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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...
Glass Company Ordered to Stop Windshield Rebates in Wash.
Feb 23 2007 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has ordered a national glass company to stop offering rebates to consumers who have their damaged vehicle windshields replaced by the company because the rebates violate...
Wash. Counties Declared Federal Disaster Areas for December Storms
Feb 21 2007 // President Bush has declared a major disaster in 19 Washington counties and approved federal money to help with state and local recovery efforts from the Dec. 14-15 winter storm. The federal money is intended to help with...
President Bush Declares Disaster in Washington for December Storm
Feb 16 2007 // President Bush on Feb. 14 declared a major disaster in 19 Washington counties and approved federal money to help with state and local recovery efforts from the Dec. 14-15 winter storm. The federal money is intended to help...
Agents Prepare for Legislative Summit in Washington
Feb 13 2007 // Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents will convene on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 28 and 29, 2007 for their 25th annual Federal Legislative Summit. The 2007 PIA Federal...
Washington To Hold Hearing on Purchase of Dental Malpractice Insurer
Feb 13 2007 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has scheduled a Feb. 26 public hearing in Tumwater, Wash., to consider a request by the Washington Dental Association and a Portland, Ore., company to acquire a...
Fla. pols to lobby Washington for national catastrophe fund
Feb 12 2007 // After the Florida Legislature passed a bill that lawmakers say will address the state’s insurance problems, Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders said their attention will be on pushing for a national...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Levees of Concern
Feb 11 2007 // CT: East Hartford CT: Torrington, East Branch CT: Torrington, West Branch CT: Waterbury-Watertown, Upper Naugatuck Dike DC: National Park Service, Washington, DC DC: Potomac Park Levee, Washington, DC DC: US Naval Air...
La. Officials Urge Federal Role in Hurricane Insurance
Feb 8 2007 // Louisiana state senators say they will ask Congress to have the federal government insure homes against hurricane damage, as it does for floods. “Y’all won’t sell it, so why not get the federal government...
