Latest Arizona Headlines
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UA Research: Risk of Flooding in Arizona Not As Severe as Estimated
Nov 14 2005 // Up to 29,000 Arizonans paid for insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program in fiscal year 2004, but new research shows that many of these people may not need the costly coverage. A study headed by a University of...
ARIZONA AUTO INSURANCE RATES RISING
Nov 7 2005 // Automobile ins-urance costs in Arizona are on the rise and remain on the high side nationally. The average rate has gone up 16.6 percent in Arizona in the latest five-year measurement, although the increase is lower than...
Business Moves
Nov 6 2005 // Hull and Co. Opens Scottsdale, Ariz., Office, Adds Staff Hull & Co. Inc. has announced it has opened a new location and added a new staff to serve the state of Arizona. The office is replacing the E&S Brokerage...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // California CDI Amends Proposed “Action Notice” Filing Regulations The California Department of In-surance has deleted a section of proposed regulations that would have required insurers to notify CDI when a...
OneBeacon Grows Personal Insurance Operations with Houston General
Nov 2 2005 // OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., has entered into an agreement with Houston General Insurance Exchange to offer auto, homeowners and packaged solutions outside...
Moody Adds Personal Lines Executive
Oct 28 2005 // Moody Insurance Agency, which specializes in insurance, risk management and bonding services for contractors, has marked the expansion of its growing personal insurance lines department with the addition of Vanessa...
ACE USA Opens Seattle, Colorado, Arizona Offices
Oct 25 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has opened Seattle, Colorado and Arizona branch offices. Maureen Amant has joined ACE USA as Seattle branch manager. Anne Nadler, who has...
California and Arizona Agents Finally Have a Choice. Softech Announces its MVR Integration with the FSC Rater.
Oct 13 2005 // Softech International announces the launch of a new web-based MVR interface within the FSC Insurance Solutions comparative rater. This interface will allow insurance agents to order motor vehicle reports without having to...
The artisan contractors market on the rise
Oct 3 2005 // As the United States’ total population creeps up on the 300 million mark, no one can call the residential construction industry a dying breed. The continuous need for housing is apparent in the nation’s fastest...
Experts Warn Ariz. Residents Against Buying ‘Flood Cars’ for Sale
Sep 15 2005 // Experts are warning that thousands of used cars and trucks that were under water in New Orleans are expected to hit Arizona used-car lots and street corners in coming months. These vehicles are usually...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // NAMIC ENCOURAGES RATE MODERNIZATION IN HAWAII: The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has told a Hawaii legislative committee that passing rate modernization laws would benefit state commerce and insurance...
ARIZ. RULING MAY THREATEN WORKPLACE SAFETY:
Sep 5 2005 // The Arizona Supreme Court has invalidated what the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America believes was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments, according to PCI...
PCI Says Ariz. Court Ruling Threatens Workplace Safety
Aug 18 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court in David C. Grammatica v. Arizona Industrial Commission has invalidated what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to...
Ariz. Healthcare Insurers to Have Physician Rating Program
Aug 5 2005 // Two of Arizona’s largest health insurers are rolling out programs that will rate physicians, and patients could get cheaper co-payments if they choose doctors who receive high marks for both quality of care and cost...
Ariz. County to Receive Nearly $20K in Class-Action Settlement
Jul 21 2005 // Yuma County, Arizona, will receive nearly $20,000 as its share of an $850 million class-action settlement with MMC Inc., a global insurance brokerage firm that was at the heart of an insurance scandal last year. The Board...
Ariz. MDs Group Moves Closer to Ballot Campaign on Med-Mal
Jun 27 2005 // A statewide group representing physicians is gearing up for a possible multimillion-dollar initiative campaign aimed at helping doctors burdened by rising costs for medical malpractice insurance. The Arizona Medical...
Arizona Wildfire Grows; Firefighters Gaining on California Blaze That Destroyed 6 Homes
Jun 23 2005 // A number of multimillion-dollar homes were in danger of falling Thursday in Arizona as firefighters for another day did battle with a wildfire that was threatening an area some 20 miles from Phoenix. Officials said some...
New Ariz. Hangar Permits May Require Tenants to Purchase Insurance
Jun 8 2005 // The Flagstaff, Ariz. City Council will consider changes to the monthly permits issued to tenants of city-owned hangars that could require them to buy liability insurance to cover the facilities and name the city on the...
Arizona Homeowners Sue Insurers Over Wildfire
Jun 6 2005 // Homeowners from a vacation mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire. Seventy...
Business Moves
Jun 6 2005 // National Advantage Ins. Services Now Writing In Arizona Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. recently announced that it has been appointed and approved for writing several insurance products in...
