The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that disaster assistance has been made available for 23 additional Georgia counties to help local governments rebuild public property damaged by Tropical Storm Frances. Michael …
The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. The lawsuit, filed today in Oklahoma County District Court, …
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 21 to consider two workers’compensation filings submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) on behalf of the state’s workers compensation insurers. NCCI’s filings for …
Many insurance companies are waiving additional deductibles for people who’ve suffered losses from more than one hurricane. Hurricane Jeanne’s path poses the grim prospect of triple insurance deductibles for people who were hit first by Charley and Frances, but the …
With more than half of Florida’s 17 million residents directly affected by Hurricane Charley and Hurricane Frances, the Florida Farm Bureau (FFB) Insurance Companies is using geographic information system (GIS) satellite-mapping technology to analyze the thousands of claims it is …
State and insurance industry officials agree that the quartet of storms that slammed into Florida will likely surpass Hurricane Andrew, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Officials say the combined damage could exceed $20 billion in insured losses, and …
Rhode Island Fire Marshal Irving Owens’ office has struggled with deadlines for stringent fire-safety measures approved after a deadly West Warwick nightclub fire. Owens’ five-year term ran out in July and one of his employees, Deputy Marshal Anthony Marsella, wants …
Insurance companies being sued by the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese are seeking a delay in the trial until the state Supreme Court rules whether the diocese must pay $1 million in punitive damages for not properly dealing with a priest accused …
Following a 10 percent increase in fees last year, the Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Fund (USTIF) Board has unanimously agreed to maintain fees for owners of underground storage tanks licensed in Pennsylvania for 2005. “An actuarial analysis showed that USTIF …
Details of the settlement of a lawsuit between the town of Rhinelander, Wis., and General Casualty Insurance Cos. over cleanup of a former city landfill were released Friday after an open records lawsuit. The Sun Prairie, Wis.-based insurer paid $865,000 …
