Latest Arizona Headlines
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Arizona Bill Banning Texting While Driving Dies in Senate
Mar 3 2010 // The Arizona Senate in an 11-11 vote failed to pass a bill that would have banned texting on a cell phone while driving. If it had passed, SB 1334 would have imposed fines of $50 for from operating a motor vehicle on a...
Arizona Auto Rates Increased 2% in Past 6 Months
Feb 26 2010 // The median six-month auto insurance rate in Arizona has increased approximately 2 percent over the past six months to reach $829 according to InsWeb, an online insurance comparison provider. Among the other statistics the...
American Family Insurance Cuts Arizona Auto Rates 5.9%
Feb 23 2010 // American Family Mutual Insurance Co. is lowering Arizona auto insurance rates by an average of 5.9 percent starting March 1, saving its Arizona auto insurance customers $13.7 million, the Madison, Wis.-based insurer...
Arizona Mulls Shutting Insurance Fraud Unit
Jan 10 2010 // With a $2 billion state budget deficit looming, Arizona may become the first state in the country to abolish the anti-fraud unit of its Department of Insurance. Should Arizona do that, insurance rates in the state could...
Arizona Insurance Council Elects 2010 Officers
Dec 30 2009 // The Arizona Insurance Council (AIC) has elected new officers for 2010. New officers are: President Brett Clausen, Arizona business unit vice president for Farm Bureau Financial Services; Vice President Kerry Hayden,...
Arizona Mulls Shutting Insurance Fraud Unit
Dec 18 2009 // With a $2 billion state budget deficit looming, Arizona may become the first state in the country to abolish the anti-fraud unit of its Department of Insurance. Should Arizona do that, insurance rates in the state could...
Arizona Announces Hot Dog Slip-and-Fall Arrest
Dec 9 2009 // The Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit and the Mesa Police say they arrested two suspects this week accused of staging a slip-and-fall accident for insurance money, using the unlikely prop of a hot dog. Authorities...
Arizona A.G. Wants Explanation from Health Net
Nov 23 2009 // Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants a Connecticut-based insurance company to tell Arizona policyholders whether their personal, medical or financial information was lost or stolen in a security breach six months...
Arizona Wrangles with $2 Billion Shortfall
Nov 19 2009 // Arizona legislators began a special session Tuesday mostly aimed at reducing the state’s $2 billion budget shortfall but also to resolve issues related to foreclosures and research funding. The House and Senate...
Arizona County Weighs Photo Traffic Fee
Nov 5 2009 // Members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are holding a hearing Wednesday to discuss adding a $20 fee to photo enforcement tickets issued by the Department of Public Safety. Drivers who fail to pay their photo...
Arizona Fines Aetna for Multiple Violations
Nov 4 2009 // The Arizona Department of Insurance has fined Aetna Life Insurance Company and Aetna Health, Inc., after examination of their practices exposed multiple violations of Arizona insurance laws. The department has ordered the...
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...
