to see it as a numbers game. It’s a game in which you need to put away a certain amount of money every month in order to ...

NORFOLK, Va. — According to the Storm Prediction Center, the U.S. averages over 1,200 tornadoes each year. Although tornadoes can happen at any time of the year, peak tornado season typically occurs ...

Many people are unaware that there's often only a two-minute window to escape when a home fire occurs, making it the most common disaster across the United States. According to the American Red Cross, ...

There are over 5 million car accidents in the U.S. each year. The number of accidents decreased by 22% between 2019 and 2020, and the number of people injured per year decreased by 17% to 2.3 million.

The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the U.S. construction landscape, though homebuilding throughout the U.S. appears to be on a more stable trajectory now. The business of building isn’t exactly ...

A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is ...

House Democrats are moving forward with a bill that would enact new restrictions on guns. During a recent hearing, Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona said that the bill would fail to reduce crime ...

Google processes more than 5 trillion searches per year. This is the first time Google has publicly shared such a figure since 2016, when the company confirmed it was handling “more than 2 trillion” ...