Latest Alaska Headlines
All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ark. Work Comp Commission Gets New Labor Representative
Jan 16 2007 // Philip Alan Hood on Jan.9, 2007, was named by Gov. Mike Beebe as the labor representative for the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, AWCC announced. He was appointed by the governor to a six-year term after...
Ark. Work Comp Commission Adds Electronic Notice for Claim Contacts
Jan 12 2007 // Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Form announced that its form A-110, the paper document used for decades to notify insurer representatives of new cases at the AWCC, has been replaced by electronic...
Ark. Lawsuit Accuses Propane Supplier of Negligence in Blast
Jan 10 2007 // The wife of a man severely burned in an explosion three years ago at Detco Industries Inc. in Conway, Ark., has sued the plant’s supplier of propane gas, saying the supplier didn’t properly inspect Detco or...
Ark. Town put on Federal Notice Over Flood-Plain Management
Jan 9 2007 // The city of Malvern, Ark., could face costly consequences if it doesn’t address concerns the Federal Emergency Management Agency has with how the city manages flood-plain property. FEMA has put the city on notice and...
Ark. starts insurance plan for low-income workers
Jan 8 2007 // Enrollment began Dec. 20, 2006, in Arkansas for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to 80,000 low-income workers. The Associated Press reported that health officials hope the...
Ark. starts insurance plan for low-income workers
Jan 7 2007 // Enrollment began Dec. 20, 2006, in Arkansas for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to 80,000 low-income workers. The Associated Press reported that health officials hope the...
Ark. Joins Court Filing on Credit Scoring
Dec 28 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced the Arkansas Insurance Department has joined with twelve other states filing a brief supporting a case brought by consumers against the insurance...
Alaska Firm Convicted in Worker’s Death Pardoned by Former Governor
Dec 26 2006 // A company convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of one of its workers, killed in an avalanche in 1999, was pardoned by former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski just days before leaving office. Gary Stone, a...
Commissioners, compensation rules, earthquakes made for shaky ground
Dec 25 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – West
Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Ark. Starts Insurance Program for Low-Income Workers
Dec 22 2006 // Low-income workers without health insurance are the targets of a new program announced by Arkansas officials. Enrollment began Dec. 20 for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to...
Alaska Man Guilty of Reinstating Policy Before Reporting Accident
Dec 14 2006 // An Alaska man has pled guilty to theft in the second degree, a class B felony, stemming from a fraudulent insurance claim, according to the state Division of Insurance Office of Special Prosecution and Appeals. Earlier...
Legislator Would ban Cell Phone use by Drivers in Ark.
Dec 13 2006 // An Arkansas state senator wants the state to force drivers to hang up their cell phones while driving – or at least own a hands-free device that would allow them to do so. Sen. Kim Hendren filed two competing...
Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest
Dec 11 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest
Dec 10 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Ark. Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Nov 27 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman reported that Carolyn Dixon, the owner of Dixon Insurance in Pocahontas, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to two counts of Insurance Fraud (Class D felony) and one...
Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Updating 2007 Kids’ Chance Application
Nov 21 2006 // Kids’ Chance of Arkansas Inc. is revising the 2007 application for its annual scholarships, the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported. The application will be available online by mid-January. These...
Fine Appointed as Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Judge
Nov 20 2006 // O. Milton Fine II, a longtime attorney on Gov. Mike Huckabee’s staff, is the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest Administrative Law Judge, the AWCC reported. The AWCC is administrator of...
