Latest Department of Insurance Headlines
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Missouri Department of Insurance Reports Leadership Changes
Apr 24 2013 // Several veteran regulators were appointed into new positions at the Missouri Department of Insurance during the first quarter of 2013. Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff announced that John Rehagen, Mary...
Missouri Regulators Reach $2M Settlement with Travel Insurance Company
Mar 25 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that Missouri consumers who purchased travel insurance policies sold by a Pennsylvania-based insurer may be entitled to a refund of nearly $2 million. The policies were sold...
Kentucky Panel Revives Christian Health Bill, Confirms Clark as Commissioner
Mar 11 2013 // A Christians-only health care ministry would be allowed to resume operating in Kentucky under a measure that had been languishing in the Legislature only to be revived by a House committee last week. The House Banking and...
California Commissioner Fingers Insurers for Iran Investments
Feb 25 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in mid-February singled out eight insurers licensed to do business in the state that continue to have investments tied to Iran’s energy, military and nuclear...
Ohio Took Enforcement Actions Against 167 Agents in 2012
Feb 22 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the department’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2012. During the calendar year, the department processed 7,274 allegations of...
St. Louis County Police Commend Missouri Insurance Fraud Investigator
Feb 21 2013 // The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners has awarded a commendation to an investigator at the Missouri Department of Insurance for his efforts in uncovering a widespread insurance fraud operation against...
Missouri Insurance Department Settles with Company over Travel Insurance
Feb 19 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that Missouri consumers who bought travel insurance from Virginia Surety Co. or through Cheap Caribbean, one of its contracted agencies, may be entitled to a refund. A joint...
California Commissioner Fingers Insurers for Iran Investments
Feb 13 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday singled out eight insurers licensed to do business in the state that continue to have investments tied to Iran’s energy, military and nuclear sectors. During...
Arch to Acquire Interests in California Firm From Bankrupt PMI
Feb 8 2013 // Arch Capital Group Ltd., through its U.S.-based subsidiaries (Arch U.S. MI), will acquire all outstanding equity interests in San Francisco, Calif.-based CMG Mortgage Insurance Co. from bankrupt Arizona-based PMI Mortgage...
California Department of Insurance: $20M Rate Reduction for Homeowners
Jan 31 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday announced today a 35 percent rate reduction for lender-placed homeowner’s insurance coverage offered by QBE Insurance Corp. The rate reduction will result in an estimated...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 28 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Michigan Governor Proposes New Department of Insurance and Finance
Jan 17 2013 // Michigan Gov. Rick Synder has proposed the creation of a new Department of Insurance and Financial Services. Snyder, who is beginning his third year as governor, said the new department will “emphasize consumer...
Missouri Department of Insurance Closes Two Receiverships
Jan 11 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency. A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Missouri Regulator: Barton County Mutual Back on Solid Ground
Jan 8 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled. A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Insurance Fraud Allegations Up in Ohio
Dec 11 2012 // Officials say the record number of insurance-fraud allegations in Ohio this year can be partly attributed to better reporting of suspected incidents and difficult economic times that push some people into illegal...
Deadline Nears to Claim 2008 Louisiana Citizens Assessment Rebate
Dec 10 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and Department of Revenue (LDR) Director of Customer Service Kent LaPlace are reminding property insurance policyholders that time is running out to claim a rebate for the...
Henderson Named Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Advocacy in Louisiana
Nov 5 2012 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that Ron C. Henderson has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Advocacy for the Louisiana Department of Insurance. As head of the Office of Consumer Advocacy,...
Ohio Agent Tax Lien Program Nets $5.3 Million Since 2011
Nov 2 2012 // Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that an agent tax lien program that has collected more than $5.3 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers compensation premium payments....
Kentucky Cease Order for Christians-Only Health Plan Goes Into Effect
Nov 1 2012 // Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan will lose their coverage on Thursday under a judge’s order to cease operations. Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate found that Medi-Share doesn’t...
