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Fraud Roundup
Mar 26 2007 // Washington appoints advisory board Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a special advisory board to monitor the agency’s fraud unit. Earlier this year, the agency’s eight-member Special...
Agents Hit U.S. Chamber Backing of Federal Insurance Regulation
Mar 26 2007 // As they prepare to converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with federal legislators, insurance agents are targeting a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsement of federal insurance regulation for criticism. The National...
Fraud Roundup
Mar 26 2007 // Washington appoints advisory board Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a special advisory board to monitor the agency’s fraud unit. Earlier this year, the agency’s eight-member Special...
Washington warming to national disaster plan idea
Mar 26 2007 // Sen. Dodd says hurricane and flood disasters are not just a local issue, but a national one A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood insurance markets appears to be gaining momentum in...
News Currents
Mar 26 2007 // Washington warming to national disaster plan idea Sen. Dodd says hurricane and flood disasters are not just a local issue, but a national one A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood...
Wash. Sets Guidelines for Prescribing Narcotics
Mar 22 2007 // Washington health officials have published new guidelines to help doctors evaluate and monitor dosage levels of narcotics prescribed to treat patients with chronic pain. The guidelines are part of a year-long educational...
Allianz Joins Institutions to Urge Congress to Act on Climate Change
Mar 20 2007 // Money talks and $4 trillion talks very loudly. So loud in fact that a number of institutional investors, who manage a total of $4 trillion in assets, hope to get the attention of U.S. lawmakers. Their goal is to convince...
Washington Appoints Advisory Board for Fraud Unit
Mar 19 2007 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has appointed a special advisory board to monitor the effectiveness of the agency’s newly launched fraud unit. Earlier this year, the agency’s eight-member...
Washington Warming to National Disaster Plan Idea
Mar 16 2007 // A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood insurance markets appears to be gaining momentum in Washington. This week, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services...
Wash. Commissioner To Chair Market Analysis Working Group
Mar 13 2007 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) announced that Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler will chair the Market Analysis Working Group (MAWG) to emphasize the importance of...
Wash. Officials Revise School Bus Safety Rules
Feb 28 2007 // Washington state officials are trying to find new ways to ensure that school bus drivers are properly licensed, following an investigation that showed six around the state were working with suspended licenses. Last week,...
Insurance Agents, Brokers Host Industry Legislative Day in Washington
Feb 27 2007 // On March 20, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington, Surplus Line Association of Washington, Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West, Property Casusalty Insurers, American Insurance Association,...
The Commissioners: Thomas Hampton
Feb 26 2007 // D.C. growing its captive market, escaping worst of property pullbacks Thomas Hampton, commissioner of the District of Columbia Department of Securities, Insurance and Banking. Hampton, who was reappointed to his post by...
Washington’s 2007 Legislative agenda targets license reform
Feb 26 2007 // Washington Insurance Com-missioner Mike Kreidler recently promulgated his agency’s proposals for the 2007 Legislative session. Of nine proposals, Sandi Peck, deputy commissioner of public affairs for the Washington...
Fraud Roundup
Feb 26 2007 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the company’s use of unapproved contracts...
Thomas Hampton, District of Columbia, Commissioner, Department of Securities, Insurance and Banking
Feb 25 2007 // Thomas Hampton, commissioner of the District of Columbia Department of Securities, Insurance and Banking. Hampton, who was reappointed to his post by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in January, discusses the District’s...
Washington’s 2007 Legislative agenda targets license reform
Feb 25 2007 // The commissioner’s office feels the current process for licensing insurance agents and brokers in Washington is an antiquated, paper-dependent system lacking efficiency and interstate consistency rooted in a...
Fraud Roundup
Feb 25 2007 // Washington takes enforcement actions Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the...
Accredited Adviser Seminars To Be Held in Washington
Feb 23 2007 // The American Institute for CPCU and the Insurance Institute of America (AICPCU/IIA) have signed an agreement with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington (IIABW) to give seminars based on the...
Bliss & Glennon Expands in Washington
Feb 23 2007 // Bliss and Glennon Inc., managing general agents and surplus lines brokers, has opened a new regional office in Lynnwood, Wash. With this recent expansion, the company will write business and place risks in the entire...
