Latest Carriers Headlines
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Health Insurers Offer $300 Billion Plan for Covering Uninsured
Nov 15 2006 // Health insurance companies proposed a national $300 billion plan this week aimed at getting coverage for all uninsured children in three years and for most adults within 10. The plan includes tax breaks for the working...
N.C.’s Jones, Duplin Counties Face Deadline for Ernesto Claims
Nov 15 2006 // The deadline for seeking mediation for disputed insurance claims arising from Tropical Storm Ernesto is fast approaching for residential property owners in Jones and Duplin Counties. Residents with disputed property...
Verizon Wireless, Insurers Fined for Violations in Washington
Nov 15 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined Verizon Wireless Services LLC of Bedminster, N.J., $25,000 for failing to sell service contracts under its legal corporate name, a violation of state insurance...
Medical Malpractice Market in W. Va. Improves
Nov 15 2006 // Medical malpractice insurance in West Virginia, once a money-losing business, has become a profit machine for insurers as the number of lawsuits filed against doctors has declined, a report by the state Insurance...
S.D. Announces New Online Enhancements for Insurers, Agents
Nov 15 2006 // Insurance carriers, agencies, and producers will be able to connect with the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation, Division of Insurance 24 hours a day, thanks to an agreement signed recently with a national...
N.Y. City Loses Quick Bid to Block Health Insurers’ Merger
Nov 15 2006 // A judge on Tuesday refused a request by New York City officials to immediately stop the merger of two nonprofit insurance companies that provide coverage to city workers because it violates antitrust laws. U.S. District...
Fla. Weighs Special Session to Take Up Property Insurance Ideas
Nov 15 2006 // Insurers would be able to buy more reinsurance from the state’s hurricane catastrophe fund and homeowners would be able to buy lower cost policies offering less than complete coverage if recommendations from a...
Ohio Pain Management Specialist Scams Insurers for $60 Million
Nov 15 2006 // Patients often came to Dr. Jorge Martinez screaming in agony from chronic pain. The Ohio pain-management specialist was their last hope. He exploited their misery to shake down insurers for an incredible $60 million in...
ISO Chief: It’s ‘Haves’ Vs. ‘Have-Nots’ in Insurance Technology Race for Survival
Nov 14 2006 // Spurred by intensifying competition, breakthroughs in analytics are transforming insurance markets, according to an industry leader. Sophisticated insurers able to harness large volumes of high-quality data to drive...
Individual Health Policies Cost Insurers Less Than Group
Nov 13 2006 // Health insurers spend less on patients with individual policies than those with employer-sponsored plans, according to a new study released Friday. Patients with individual policies also have higher out-of-pocket expenses...
Insurer Files Complaint Against Ohio Cardinal Health
Nov 9 2006 // An insurer wants to determine whether it has coverage obligations in lawsuits involving a retirement plan at Cardinal Health Inc., the drug and medical supply distributor said in a Tuesday filing with the Securities and...
Lame Duck Romney Team Proceeds with Mass. Auto Changes
Nov 9 2006 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler said she intends to finish what she started three years ago in trying to refashion the state’s high risk auto insurance system, despite urgings by some that she...
CEO of Maryland Insurer CareFirst Steps Down; Interim CEO Named
Nov 8 2006 // William L. Jews will step down as chief executive of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield at the end of the year, the board of Maryland’s biggest health insurer said. The decision to leave was mutual, according to board...
Lawmakers say New Orleans insurance analysis reveals racial imbalance
Nov 6 2006 // Outreach measures never reached many minority homeowners, study found Associated Press analysis showing white homeowners in New Orleans were three times as likely as minorities to appeal insurance settlements after...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/ engineers. Lawyers, in...
Katrina trial could be moved from Gulf Coast to Oxford
Nov 6 2006 // Is fair trial in Gulfport possible given negative press, number of prominent policyholders? State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. has filed a motion in federal court in Gulfport, claiming it will get a fairer trial somewhere...
Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability
Nov 6 2006 // Lawyers professional liability, sometimes called legal malpractice, belongs with the selected “traditional” professional liability lines, such as physicians, accountants and architects/engineers. While...
Honesty is the best insurance policy
Nov 6 2006 // Why government should require insurance policies to declare what is NOT covered I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 6 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
Federal appeals court upholds juries’ rulings in World Trade Center twin tower claims
Nov 6 2006 // A federal court has upheld the jury verdicts that recognized the two-plane terrorist attacks on the towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, as a single event for some insurers and two events for others. A...
