Yearly Archives: 2004

MD. COUNTIES BILL FOR FIREFIGHTING:

Firefighters around the country are increasingly billing victims for putting out flames despite resistance from those who say such fees...

MED MAL COSTS HARM MD. ECONOMY:

While Gov. Robert Ehrlich, House Speaker Michael Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller were struggling to come up...

PA. RENEWS SUBSIDY FOR DOCS:

Subsidies to 30,000 doctors and health care providers who pay into a state-run program that provides catastrophic medical malpractice insurance...

INSURERS LAUD PA. SESSION:

The 2003-04 session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly adjourned in the early hours of Nov. 21 to conclude what the...

AGENT NOW N.J. GOVERNOR:

Richard J. Codey, long time Democratic legislator and local independent insurance agent in his West Orange community, has become New...

N.J. TRIES TO BEAT BLACK ICE:

New Jersey transportation officials are testing a new system aimed at melting black ice, the invisible layer that can send...

STATE FARM RE-ENTERS N.J.:

State Farm Indemnity Company and the Department of Banking and Insurance have reached an agreement allowing for the insurer’s re-entry...

N.Y. TO REVIEW AUTO RATES:

New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio, citing steep declines in insurer losses as a result of successful fraud fighting,...