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Two N.C. Insurance Investigators Honored for Anti-Fraud Work
Dec 15 2006 // Two investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Chet Effler of Marion, N.C., and Martha Ann Ford of Chester, S.C., have been honored for their work on insurance fraud cases in 2006. Effler received an...
Seven Indicted for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
Three Ill. Counties Named Again in 2006 Judicial Hellhole Ranking
Dec 14 2006 // The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) released its annual Judicial Hellholes report, shining a bright spotlight on “America’s worst jurisdictions in which to face a lawsuit.” Three counties in...
Two More Plead Guilty in New Orleans Schools Insurance Kickbacks Case
Dec 11 2006 // Two insurance brokers who previously denied paying kickbacks to a key school official in exchange for lucrative insurance contracts have pleaded guilty to extortion charges in federal court as part of a plea deal with the...
Five keys to captive success
Dec 10 2006 // Whether you’re talking about road contractors or hospitals or agents and brokers, every organization has in-house expertise. And you want to use it. You need to bring members together to share best practices. The...
Two-County Sweep in N.C. Yields 10 Arrests for Insurance Fraud
Dec 5 2006 // In what officials describe as the largest auto insurance fraud ring in North Carolina history, 10 residents of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties are accused of defrauding insurance companies of an estimated $1...
One-Third of Orleans Area Residents Polled May Leave in 2 Years
Nov 29 2006 // Even among the best-off post-Katrina returnees to New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish – those living in houses or apartments, rather than trailers – about one-third say they may leave the area within...
Two California State Fund Directors Resign
Nov 21 2006 // Two directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund have resigned, following concerns about possible conflicts of interest, industry sources are reporting. Frank DelRe, 59, president of Western Insurance...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 20 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 19 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
Three More Charged in La. AG’s Crackdown on Contractor Fraud
Nov 9 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that three more individuals have been arrested on charges of theft related to contractor fraud. On Oct. 23, 2006, Richard Eric Williford was arrested by...
Two Honda Sedan Models Lead List of Most Stolen Vehicles in Arizona
Nov 8 2006 // Two Honda sedan models lead the latest list of vehicles most often stolen in Arizona. According to the latest annual study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the 1991 Honda Accord and 1995 Honda Civic were ranked as...
Eight easy strategies for building your agency
Oct 9 2006 // While building a successful agency takes dedication and hard work, it may not be as difficult as you think. A wealth of material exists on the tangible factors and steps necessary for building a successful agency, such as...
Eight easy strategies for building your agency
Oct 9 2006 // While building a successful agency takes dedication and hard work, it may not be as difficult as you think. A wealth of material exists on the tangible factors and steps necessary for building a successful agency, such as...
Five Arrested for Theft Related to Contractor Fraud in La.
Oct 5 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Special Agents made arrests for theft of funds related to alleged contractor fraud in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. On Sept. 25, 2006,...
Two to Head Logistics Initiative in Aon’s Chicago Office
Sep 27 2006 // Chicago-based Aon Corporation announced the appointment of Barbara Spain as senior vice president and relationship manager, and Matt Reese as senior vice president and originator, for Aon Risk Services. Both will drive the...
One Year After Hurricane Rita Texas Insurers Offer Advice
Sep 22 2006 // As we approach the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Rita’s visit to Texas, residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can and have learned a lot about the devastating effects of a hurricane, an insurance industry...
Five Vice Presidents Take New Positions at Blue Shield of California
Sep 20 2006 // Blue Shield of California has appointed three new vice presidents and assigned new responsibilities to two current executives in areas including finance, network management, customer service and information...
Eight Lloyd’s Members to Enter Offshore Energy Center Hall of Fame
Sep 18 2006 // Eight members of the Lloyd’s market are to be honored at the end of the month by becoming some of the first insurance professionals to be inducted into the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) Hall of Fame. A bulletin on the...
Four Texas Cities to Receive Smoke Alarms
Sep 15 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), Travelers Insurance Company and First Alert have joined together to place smoke alarms into the homes of limited income and elderly...
