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Report: Las Vegas No. 1, Phoenix Area No. 4 in Nation’s Auto Thefts
Oct 24 2007 // The Phoenix area has the nation’s fourth highest auto-theft rate, according to a recent National Insurance Crime Bureau report. Of the 54,849 vehicles that were stolen in Arizona in 2006, nearly 40,000 of them were...
Arizona Moves Closer to Ban on Texting While Driving
Sep 20 2007 // Phoenix City Council members want both hands on the wheel instead of texting and driving. The council is moving closer to becoming the first city in Arizona and among the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while...
Ariz. Field Inspections on Taxi Cabs Show Violations
Aug 24 2007 // About 20 percent of taxis pulled over by Arizona inspectors in the past 12 months failed at least one part of an inspection that ensures honest meter readings, licensed drivers, and safe and insured cabs. Department of...
HDR Offering Contractors Coverage in Calif., Ariz.
Jul 10 2007 // HDR Insurance Services of Sacramento, Calif., has a new market for commercial and residential contractors in California and Arizona. Coverage is available for general liability, auto, propoerty, and insland marine...
Ariz. high court to review product liability case
Jul 2 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally. At issue in State Farm Insurance v....
Arizona Supreme Court to Review Product Liability Case
Jun 27 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally. At issue in the case, State Farm...
Arizona Legislature Approves Bill to Hike Worker Benefits
Jun 27 2007 // Some Arizona employees hurt on the job could get higher workers’ compensation benefits under a bill approved by the Arizona House in a 57-0 vote. The bill (HB2195), which was approved by the Senate earlier in June,...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Arizona aims to raise workers’ compensation benefits limits Arizona is proposing to increase the caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job. Under a freshly rewritten...
Senate Approves Bill to Hike Arizona Workers’ Injury Benefits
Jun 13 2007 // The Arizona Senate approved a workers’ compensation bill to carry out a business-labor compromise to increase Arizona’s caps on benefits received by employees who are hurt on the job. The Senate’s 24-2...
Compromise Would Boost Ariz. Workers’ Injury Benefits
Jun 11 2007 // A business-labor compromise that emerged at the Arizona Legislature would increase Arizona’s caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job. Under a freshly rewritten...
Former Owner of Ariz. Towing Company Sues for Defamation
May 29 2007 // The former owner of an embattled towing company in Mesa, Ariz., is suing an insurance company for defamation and $10 million in damages. Lee Watkins is refuting a claim that Cactus Towing was one of several Phoenix-area...
Porter Joins U.S. Risk in Ariz.
May 22 2007 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group, a privately held managing general agent and wholesale broker has hired Marti Porter as an underwriter for PL Pros, the professional liability division of its U.S. Risk Underwriters...
My New Markets
May 21 2007 // Errors & Omissions, Agents Nuts & Bolts: Insurance agents and brokers now have access to errors and omissions coverage, through Swiss Re’s Commercial insurance market. Swiss Re announced the launch of a...
Legislators aim to crack down on fraud
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion. California Capones Modern-day...
Legislators aim to crack down on fraud
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion. California Capones Modern-day...
Ariz. Bill to Raise Burden of Proof on ER Suits Fails in House
May 18 2007 // The Arizona House has narrowly rejected a medical malpractice bill that would have made it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice. The bill was the only major piece of malpractice...
News Currents
May 7 2007 // Ariz. Governor Napolitano signs captive insurance law Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has signed HB2294, Captive Insurer Amendments, updating Arizona’s captive insurance law. The amendments will be effective 90...
Fraud Roundup
May 7 2007 // Calif. State Fund to receive $46,000 Imperial Valley, Calif., County Superior Court Judge Poli Flores has ordered an employee of an El Centro, Calif., hay exporter to pay $45,996 in restitution to the State Compensation...
Ariz. Offers Insurance Resources for Small Businesses
May 3 2007 // The Arizona Department of Insurance (ADOI) is offering the state’s small business owners insurance curriculum on its online “insurance university, Insure U for Small Business. Six categories of small business...
Ariz. Governor Napolitano Signs Captive Insurance Law
Apr 30 2007 // Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has signed HB2294, Captive Insurer Amendments, updating Arizona’s captive insurance law. The amendments will be effective 90 days after the legislative session adjourns. The new...
