On average, the number of Texans hit by cars spikes 23.3 percent during Halloween week, according to Allstate Insurance Company. The insurer recently looked at its Texas auto insurance claims involving pedestrians over the past five years and found a …
The Republican-led Michigan Senate has killed legislation that would have banned auto insurers from considering where a driver lives when setting rates. Democrats say the practice is unfair to motorists who pay higher premiums in urban areas even if they …
The state watchdog says the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers is out $20 million because of problems with its prescription drug program. Inspector General Tom Charles says the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) failed to take steps to recover …
Two Southern California men who were arrested on Oct. 15 for workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Orange County. The state Insurance Commissioner, Steve Poizner, said that Sanjiv Mahendra Shah, 53, of Placentia and Abu M. Hossain, 59, of Chino Hills …
Homeowners Choice, Inc. reports it has been selected as the replacement home insurer for policyholders of American Keystone Insurance Co., which was placed into receivership earlier this month. All of American Keystone’s approximately 5,500 homeowners’ policies are scheduled for cancellation …
Gales Creek Insurance Services is pleased to announce that their Commercial Lines Manager, Kim Hutchinson, has become a partner in the agency. Kim has been with Gales Creek since 1999, handling national program business and overseeing the implementation of agency …
California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that a year-long investigation by California Department of Insurance detectives has resulted in eight arrests and the dismantling of a staged automobile collision ring. “Criminals that engage in staged auto collisions seek monetary gain …
The New York Insurance Department has signed a cooperation agreement with its counterpart in El Salvador, the latest in a string of similar agreements with insurance regulators in foreign countries. The agreement calls for increased cooperation on insurance-related issues between …
Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient’s hand, the hospital’s fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007. Hospital President Timothy Babineau said in a letter that the mistake Thursday …
Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is moving forward on rebuilding facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina after four years of “moving in quicksand.” Officials settled with Zurich Insurance Co. in August over extensive storm damage incurred on its Poplarville …
