West News for July 2011 Montana Reminds Farmers to Buy Hail Insurance Gordon Joins California’s Poms As Account Executive Disaster Aid for Montana Approved Insurance Pays $55 Million for New Mexico Freeze Alaskan Highway Deaths Up This Year California Man Gets 70-Month Prison Term for Insurance Fraud Contractor Will Not Increase Fund for LA Train Crash Victims Insurance Co. and Colorado Farmers Settle Fraud Claim All Risks’ Quick Quoting Division Adds Western Contractor Market Idaho City Appeals Ruling over City Hall Construction Flaws Western Insurance Agents Association Names New Chair N.M. Snowstorm Cost $55 Million in Gas Claims Sacramento NAIW Group Names Award Winners Alaska Joins State Surplus Lines Coalition Oregon Class held on Workers’ Comp for Harbor Workers Federal Court Says Nevada Cannot Block Risk Retention Groups California Updates Pure Premium Rates Filing Process California WC Appeals Board Takes Back Physician Ruling Wyoming Flooding Designated Major Disaster GEICO Reduces Auto Rates in California Moody’s Affirms California Earthquake Authority Bonds SullivanCurtisMonroe Hires New VP in Irvine Feds to Review Idaho Health Insurance Rate Hikes Poll Says Washington Drivers Do Not Know Left-Lane Law Auto-Glass Installer Sentenced in $1.6 Million Insurance Fraud Nevada Joins Multistate Insurance Tax Sharing Plan Farmers, CEO Honored for Work with City of Hope Hospital Hailstorms Result in 50,000 Claim Filings in Colorado, Wyoming Idaho Insurance Department Names Donovan Deputy Director California Surplus Lines Bill Signed Into Law Lawsuit Filed Over Continental Airlines Crash at Denver Airport U.S. Judge Permits Toyota Appeal in California Direct-Link Acquires Coachella Valley Insurance Services NIF Group Launches Nursery, Garden Center Program Moran Named to California Workers’ Compensation Administrator Post Alaska Repeat Drunk Driver Seeks Retrial Due to Ad Hawaii Blowhole Death Raises Liability Questions California Workers’ Comp Veteran Havlick Dies L.A. Escapes ‘Carmageddon’ as Drivers Stay Home MJ Insurance Adds Shultz as Producer in Phoenix Oregon Firefigher’s Family Sues City Over His Suicide Judge Says $200M Los Angeles Train Cash Award Falls Short Probe Into Montana Oil Spill Cause to Take Months Cheyenne Hail Damage Could Reach Millions BP Reports Alaskan Oil Pipeline Leak Idaho Insurance Regulator Jumps to Industry Insurance Charitable Foundation Supports 10 More California Groups What Does Insurance Industry Contribute to California’s Economy? Utah Parents Sue Police, City Over Son’s Shooting Death Report Finds Washington Health Care Workers Often Victims of Violence Fourth Abuse Suit Filed Against Washington Diocese More Funds Sought for California Train Crash Victims Calif. Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Helmets on Slopes Calif. Workers’ Comp Loss and Expense Payments Increase Nearly 3% Wash. Workers’ Comp Prescription Drug Costs Among the Lowest B&B Premier Insurance Adds Thayer as Broker-Agent MetLife Auto Stands By GM Auto Insurance Deal Mercury General to Report Q2 Results on August 1 Agents Question GM Free Car Insurance Deal With MetLife Auto Calif. Commissioner Pegs $32M to Fight Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud Nonresident Workers in California Are Subject to California Overtime Zurich Relocates SoCal Office to Los Angeles Oregon Regulator Miller Joins National Insurance Producer Registry California Workers’ Comp Doctors Take Aim at State Fund Contract California Completes Majestic Insurance Transfer to AmTrust Freeway Insurance Names Waked CEO, Klaeb Chairman MiniCo Adds Aspen American as Self-Storage Insurance Provider Arrowhead General Insurance Receives Marketing Awards Farmers Insurance to Pay $1.5M in Labor Settlement Rustand Joins Crest Insurance Group California Court Expands Policyholders’ Right to Sue Insurers GM to Pay Insurance for Car Buyers in Washington, Oregon California Jury Blames Family for Fire That Destroyed Einstein Papers California Bill Regulating Health Insurance Rates Passes Committee With Wildfires Contained, Arizona Shifts to Thwarting Summer Floods Alaska Plans Large-Scale Disaster Drill Exxon Says 40 Montana Properties Damaged by Oil Spill Sutika Joins BB&T Insurance Services of Orange County Arizona Insurance Agent Finds His Fun, and Second Business, in Guns Aquino Returns to Swett & Crawford as Broker Freeway Names Waked CEO; Klaeb to Serve as Chairman Feds to Require Safety Plan for Restart of Exxon’s Montana Pipeline Exxon Spill on Yellowstone River Disrupts Montana Ranches California Workers’ Compensation Law Draws Scrutiny with NFL Case U.S. Risk Insurance Group Names Zechlin Senior Broker Exxon Claims Mont. Oil Spill Damage Limited, Gov. Doubtful Montana Reviewing Pipeline Safety Following Exxon Spill Hawaii Regulator Orders Homeowners Insurers to File New Rates 76 File Workers’ Comp Appeals in Oregon McKenna Insurance Changes Name to BasePoint Insurance West News Archives
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