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Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...
Exclusive Agents Feel the Squeeze
Feb 10 2003 // The times they are a’changin’.” Bob Dylan’s 60’s refrain could be the theme song for a new spirit moving through the ranks of the insurance industry’s exclusive (captive) agents. The...
NAII Supports Medical Liability Reform Efforts in Senate
Feb 6 2003 // Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), joined Senators Rick Santorum (R-Pa.),...
AAI Urges ABA to Adopt Recommendations for Asbestos Litigation
Feb 5 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) has urged the American Bar Association (ABA) to adopt a new medical standard regarding asbestos claims. The ABA’s Commission on Asbestos Litigation will present its...
Ohio Court Strikes Progressive Class Action Suit
Feb 3 2003 // A Jan. 23 Ohio appeals court decision to protect Progressive Corp. against a national class action suit averted “significant cost increases” in auto insurance premiums, according to Ohio Insurance Director Ann...
Silverstein Registers Second Litigation Triumph in One Day
Jan 29 2003 // Silverstein Properties Inc. reported Wednesday that the district judge presiding over its dispute with the insurers of the Twin Towers had granted its motion to compel Swiss Re and Allianz to produce notes of meetings held...
Caliber Files Lawsuit Over State Regulators
Jan 24 2003 // In a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court recently, Irvine-based Caliber Collision Centers asked the court to compel the Bureau of Automotive Repair to stop engaging in a regulatory practice that is...
Zurich NA Gives Details on WTC Lawsuits
Jan 23 2003 // Zurich American Insurance Company (ZAIC) has given additional details, and clarified the company’s position, on the recently filed lawsuit against Larry Silverstein and other entities in a dispute related to the...
AAI Outlines 2003 Federal, State Priorities at NPC
Jan 15 2003 // Alliance of American Insurers President Rodger Lawson outlined the association’s priorities for 2003 at a recent press briefing held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Among the group’s top...
C.H. Robinson Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jan 6 2003 // Minneapolis-based C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., a provider of transportation services and shipping logistics, indicated that it has settled one of three pending wrongful death lawsuits, resulting from a multi vehicle...
Report Japanese Insurer Files Suit against Fortress Re and Accountants
Dec 30 2002 // Japan’s Aioi Insurance Co. has filed a lawsuit in North Carolina against Fortress Re and its accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, alleging improper acts by the privately owned reinsurer’s directors and...
Class Action Settlements Need Finality, AIA Urges High Court
Dec 23 2002 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that would allow settlements of class action lawsuits to be challenged even after appeals courts upheld the...
Pa. Supreme Court: Workers’ Comp Payments Recoupable from Malpractice Suit Proceeds
Dec 19 2002 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that insurers can recoup workers’ compensation payments from malpractice suit proceeds made to injured employees who sue their lawyers for mishandling their...
21st Century Files Suit Relating to Fraudulent Claims
Dec 18 2002 // In response to a flood of insurance fraud relating to homeowners and earthquake insurance, 21st Century Insurance has filed a civil complaint against California-based Unlimited Adjusting Company and its principal Jung Ho...
Grabbing the Headlines in 2002
Dec 16 2002 // Who made the most “news” as opposed to the most “noise” in 2002? There were lots of candidates, but the ones we’ve selected usually made news because they faced problems or took initiatives...
Grabbing the Headlines in 2002
Dec 16 2002 // Who made the most “news” as opposed to the most “noise” in 2002? There were lots of candidates, but the ones we’ve selected usually made news because they faced problems or took initiatives...
They Did It Their Way
Dec 16 2002 // When you’re compiling a list of top 10’s, there is always the fear of leaving someone off, admitting someone who maybe does not deserve the billing or having the players out of order of importance. Believe me,...
New Report Shows Asbestos Litigation Crisis Hurting Workers
Dec 16 2002 // The asbestos litigation crisis has cost the American economy tens of thousands of jobs and has reduced pension wealth for employees at bankrupt firms by an average of 25 percent, according to an American Insurance...
Alleged N. Y. Fraud Ring Sued by The Hartford
Dec 13 2002 // The Hartford filed suit against seven New York State residents and eleven New York businesses for their role in an alleged scheme to fraudulently purchase insurance coverage and avoid paying hundreds of thousands of...
