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Talking Tort with Colorado Commissioner Doug Dean
Feb 9 2004 // Washington Governor Bill Owens appointed Doug Dean commissioner of Insurance in January 2003. As commissioner, Dean heads the Division of Insurance, which is one of eight divisions within the Department of Regulatory...
Colorado Top 40 Commercial & Private Passenger Auto Insurers
Feb 9 2004 // The information provided below was taken from the 2002 Colorado Insurance Industry Statistical Report. All figures quoted are acquired from information filed by each company with the Colorado Division of Insurance, and the...
Survey: New Car Owners Know Little About Insurance Coverage
Feb 9 2004 // A recent national survey by Mayfield Village, Ohio-based vehicle insurer Progressive, found that new car owners know much more about the features of their vehicle than they do about the insurance that protects it,...
No Brake Yet for Personal & Commercial Auto
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
South Dakota Legislature Kills Auto Liability Increase Bill
Feb 5 2004 // The South Dakota legislature has killed a House bill that would have reportedly increased the cost of auto liability insurance by as much as 20 percent. “South Dakota is Number 46 among the 51 states in auto...
Brian Duffy Appointed Sr. VP of ACE Select Markets
Feb 5 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group of Companies, announced the appointment of Brian Duffy as Senior Vice President, ACE Select Markets, based in Philadelphia. He will be “responsible for the...
The van Aartrijk Group Opens New Jersey Office; Wasilewski Named Senior Associate
Feb 4 2004 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a marketing communications firm specializing in insurance and financial services, has named Charles Wasilewski senior associate in conjunction with the opening of a New Jersey...
Mass. Agents Assn. Stresses Need for Participation in Auto Cost Study
Feb 4 2004 // If you’re asked to participate in the 2004 private passenger auto insurance agency cost study, it’s crucial for your future to do so. That’s the message the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents...
Auto Insurance, Workers’ Comp Emerge Again as Top Leading Legal Issue Trends
Jan 30 2004 // Workers’ compensation and automobile insurance laws accounted for nearly 40 percent of the new property/casualty-related statutes enacted by state legislatures last year, according to the fifth annual analysis of...
N.J. Man Charged with Stealing Thousands from 9/11 Disaster Programs Notes Additional Scams
Jan 27 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man previously convicted and sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in 9/11 survivor benefits has admitted committing...
SHEPARD EXTENDS STATE AUTO OFFER UNTIL FEB. 13:
Jan 26 2004 // Gregory M. Shepard recently announced a second extension of the expiration date of the tender offer made by himself and his wholly owned subsidiary, STFC Acquisition Corp., for 8 million shares of Columbus, Ohio-based...
Buttafuoco Among 11 Charged with Auto Repair Fraud
Jan 26 2004 // Nine owners or employees of California auto repair shops were arrested and charged recently with auto insurance fraud following a lengthy investigation by a multi-agency task force headed by the District Attorney’s...
Terms of Credit History Use Still Being Negotiated
Jan 26 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance held a public hearing Jan. 7, 2004 to consider a proposal that would cap the amount by which insurance companies could increase or decrease rates in personal lines insurance because of an...
EMC Sub to Exit Nonstandard Auto
Jan 26 2004 // Iowa-based EMC Insurance Group Inc. announced that Farm and City Insurance Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary, will discontinue writing nonstandard risk automobile insurance business and institute non-renewal procedures on all...
Confusion Reigns on the Massachusetts Auto Front
Jan 26 2004 // While everyone agrees that something should be done about Massachusetts’ spiraling auto rates and uncompetitive market, no one seems to be able to agree on just what. When the state’s Department of Insurance...
Study Shows Deadly Gaps in State Road Safety Laws
Jan 26 2004 // Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) released its first “Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws: A Report on States in the Passing Lane, in the Slow Lane and Stopped on the Shoulder” that found many...
Court Invalidates Auto Insurance Discount Law
Jan 26 2004 // A judge invalidated a California state law that would have allowed discounts for longtime auto insurance customers who switch insurers, according to the Associated Press. Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs sided with...
Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Jan 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five business in sting concluding what has turned out to be one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operation in the history of Monterey County. Arrested...
USAA Companies to Lower Auto Rates in Louisiana
Jan 23 2004 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission approved a reduction in auto rates for two members of the United Services Auto Association group of companies. According to Associated Press reports, the two companies, United...
USAA Companies to Lower Auto Rates in Louisiana
Jan 23 2004 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission approved a reduction in auto rates for two members of the United Services Auto Association group of companies. According to Associated Press reports, the two companies, United...
