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Integro Appoints Kilduff a Managing Principal for Healthcare in N.Y.

May 31 2006 // Integro Appoints Ruth Kilduff as Managing Principal in the Firm’s New York Office Insurance broker Integro thas named Ruth Kilduff as a managing principal, specializing in healthcare coverage, for the firm’s...

Insurers Urge Veto of N.Y. Credit Freeze Legislation

May 30 2006 // New York lawmakers have passed legislation designed to protect consumers against identity theft but insurers are urging Gov. George Pataki to veto the measure because its credit freeze provision does not exclude...

Two Major Title Insurance Cos. in N.Y. Ordered to End Rebate Practice

May 24 2006 // Two major title insurance companies have agreed to end a practice of providing rebates to major commercial property customers at the expense of homeowners and small businesses, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...

Upstate N.Y. Auto Parts Couple Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud

May 23 2006 // The New York State Insurance Fund has reported the arrest of a husband and wife in connection with an alleged workers’ compensation premium fraud scheme in upstate Jefferson County, New York. Gordon Dobbins, 73, and...

People and Places

May 22 2006 // Don Bailey has been appointed chief operating officer of Willis Group Holdings North American business unit. Bailey will work with Mario Vitale, chief executive officer of Willis North America, in managing the...

Principal Financial Receives 2nd Subpoena from Spitzer

May 18 2006 // Principal Financial Group Inc. said earlier this week that it has received a second subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is conducting an industrywide probe of insurance companies. The second request...

Northeast’s DCAP Feels Assigned Risk Decline But Focuses on Growth

May 17 2006 // DCAP Group, Inc., a large chain of independent storefront insurance agencies in the Northeast, reported that first quarter 2006 total revenues were $2,867,690, a decline from the prior year amount of $3,208,073. Net income...

HANYS, InsMed Agency Offer Disability Coverage for N.Y. Physicians

May 17 2006 // HANYS Benefit Services, an affiliate of the Healthcare Association of New York State, and InsMed Insurance Agency, Inc. have joined forces to provide disability insurance protection and program support for medical...

Upstate N.Y. Stone Mason Under-Reported Workers’ Comp, Says Fund

May 14 2006 // An upstate New York employer’s alleged attempt to pay lower premium than required for his workers’ compensation policy with The New York State Insurance Fund began to unravel after he filed a claim for an...

Metro N.Y. Auto Claims Costlier Than Upstate, Industry Study Says

May 12 2006 // A recent Insurance Research Council (IRC) study of auto injury insurance claims in the state of New York finds that claimants from the New York City metropolitan area exhibit very different claiming behaviors than...

People and Places

May 8 2006 // Rick Padula has been appointed president and chief operating officer of the Glover-Padula Insurance Agency in East Greenwich, R.I., which is one of Gencorp Insurance Group’s business units. Padula has been with...

N.Y. AGENTS SEE E&O TROUBLE

May 8 2006 // New York insurance agents face potential errors and omissions claims if they follow a New York City requirement on certificates of insurance for road contractors, an agents group has warned. The city’s transportation...

$80 million settlement reached in bid-rigging case with Ill., Conn., N.Y.

May 8 2006 // Attorney General Lisa Madigan, of Illinois, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal recently announced an $80 million settlement agreement with Bermuda-based holding...

Delmarva poultry industry criticizes federal avian flu planning

May 8 2006 // News Currents The federal government could learn a thing or two from the Delaware- Maryland-Virginia area poultry industry about how to prepare for an outbreak of avian flu, according to the Delmarva industry officials. In...

People

May 8 2006 // Rick Padula has been appointed president and chief operating officer of the Glover-Padula Insurance Agency in East Greenwich, R.I., which is one of Gencorp Insurance Group’s business units. Padula has been with...

News Currents

May 8 2006 // N.Y. agents see E&O trouble New York insurance agents face potential errors and omissions claims if they follow a New York City requirement on certificates of insurance for road contractors, an agents group has...

$80 million settlement reached in bid-rigging case with Ill., Conn., N.Y.

May 8 2006 // Attorney General Lisa Madigan, of Illinois, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal recently announced an $80 million settlement agreement with Bermuda-based holding...

Swett & Crawford Appoints New Staff Nationwide

May 5 2006 // Swett & Crawford has announced new additions to their staff in offices nationwide. Margaret Jacobs moves to the Swett & Crawford Chicago office as director, Healthcare Practice Group, from Aon Risk Services where...

N.Y. Supt. Mills Urges Tax-Deferred Catastrophe Reserves for Insurers

May 4 2006 // The country may not need a natural catastrophe backup fund like it has for terrorism exposures, provided government allows insurers to create catastrophe reserves on a tax-deferred basis, according to New York’...

$80 Million Settlement Reached in Bid-rigging Case with Ill., Conn., N.Y.

Apr 26 2006 // Attorney General Lisa Madigan, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced an $80 million settlement agreement with Bermuda-based holding company ACE,...