Latest Indiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
MED-MAL CAPS ADVANCE IN IOWA, MO.:
Apr 5 2004 // Tort reform continued to advance in the Midwest as legislators in the House of Representatives in Iowa and Missouri passed measures that would put caps on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases. The Iowa House...
AIA OPPOSES LEGISLATION TO BAN USE OF CREDIT-BASED INSURANCE SCORES IN COLO.:
Apr 5 2004 // A proposal to ban use of credit-based insurance scores (HB 1292) would do severe harm to, and cause unintended consequences for, Colorado consumers, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). “Removing...
ARIZ. DOI OFFERS LICENSING SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF:
Apr 5 2004 // Beginning March 25, 2004, the Ariz. Department of Insurance will open its Flagstaff office every Thursday for northern Ariz. residents seeking licensing services and general insurance consumer assistance. Services are...
CINFIN VP REPORTED IN CRITICAL CARE AFTER AUTO CRASH:
Mar 22 2004 // Kenneth S. Miller, a senior vice president for insurer Cincinnati Financial Corp., was hospitalized in critical condition after an auto accident Feb. 29 in Fairfield, according to a statement released by the company....
TRG CLAIMS TO BE PAID IN ARK.:
Mar 22 2004 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens said agreements have been reached regarding the payment of outstanding claims for enrollees in the health plan of TRG Marketing LLC. National Health Plans Plus Inc. (NHPP) has...
InsureVianet Takes Comp Program to Mich., Ind.
Mar 16 2004 // A division of Chicago-based online broker InsuranceNoodle has introduced a new Internet-based small business workers’ compensation insurance program for agencies in Indiana in Michigan. The division, InsureVianet, is...
First Financial Buys Ind. Agency
Mar 10 2004 // Hamilton, Ohio-based First Financial Bancorp has purchased an insurance agency operation in Highland, Ind. The purchase arrangement was completed Feb. 1, 2004, and the agency is now operating as a full-service unit of...
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...
APCAPITAL LOSES $76 MILLION IN 2004:
Mar 8 2004 // East Lansing, Mich.-based medical liability insurer American Physicians Capital Inc. announced net income of $102,000, or 1 cent per share for the fourth quarter of 2003. For the year, the company reported a net loss of...
FLORIDA’S UNCLAIMED PROPERTY PROGRAM NEARS $1 BILLION IN HOLDINGS FOR RESIDENTS:
Feb 23 2004 // At a bimonthly meeting with the governor and other state Cabinet members, Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that the Department of Financial Services’ Bureau of Unclaimed Property is holding...
NO DISMISSAL IN HALLIBURTON CASE:
Feb 23 2004 // Halliburton announced that a judge in Pittsburgh, Penn. has ruled that insurers lack standing to bring motions seeking to dismiss the prepackaged reorganization cases filed by DII Industries, Kellogg Brown & Root...
NEW WORKERS’ COMP CARRIER IN CALIF.:
Feb 23 2004 // For the first time in almost two years, entrepreneurial interests are introducing a new carrier to the California workers’ comp market. Western Compensation Insurance Company, a California corporation, was formed in...
$6M RECOVERED IN OKLAHOMA:
Feb 9 2004 // The Oklahoma Department of Insurance recovered more than $6 million in underpaid insurance claims for consumers during 2003. According to Commissioner Carroll Fisher, an estimated 7,000 Oklahomans contacted the department...
NEVADA FIRST IN FRAUD CONVICTIONS:
Feb 9 2004 // Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that the Nevada Department of Justice, Insurance Fraud Unit, obtained more convictions per capita than any other state. The statistics for insurance crimes were compiled by the...
CWCI STUDY EXAMINES EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN WORKERS’ COMP:
Feb 9 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has issued a new study examining the development and history of evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a tool for assuring appropriate, quality medical care, and its potential...
INDUSTRY, MO. REGULATORS AGREE COMP COSTS SHOULD FALL IN 2004:
Jan 26 2004 // State regulators and the insurance industry’s principal workers’ compensation trade group have called for a reduction in Missouri workers’ compensation insurance rates, providing financial relief for the...
ALLIANCE IN SUPPORT OF S.C. ANTI-FRAUD PROPOSAL:
Jan 26 2004 // A proposal to create and fund an insurance fraud investigation and prosecution framework in South Carolina reportedly has the support of the Alliance of American Insurers. The Omnibus Insurance Fraud and Reporting Immunity...
ROGUE AGENT IN ARKANSAS:
Jan 26 2004 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens issued a warning that despite his arrest for fraud, Steven Edward Gwin, better known as Steve Gwin, is continuing to sell insurance products in the Northwest Arkansas area....
FRAUD TARGETED IN TEXAS:
Jan 26 2004 // With the creation of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, the Texas insurance industry, state and county agencies, and national organizations are engaging for the first time in a coordinated effort to battle insurance...
CALIF. AGENT FEES UP 10% IN 2004:
Jan 26 2004 // The California Department of Insurance sent out a notice a few weeks ago reminding all insurance licensees that they will be ringing in the New Year with a 10 percent fee increase, the American Agents Alliance said in its...
