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Eight Florida Residents Arrested for Involvement in PIP Fraud Scam
May 14 2015 // Eight Broward County, Fla., residents have been arrested for PIP (personal injury protection) fraud after an investigation by the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud revealed the individuals...
Four Arrested for Involvement in Florida PIP Fraud Scam
Apr 8 2015 // Four individuals have been arrested in Broward County, Fla. for their involvement in a PIP (personal injury protection) scam, according to a statement by the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of...
One Killed by Falling Beams After 18-Wheeler Hits Texas Bridge
Mar 27 2015 // One man was reported killed and three injured on March 26 after a tractor trailer truck hit the FM 2484 overpass bridge on Interstate 35 in Central Texas, causing beams to fall on the traffic below. The bridge near the...
Two California Insurers Agree to Change Use of Death Master File
Mar 24 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced multi-million dollar settlement agreements with Guardian Life and Pacific Life related to their use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File...
Four Health Insurers Fined $280K in Maryland
Mar 23 2015 // Four health insurance companies paid a combined $280,000 in fines to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) for selling unapproved health insurance plans to college students in Maryland, regulators announced on March...
One-Quarter of British SMEs Fail to Read Their Full Insurance Policy: Research
Mar 3 2015 // Research conducted for the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) found that leaders of British small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do not always read their insurance documents, with over one quarter (29...
Three Arrested in Florida in Unlicensed Clinic PIP Fraud Scam
Feb 25 2015 // Three Central Florida arrests were made by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud for the operation of an unlicensed clinic in Orlando that was used as part of a personal injury protection (PIP) fraud scheme, according to...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Dec 18 2014 // When news broke that the Utah Department of Insurance found that popular new benefits company Zenefits was not in compliance with state insurance law, and would have to alter its operation or cease transacting business,...
Five Arrested in Alleged Staged Accident Scam in North Carolina
Nov 30 2014 // North Carolina insurance officials reported the arrests of five people from Fayetville in an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving a staged auto accident in Cumberland County. Department of Insurance criminal...
Two Arizona Counties Get Disaster Declaration
Nov 7 2014 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says President Barak Obama has approved her major disaster declaration request for federal assistance for Maricopa and La Paz counties following the severe flooding on Sept. 8. Federal aid will take...
Two Charged with Stealing 130-Plus Calculators from Texas High School
Nov 6 2014 // Two men have been charged with felony theft after more than 130 calculators worth about $17,000 were stolen from a Central Texas school. Round Rock police spokeswoman Angelique Myers on said investigators are seeking three...
Two Arkansas Firms Cited by OSHA; Fines Total More than $123K
Nov 6 2014 // Two Arkansas-based companies have been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for workplace safety violations. Combined penalties proposed by OSHA for the two firms...
Three Trends to Watch for in Architects & Engineers Coverage
Nov 3 2014 // Architects and engineers are high-risk professions. A small error within their designs can potentially lead to construction delays, significant losses and an array of other costly lawsuits. Purchasing professional...
Eight P&C Insurers Get Top Marks for Climate Change Risk Management
Oct 22 2014 // Munich Re and ACE Ltd. are among insurers that are best prepared to manage risks related to climate change, a lobbying group said. The nine insurers that were found to be integrating climate change into underwriting and...
Three ‘Common Sense’ Tactics for Commercial Lines Prospecting
Oct 20 2014 // Prospecting for fresh insurance leads is the soil of sales. And as any horticulturist can tell you, good earth is required to grow anything – including your agency. You can delegate this core function to a third party...
Eleven Southern California Schools to Undergo Asbestos Testing
Oct 9 2014 // An Orange County school district will test every room in its 11 schools for asbestos after questions were raised about whether students were exposed to carcinogenic dust during construction projects earlier this school...
Two Plead Guilty in Iowa to Defrauding AIG, Face Decades in Prison
Sep 4 2014 // Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
Eight Homes, 10 Buildings Destroyed by California Wildfire
Aug 21 2014 // A wildfire northeast of Bakersfield, Calif. has destroyed eight homes and 10 other structures, authorities said, but residents of some 200 homes under evacuation orders were allowed to return home Wednesday evening. The...
Five Tornadoes Struck Illinois, Weather Service Says
Jul 3 2014 // The National Weather Service is now reporting five tornadoes touched down in Illinois during a storm that dumped heavy rain as it swept across the state. A weather service damage survey has confirmed modest tornadoes...
One Catastrophe Won’t Scare Away Alternative Capital: S&P Panelists
Jun 9 2014 // Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance have surged to record levels this year thanks to the continuing influx of alternative capital into the reinsurance market, leaving credit analysts and...
