West News for December 2009

• Former New Mexico Insurance Regulator’s Convictions Upheld
• Idaho Insurance Department Seeks Senior Financial Examiner
• Washington Not Increasing Minimum Wage in 2010
• Arizona Insurance Council Elects 2010 Officers
• Levees Beneath Threatened Washington Dam Called Weak
• Oregon Enhances Death Benefits for Fatal Worker Injuries
• White Sutton & Company Insurance Adds Assistant Account Executive
• Idaho Launches New Health Coverage Denial Appeal Process
• Washington Touts Saving Public $300 Million for Personal Insurance
• Wyoming Says Transportation Projects Saved $20 Million
• California Stamping Fee Increasing to 0.25% in February
• California’s Poizner Follows Through on Campaign Donation
• Washington Man Sues Idaho Over Pothole
• Nevada Probes Allegations of Shoddy Work on Bridge
• Utah Insurance Web Site Not Helping
• S. California Agent In Jail for Pocketing Premium
• Oregon Announces Insurance Aid for Laid Off Workers
• Oregon Woman Killed in Nursing Home Fire
• PacWest Joined by Eureka-Based Group
• Washington Keeps Auto Rate Down $26 Million
• WKF&C Agency Offers New Habitational Package Policy
• Nevada Approves Captive for NV Energy
• New Mexico Spaceport Wants Liability Protection Bill
• Farmers Appoints New Southwest Field Operations Executive
• Scientists Update California Tsunami Maps
• Washington Auto Glass Installer Pleads to Insurance Fraud
• Former Agent in S. California Arrested for Identity Theft
• Arizona Mulls Shutting Insurance Fraud Unit
• Six Factors Create Volatility in Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurance Market
• Report Says Seattle Dam Threatens $30 Billion Worth of Property
• California Commissioner Sends Out Warning of Elderly Scams
• Insurance Skills Center Names Segale President
• Western Security Surplus Relocates Pasadena Headquarters
• Illinois Agent Admits Stalking ESPN’s Andrews
• Los Angeles-Area Agent Convicted of Identity Theft
• Workers’ Comp Insurer HIH Hawaii Liquidated
• Abram Interstate Insurance Offers Salon, Barber Shop Product
• Allstate to Auction Recovered 1965 Volkswagen Van
• Montana Makes Morgan Stanley Pay Back $42 Million
• Momentous Insurance Creates Sports Division
• Earthquake Early Warning System Possible
• Hawaii Drought Earns Disaster Area Designation
• California Arrests Utah Man for Preying on the Elderly
• Colorado Blog Calls Attention to Workers’ Comp Depression
• Wells Fargo Appoints San Francisco Broker
• Southern California Storms End Undramatically
• Union General Insurance Offers Apartments Coverage
• California’s Insurance Executive Bannister Dies
• Poizner Fronts Governor Campaign $15 Million
• California Commissioner Asks Farmers to Review Insurance
• Fresno Agent Arrested for Auto Insurance Embezzlement
• RAND Says California Must Address Workers’ Comp Volatility
• Heffernan Insurance brokers Names Feliciano VP in Los Angeles
• Two New Mexico Counties Get Disaster Aid
• Fire Danger Eases in Southern California
• California Workers’ Comp Insurers Ask for Average 4 Percent
• Montana Hail Board Approves Refunds
• Arizona Announces Hot Dog Slip-and-Fall Arrest
• IMA Hires Sustr as an Employee Benefits Account Executive
• Oregon Fines Farmers Over Re-Rating
• Idaho Tells Consumers to Consider Accident Forgiveness
• S. California Agent Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Theft Case
• Washington Commissioner Wins National Consumer Award
• Los Angeles-area’s Steve Brooks and Tri County Merge
• Willis Chairman Plumeri Asserts Risks Have Changed
• California Agent Guilty of $48,207 Theft from Clients
• Study Says Increased WC Benefits Lengthens Claim Duration
• Southern California Firm Hires Three
• Southern-California Man Sentenced for Pet Insurance Theft
• Nevada Could See 7.6% Reduction in Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
• Reno Agent Pleads Guilty to Writing Fake Policies
• Colorado Man Guilt of $21 Million Ponzi Scheme
• Colorado Transportation Officials Help the Inebriated
• Washington Warns Green Valley Residents about Flood Insurance
• Lawson-Hawks Acquires J6 Insurance Services
• Oregon Proposes Rules for Producers, Crop Insurance Claims Adjusters
• NAS Insurance Enhances Medical Malpractice Coverage
• Venbrook Insurance Adds Three to Staff
• Union General Insurance Offers Market for Residential Care Facilities
• Idaho Insurance Department Cautions Producers Against Free Services
• SullivanCurtisMonroe Names O’Connor Vice President
• California’s Poizner to Subpoena Companies Over Iran Divestment
• Washington Domestic Partner Law Goes Into Effect
• Washington Rates Workers’ Compensation Rate
• U.S. Considers Night Flying to Fight Fires
• Study: Workers’ Comp Claim Duration Increases as Benefits Go Up
• California’s Poizner Wants Insurance Money Out of Iran
• New Mexico Wildfire Danger is High

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