Latest Arizona Headlines
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Arizona Man Sentenced for Town House Arson
Oct 22 2009 // A Phoenix man has been sentenced to 101/2 years in prison followed by three years probation for setting fire to his rented town house in 2007. Prosecutors say 55-year-old Robert Stuart Reed endangered the lives of 12...
Arizona Officials Add Charges Against Former Representative
Oct 12 2009 // Federal prosecutors in Arizona have added several new charges to their public corruption indictment against former Rep. Rick Renzi. Renzi pleaded not guilty to the new insurance fraud counts through his attorney during a...
Arizona Has Big Decline in Auto Theft
Oct 7 2009 // Thefts of cars and trucks in the Phoenix area are down 33 percent over last few years according to law enforcement and insurance industry experts. Roughly 55,300 cars, trucks and motorcycles were stolen in 2004, compared...
Arizona DUI Crackdown Nets Hundreds
Sep 8 2009 // An Arizona task force targeting drunken drivers netted 780 arrests in a little less than 2 weeks as it prepared for the Labor Day weekend. The statewide task force began on Aug. 21 and ended Monday. Of those arrested, 266...
Older Arizonans Still Behind the Wheel
Aug 24 2009 // Once a week, Arizonan Ruthie Culver steps into her golf cart and drives the 3 miles or so from her home to Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City, where she volunteers. If it’s raining, she gets behind the wheel...
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Aug 3 2009 // Teresa Miller was appointed administrator of Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division. Miller joined the Insurance Division in July 2008 and has been serving as acting administrator...
Arizona Passes Law to Verify Auto Insurance
Jul 30 2009 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill designed to reduce the number of uninsured motorists on the road. HB2224 requires that a driver that has a third or subsequent violation within three years for not...
Colorado Casualty Appoints Irving to Regional VP for Arizona
Jul 29 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., announced the appointment of Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which...
Arizona Agent/Broker Association Appoints Goble State National Director
Jul 28 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Arizona Inc. (IIAB of Arizona) has appointed Steve R. Goble from The Mahoney Group in Mesa, Ariz., as its state national director. Goble replaces Roberta Hoffman, who has...
Arizona Governor Signs Bill on Medical Malpractice Suits
Jul 13 2009 // Arizona is making it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice. Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill approved by the Legislature to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Arizona Department of Insurance Narrowly Missed Shutdown
Jun 30 2009 // Due to ongoing budget negotiations, Arizona’s Department of Insurance faced a potential shut-down on July 1, 2009. That meant the services the DOI provides, including customer service and licensing, would have been...
Ariz. Senate OKs ER Medical Malpractice Bill
Jun 26 2009 // The Arizona Senate has voted to make it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice. The Senate’s 21-8 vote approving a bill to raise the required burden of proof for claims of...
Arizona Senate Considers Stricter Child Passenger Restraint System Laws
Jun 18 2009 // The Arizona Senate is considering beefing up the state’s child restraint system laws, to have older children ride in booster seats. According to SB 1050, existing law prohibits transporting children under five years...
SCF Arizona President An Arizona “Most Admired” CEO
Jun 18 2009 // Phoenix-based SCF Arizona President & CEO Smith has been named one of Arizona’s “Most Admired CEOs” by a local business paper. SCF Arizona is the state’s largest workers’ compensation...
Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Workers’ Comp Fund Raid
Jun 4 2009 // The Arizona Supreme Court has turned away a legal challenge to the state’s budget-balancing move to take $4.6 million paid into a special workers’ compensation insurance fund. The Supreme Court declined to...
Ratings: Rep. Western, Workmen’s Auto, Farmers Union, Town and Country, Sequoia, No. Am. Casualty
May 26 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to ‘B+’ (Good) from ‘B’ (Fair) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “bbb-” from “bb” of Arizona-based Republic Western...
SCF Arizona Board Approves $10 Million Dividend
May 21 2009 // SCF Arizona’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved a $10 million dividend for 2008 to qualified policyholders. The Arizona workers’ compensation insurer said SCF the dividend payout marks 38 straight...
Arizona Governor Names Patrick to Arizona Workers’ Comp Insurer Board
May 20 2009 // Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has named Judith A. Patrick chair of the Board of Directors of SCF Arizona, the state’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance. Patrick becomes the first woman appointed...
2009 Fire Season Outlook Identifies Few Areas of Concern
May 18 2009 // Forecasts Normal to Below Normal Potential Across Most of the West Northern California, where nearly a million acres burned last summer, is poised to possibly be another hotspot for wildfire activity in 2009, according to...
Arizona Wildfire Budgets About the Same as Last Year
May 13 2009 // Not much may seem recession-proof these days, but budgets for preventing and fighting wildfires nationally and in Arizona have stayed largely the same for the past five years. That much is good news for firefighting...
