Southeast News for February 2013 BrickStreet Insurance Gives West Virginia University Record $4M Gift West Virginia Cites 45 Violations After 2 Deaths at Mine Alabama Looks to Limit Lawsuits Against Airbus Suppliers Insurers Split Over Proposed Changes to Florida Guaranty Fund Tennessee Court Reinstates Damages in Assisted Living Center Death ‘Devil’s Tooth Exorcism’ Results in $3.7M Claim Against Tennessee Church South Carolina Forest Plan Undergoing Revisions Wholesale Broker All Risks Promotes Thompson in Atlanta Kentucky Sheriff to Patrol Homes While Owners Away South Carolina Soldier Sues Over Mortgage Insurance Rate Alabama Court System Endangered by Budget Woes, Says Chief Justice Georgia Considers Electronic Auto Insurance Card Florida Surplus Lines Association Names New Executive Director Tennessee Reconsiders Requiring Concussion Policy for School Sports West Virginia Coal Mines Shut Down to Review Safety Following Deaths North Carolina Fails to Enforce Workers’ Compensation Mandate: Auditor Florida Senate Leader to Insurers: Where Are Savings from PIP Reforms? Kentucky School Insurance Trust Paid Royalties Prior to Failing No Damage to Florida Citrus Crop from Cold Snap Digital Insurance Buys North Carolina Benefit Broker BSD North Carolina Cuts Unemployment Benefits Florida’s Citizens Hires Peltier as Media Relations Manager Kentucky Develops Own Health Exchange MagMutual to Acquire South Carolina Physician Assurance Farmer Confirmed As South Carolina Insurance Commissioner North Carolina Agent, Farmer Sentenced for Crop Insurance Fraud Tennessee Gov. Haslam Nixes Health Exchange Partnership Alabama Weighs Grants for Wind-Proofing, Creation of Insurance Research Center U.S. Wants Gaylord’s Tennessee Flood Suit Against Army Corps Dismissed Insurer to Take 31,000 Commercial Wind Policies from Florida’s Citizens Christians-Only Medi-Share Could Be Back in Business in Kentucky West Virginia Still Weighing Health Exchange, Medicaid Options North Carolina Gov. McCrory Opposes State Run Health Exchange Coventry Insurance, Knightbrook to Offer Personal Articles Coverage in FL Mississippi’s Hattiesburg Suffers Significant Storm Damage How Identity Theft Ruined Alabama Victim’s Finances, Career Florida Lawmakers Unveil Property Reform Proposals Swett & Crawford Acquires Southern Hospitality Underwriters of Georgia Mississippi Insurance Chief Wants State-Run Health Exchange, Not Partnership Mississippi Court Stands by Ruling on Pre-Need Funeral Policies Florida Court Sides with Bank in Key Mortgage Liability Case West Virginia Revises Penalties for Mine Safety Violations Probe Finds Faulty Upkeep at Kentucky Plant Hit by Furnace Blast Alabama Warns Hundreds of Insurers to Register or Face Fine Exclusive Interview: North Carolina Commissioner Goodwin on Home, Auto Markets Gruenberg Joins Digital Benefit Advisors in Atlanta Tennessee’s Westan Insurance Joins Keystone North Carolina Man Jailed After 9th DWI Charge West Virginia Court Rules Negligent Mine Inspectors Can Be Sued Florida Nuclear Plant Being Shuttered Following Insurance Settlement MedMal Direct Expands into Georgia Workers’ Compensation Insurer MEMIC Expanding to Florida Digital Insurance Acquires Tennessee’s Capital Benefits Group Florida Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Breath Test Software Mississippi County Lets Fire Departments Charge Patients for Medical Response Florida Considers Partners for Health Insurance Exchange Florida Supreme Court Rules Arbitration Clauses Apply to Fraud Claims West Virginia Not Enforcing Mine Coal Dust Standards: Report Maritime Program Group Appoints Senior Broker in Florida Aon Appoints VP for Health, Benefits Practice in Atlanta Florida Report Cites Citizens’ Outside Vendors, Claims Handling Brown & Brown’s 2012 Q4 Profit Up 16.8% Georgia Insured Loss from Tornado Estimated at $75 Million Meningitis Victim’s Widow Sues Tennessee Clinic, Challenges Awards Cap Safety Rule on Methane in West Virginia Mines Stalled Tennessee Summit Addresses School Safety Kentucky Coal Company Sues Worker Who Filed Safety Complaints North Carolina Lawmakers Move to Halt State’s Health Exchange Georgia Assessing Storm Damage Southeast News Archives
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