Latest Idaho Headlines
All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
LexisNexis Reports Customer ID Theft
Mar 10 2005 // Reed Elsevier today announced that LexisNexis, its global legal and business information business, has identified a number of incidents of potentially fraudulent access to information about U.S. individuals at its recently...
ChoicePoint Reported to Have Had Previous ID Theft
Mar 3 2005 // Two Nigerian-born siblings were arrested in 2002 on charges of tapping into ChoicePoint Inc.’s vast database of personal information, a security breach similar to one announced by the data warehouser last month, a...
AIA: Increasing Idaho’s Speed Limit for Large Trucks will be Disastrous
Feb 24 2005 // Raising the speed limit for large trucks and other vehicles on Idaho’s state highways is a recipe for disaster, according to the American Insurance Association. S. 1133, sponsored by the Idaho Department of...
AIA: Increasing Idaho’s Speed Limit is Dangerous
Feb 11 2005 // Increasing Idaho’s speed limit from 65 mph to 75 mph is dangerous public policy, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). A bill (SB 1082) introduced by the Senate earlier this month will reportedly...
N.M., Idaho Customers to Share in $40 Million State Farm Settlement
Jan 12 2005 // Some New Mexico consumers will share in a $40 million settlement between states and State Farm Mutual Insurance Company. State Farm failed to properly title some vehicles for salvage, Attorney General Patricia Madrid...
Idaho Man Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Dec 20 2004 // Chad Croner, of Meridian, Idaho was sentenced to one to five years in prison for insurance fraud, according to Attorney General Lawrence Wasden. Fourth District Judge Joel Horton suspended the sentence and ordered Croner...
People & Places
Dec 6 2004 // Camilla Marlowe Camilla A. Marlowe was appointed vice president of Irvine, Calif.-based SullivanCurt-isMonroe Insurance Brokerage. Marlowe specializes in employee benefits consulting. She has 23 years of experience in the...
Idaho Man Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Nov 23 2004 // Chad Croner, 30, of Meridian, Idaho was sentenced to one to five years in prison for insurance fraud, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. Fourth District Judge Joel Horton suspended the sentence and ordered Croner to...
PIA Western Alliance Unites Agents Across Nine States
Nov 22 2004 // Four Professional Insurance Association (PIA) affiliate chapters recently united to form the PIA Western Alliance, a 1,500-member organization for independent agents based in Vancouver, Wash. The four PIA chapters that...
Smith to Head Idaho Department of Insurance
Nov 15 2004 // Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne’s selection to lead the Idaho Department of Insurance is no stranger to state government, public service and private sector leadership. Gary Smith, a long-time senior aide to Gov....
AG SUES ID THEFT PROTECTION CO.:
Oct 25 2004 // The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew...
Long-Term Health Care Costs Loom Large for Governors
Sep 6 2004 // Soaring health care costs, coupled with the looming retirement of a record 77 million Americans starting in 2011, are casting a shadow of concern over states that worry their public health care systems can’t shoulder...
Oregon and Idaho Seminars Focus on CLUE Reports
Jul 22 2004 // The use of loss history reports in underwriting homeowners insurance policies was the subject of seminars held recently in Oregon and Idaho. Sam Sorich, Western Region vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers...
Idaho: More than Snowcapped Peaks, Plateaus and Potatoes
Jul 5 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Idaho at 1,293,953. Approximately 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 22 percent had...
Kingsley Elected President of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho
Jun 17 2004 // Richard Kingsley, owner of Stayton-based Cammack-Kingsley Insurance Inc., has been elected president-elect of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho, a trade association that represents more than 2,300...
Regional Focus
Jun 7 2004 // Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill was attributed with the comment that “all politics are local.” The same could be said for the insurance industry—insurance coverage is definitely local. In...
FLORIDA CFO PROMOTES LEGISLATION TO PREVENT ID THEFT:
Apr 19 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...
Fla. CFO Promotes Legislation to Prevent ID Theft
Mar 22 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Monday unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
IDAHO OFFERS ONLINE IN-STATE PRODUCER LICENSE RENEWAL SERVICE:
Jan 26 2004 // After nearly two years since it began offering online license renewals to out of state insurance producers, the Idaho Department of Insurance is now extending the same convenience to in-state producers. Those who use the...
