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Calif. auto body regulations would increase rates
Nov 6 2006 // California policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops for insured repair work, according to three...
Honesty is the best insurance policy
Nov 6 2006 // Why government should require insurance policies to declare what is not covered I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is...
Litigation trends continue to mount worldwide, report says
Nov 6 2006 // Insurers face five times the average number of lawsuits than other economic sectors Insurance companies are the litigation champions confronting an average of 1,696 lawsuits, spanning from product liability and...
More fallout expected from Neb. Supreme Court ruling on liability
Nov 5 2006 // Skate parks across Nebraska, such as those in Fremont, Norfolk and North Platte, are the first casualties of a state Supreme Court decision about liability and insurance coverage, many are saying. The Nebraska Supreme...
Honesty is the best insurance policy
Nov 5 2006 // I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is the Best Insurance Policy Act” calls for requiring insurance companies to...
Rising tide of lawsuits-EPLI
Nov 5 2006 // Employment practices claims, like other tort exposures, are risks that may jeopardize corporate assets and therefore should be insured. The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances...
Honesty is the best insurance policy
Nov 5 2006 // I have introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to make future insurance policies easier for consumers to understand. The “Honesty is the Best Insurance Policy Act” calls for requiring insurance companies to...
News Currents
Nov 5 2006 // Calif. auto body regulations would increase rates California policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops...
News Currents
Nov 5 2006 // Many California Hispanics unaware of uninsured motorists requirements On Oct. 1, 2006, the California Department of Motor Vehicles began enforcing Senate Bill 1500 that requires the DMV to suspend a vehicle’s...
Calif. approves reinsurance regs
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved “Reinsurance Accounting, Agreements and Oversight” regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance. The regulations set forth the principal...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
Litigation trends continue to mount worldwide, report says
Nov 5 2006 // News Currents Insurance companies are the litigation champions confronting an average of 1,696 lawsuits, spanning from product liability and environmental class actions to directors and officers claims, and even coverage...
Judge Denies Miss. Couple New Trial on Storm Surge Coverage
Nov 3 2006 // A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss. couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina spawned hundreds of...
Chief of La. Citizens Urges Lawmakers to Have Patience
Nov 2 2006 // Anger over new fees meant to help recovery from last year’s hurricane claims is no reason to tinker with 2003 state laws creating Louisiana’s state-run insurance company, the company’s chairman said Oct....
Chicago Judge Approves Sale of Segal’s Estate for $17.6 Million
Nov 2 2006 // A federal judge this week approved the sale of a suburban estate that belonged to a jailed insurance executive after a building company and preservationists agreed on how to develop the historic property. The Chicago judge...
Vermont Court Says Drug Maker Owes $6.8M for Woman’s Amputation
Nov 1 2006 // Drug maker Wyeth must pay nearly $6.8 million to a Vermont woman whose arm had to be amputated after she was injected with one of its medications, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled, upholding a lower court’s ruling. In...
Kentucky Churchgoers: Medi-Share Not an Insurance Program
Oct 30 2006 // A Christian cost-sharing ministry set up to help cover medical costs for churchgoers is not an insurance program and doesn’t claim to be, the head of the American Evangelical Association testified last week. E. John...
Sharing Power Seen as Option for Evenly Split Oklahoma Senate
Oct 30 2006 // Democratic and Republican state Senate leaders in Oklahoma may follow the lead of their counterparts in other states and share power if the chamber has a tie in membership after the Nov. 7 general election, officials...
N.M. Fraud Bureau Hosts National Fraud Directors Conference
Oct 30 2006 // The New Mexico Insurance Fraud Bureau, a bureau of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Insurance Division, is hosting the 2006 National Insurance Fraud Directors Conference in Santa Fe, N.M., on Oct. 30- Nov....
Lawmakers: AP’s New Orleans Insurance Analysis Points to Need for Legislation and Outreach
Oct 27 2006 // An Associated Press analysis showing white homeowners in New Orleans were three times as likely as minorities to appeal insurance settlements after Hurricane Katrina points to a deep racial imbalance and the need for...
