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New insurance commissioner in Tennessee
Jan 29 2007 // Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has named a Nashville attorney, Leslie Shechter Newman, as commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance. She succeeds Paula Flowers, who recently resigned. Newman is a partner...
Kentucky judge permits Christians-only health plan to continue
Jan 29 2007 // A Christians-only health plan that serves nearly 20,000 churchgoers nationwide can continue operating in Kentucky, a judge ruled recenntly. Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate said the Medi-Share program...
Agents, brokers ready to pursue ambitious legislative agenda in 2007
Jan 28 2007 // There is a new political dynamic in Congress that presents both opportunities and pitfalls. Last year, the President signed into law pension and health care reform that will greatly benefit insurance consumers. House...
Agents, brokers ready to pursue ambitious legislative agenda in 2007
Jan 28 2007 // There is a new political dynamic in Congress that presents both opportunities and pitfalls. Last year, the President signed into law pension and health care reform that will greatly benefit insurance consumers. House...
News Currents
Jan 28 2007 // New insurance commissioner in Tennessee Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has named a Nashville attorney, Leslie Shechter Newman, as commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance. She succeeds Paula Flowers, who...
Cyber liability market is older, wiser, smarter and still growing
Jan 28 2007 // The need for cyber coverage is growing. More companies are growing their revenue through online sales. As a result, they are becoming more exposed. Beginning a New Year provides an opportunity to reflect on challenges and...
Delaware enacts major workers comp system reform package
Jan 28 2007 // News Currents The Delaware Senate and House moved swiftly earlier this month to pass a bill containing major reforms of the state’s workers’ compensation system. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner immediately signed the...
Conn. AG seeks to block shutter requirement
Jan 28 2007 // Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has submitted draft legislation to the General Assembly that would prohibit insurers from requiring that consumers install hurricane shutters as a condition of insurance. The...
8 N.Y.’s Interboro Mutual’s back in
Jan 28 2007 // Long Island insurer reborn as stock insurer 8 Delaware agents groups to merge Group will be both Big ‘I’ and PIA 8 Mass. Diocese gives files to insurers Insurers may review handling of abuse cases 10 Royal...
How Democratic Congress might approach federal insurance regulation
Jan 28 2007 // News Currents The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating the panel was television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS...
News Currents
Jan 28 2007 // R.I. lawmakers study ways to assist coastal homeowners A group of Rhode Island legislators examining insurance companies’ recent changes to homeowners’ policies for coastal areas met recently at the University...
Kentucky judge permits Christians-only health plan to continue
Jan 28 2007 // A Christians-only health plan that serves nearly 20,000 churchgoers nationwide can continue operating in Kentucky, a judge ruled recenntly. Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate said the Medi-Share program...
There’s lot insurers do not like in Florida’s property insurance fix
Jan 28 2007 // Legislators rolled up their sleeves, ripped off their ties and unbuttoned their collars as a special legislative session on property insurance came to a head in Florida. After six days of conferring, negotiating and...
Windstorm expected to be major insurance issue for Texas lawmakers
Jan 28 2007 // Funding for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Asso-ciation (TWIA) may not be the only insurance issue on lawmakers’ plates during the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, but it will likely be the most high profile...
It Figures
Jan 28 2007 // $445 Billion Nearly half a billion dollars will be given to U.S. cities and regions to help reduce the risk of terror attacks on ports, transit systems and chemical plants, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff...
Enron’s legacies and directors and officers risk
Jan 28 2007 // Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron...
Federal Judge Puts Part of State Farm Katrina Settlement on Hold
Jan 27 2007 // The federal judge who must sign off on a proposed $50 million class action settlement involving State Farm’s handling of Hurricane Katrina claims has said he needs lots more information before agreeing to the deal...
W. Va. Judge Dismisses 400 Flood Claims Against Coal Firms
Jan 26 2007 // A circuit judge has dismissed the claims of about 400 victims of a devastating flood in southern West Virginia in 2001. Ohio County Circuit Judge Arthur M. Recht said in last week’s ruling that the plaintiffs who...
AAMGA Leaders Conclude ‘Fact-Finding’ London Trip
Jan 26 2007 // Insurance may be local, but it doesn’t have to be handled exclusively in the state, or even the country, where it’s needed. For the surplus lines market that means Lloyd’s, which explains the annual visit...
Marsh Granted First ‘Wholly-Owned’ License in China
Jan 26 2007 // Marsh announced it has been awarded China’s first ever Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE) insurance broking license. The bulletin said the “new license provisions, subject to tax and regulatory approvals,...
