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Over 900 Fraud Cases Reported in S.C. in 2002
Jan 27 2003 // Courts in South Carolina ordered nearly $168,000 in fines and restitution to be paid in 2002, the result of the 914 cases of insurance fraud that were reported to Office of the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud...
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Jan 27 2003 // Gerald Boiner, 30, of Rancho Cuca-monga, Calif., was arrested Nov. 12, 2002 by CDI Fraud Investigators. Boiner alleged that he injured his back and wrist on Aug. 7, 2001, from an on-the-job fall. As a result of the pain he...
Progressive Debuts First Motorcycle, ATV, RV and Boat Claims Training Center
Jan 23 2003 // Ohio-based Progressive announced the opening of two new expanded auto insurance claims training facilities and the industry’s first center dedicated to training representatives to handle motorcycle, ATV, RV, boat and...
First Floridian Auto & Home Offers Identity Theft Coverage
Jan 22 2003 // First Floridian Auto and Home Insurance Company of Tampa now offers Identity Fraud Expense Coverage in Florida. According to the company First Floridian homeowners and tenants policyholders can be covered for expenses...
CDI Makes Progress on Fraud Activity
Jan 22 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch announced these recent developments in insurance fraud cases: ·Preliminary hearing decision of the San Diego Superior Court...
NAII Requests Texas Supreme Court Halt Expansion of Auto Coverage
Jan 21 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) and Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) have filed an amicus brief asking the Texas Supreme Court to review and reverse a 9th Texas Court of...
NJ Governor McGreevey Outlines Auto Reform Plans in State Of The State Address
Jan 15 2003 // New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. James McGreevey received plaudits from the insurance industry following his remarks in his “State of the State” address that he would vigorously pursue reforms in the auto...
PIANY Tells NY Legislators of Need for Auto and Labor Law Reform
Jan 14 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York held its first legislative meeting of the year last Thursday, and addressed two major issues on which they want members of the Senate and Assembly to take action during the...
Fireman’s Fund Seeks 10 Percent Auto Discount in Mass.
Jan 14 2003 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced that it plans to file a request with the Massachusetts Division of Insurance to give a 10 percent discount to its best private passenger automobile customers in the...
LIBERTY MUTUAL AUTO RATE CHANGE APPROVED IN NEVADA
Jan 13 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman has approved a rate change for private passenger automobile insurance filed by Liberty Mutual Group. The statewide average change of -0.3 percent for Liberty Mutual Fire...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Ariz. DOI Fines State National $110,00 for Auto Violations
Jan 10 2003 // The Arizona Department of Insurance ordered State National Insurance Company to cease and desist from violating auto insurance laws on Dec. 10, 2002. The Department of Insurance conducted an examination of the automobile...
Body Shop Owner & Accomplice Arrested for Fraud, Grand Theft
Jan 6 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of Mike I. Masarweh, 36, owner of All Pro Mechanicx, a San Francisco auto repair...
Pain in Knee Caused by Shotgun Pellets, Not Trailer Crash
Dec 25 2002 // After a woman’s car rear-ended a trash trailer on the side of the road in Houston, an ambulance arrived on the scene to find Ronald J. Dawson sprawled nearby in the grass. He claimed that the trailer had knocked him...
N.J. Insurance Dept. to Investigate Insurers’ Refusal to Sell Basic Policies
Dec 24 2002 // New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke has ordered an investigation into the refusal of auto insurers to sell the state’s Basic Policy, a low-cost plan mandated by law since 1998. The Commissioner’s...
21st Century Says A.M. Best Reaffirmed Ratings
Dec 24 2002 // 21st Century Holding Company, a vertically integrated financial services holding company headquartered in Plantation, Fla, announced today that AM Best reaffirmed ratings for Federated National Insurance Company (rated...
N.Y. Man Sentenced for Running Auto Chop Shop
Dec 20 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Ernest Varacalli, 58, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison and 3 years probation and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution to insurance...
Franchised Truck Dealer/GL
Dec 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Myers Benner Corporation is offering a program for franchised truck dealers/garage liability. Available on a brokerage basis. Programs include package, inventory, workers’ comp and...
PIANY Urges Legislative Action on Auto Insurance Fraud
Dec 19 2002 // The the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) has issued a statement urging the New York State Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to pass legislation to address auto insurance fraud. Both the...
