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Two Calif. Insurers File For Rate Reductions
Sep 15 2006 // Two insurers have filed for rate decreases in California. According to the California Department of Insurance, 21st Century, the state’s fifth largest auto insurer, with more than 740,000 policy holders, is seeking a...
Five Years Later, House and Senate Move Port Security Measure
Sep 10 2006 // Days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Senate announced agreement on ports security legislation, hoping to approve bolstered protections before November’s elections to stop nuclear materials...
Five Seek to Define N.Y. Attorney General Role After Spitzer
Sep 5 2006 // Democrat Eliot Spitzer has tackled illegal trading on Wall Street and fraudulent deals in the insurance industry and sued the federal government to force environmental protections in his nearly eight years as attorney...
Six in 10 businesses now buying terror coverage, Marsh reports
Sep 4 2006 // Nearly six in 10 large and mid-sized U.S. businesses obtained insurance to cover property terrorism risks during 2005, a dramatic increase from the 2003 average of 27 percent and up from 50 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, the...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
One Year Later: Reflections on White House Handling of Katrina
Aug 29 2006 // Hurricane Katrina lashed President Bush’s image as a take-charge commander in chief when it battered and deluged the Gulf Coast. Ever since, the president has sought to overcome the political damage done when he...
Four Arrested Following LSU Stadium Fire
Aug 24 2006 // A witness who spotted a group of suspicious people near Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium provided police with key information that led to the arrests of four juveniles following a fire at the...
Two Plead Guilty in La. Following Workers’ Comp Investigation
Aug 23 2006 // A Lake Charles, La., man pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud Aug. 21 following a surveillance investigation by Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) and a series of court rulings favorable to the...
Two Riverside Residents Arrested for Grand Theft, Perjury
Aug 23 2006 // Following a 10-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Investigation Division, two Riverside, Calif., residents have been arrested. Kent Morgan, 43, of Murrieta, and owner of Rancho Bail...
Seven ways to sell more insurance while wearing a golf sweater
Aug 21 2006 // You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she plays golf. A match is a mirror into the person’s attitude, ethics and behavior. It is why many agents and company people host the game to entertain, impress and...
Seven ways to sell more insurance while wearing a golf sweater
Aug 21 2006 // You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she plays golf. A match is a mirror into the person’s attitude, ethics and behavior. It is why many agents and company people host the game to entertain, impress and...
Two Dead, One Missing in Ill. in Attempt to Save Boy from Drowning
Aug 15 2006 // Two people died and a third was missing and presumed drowned Sunday in an attempt to rescue a young boy from the swirling water near a dam on the Kankakee River in Wilmington, Ill. authorities said. Although Brian Santoyo,...
Nine Players – Including Agent – in World Series of Poker
Aug 10 2006 // Nine players — four pros, a former talent agent, an insurance broker, an ad salesman, a recent college grad and a retired businessman — were all that remained from a field of more than 8,700 hopefuls vying for...
Three Managed Care Groups Get $4.4 Billion for Hoosier Healthwise
Aug 8 2006 // Approximately 535,000 Indiana residents enrolled in the Hoosier Healthwise insurance program will gain more choices for their medical care on Jan. 1, 2007 through three managed care organizations, Indiana state officials...
Three Arrested for Staging Florida PIP Fraud Accidents
Aug 8 2006 // Three individuals, including a father and daughter have been arrested and face felony charges stemming from staged accidents and $40,000 in fraudulent auto insurance billings according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s...
Three Californians Arrested for Submitting Bogus Claims
Jul 28 2006 // Two of three suspects in California, allegedly involved in a conspiracy and grand theft case from the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA), are scheduled to be arraigned on 62 felony counts, the California...
One Home Lost to Wildfire in Western Montana
Jul 24 2006 // A wildfire in western Montana destroyed a house and two outbuildings, a U.S. Forest Service official said Saturday. The fire, which has scorched about 4 square miles, is one of five large blazes in Montana, according to...
Two Miami Adjusters Arrested in $400,000 Hurricane Fraud Case
Jul 21 2006 // Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial...
Three Arrested in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Hospital Deaths
Jul 19 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has made three arrests in the investigation surrounding patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. The...
