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Washington Issues Multiple Enforcement Actions
Aug 4 2006 // The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner has initiated the following enforcement actions: * Issued a $150,000 fine ($75,000 suspended) against Western National Assurance Co., Edina, Minn., for multiple...
Washington Employers Invited to Join Workers’ Comp Pilot
Aug 1 2006 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has begun enrolling employers who want to participate in a new way of reporting claims for workplace injuries and occupational diseases. Injured workers in...
Mt. Washington Names Brack N.H. Marketing Rep
Jul 28 2006 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation in New Hampshire has named Albert F. Brack, III as a marketing representative. In this role Brack will manage the firm’s relationships with independent insurance agencies in the...
ICW Group Hires Lettus for Washington Branch
Jul 26 2006 // ICW Group has hired Raymond Lettus to become the senior production underwriter of commercial property and catastrophe lines of business, for the branch office in Bellevue, Wash. Lettus will be responsible for the ongoing...
Hail Storm Keeps Mt. Washington’s ‘Crashbuster’ Van Totally Busy
Jul 25 2006 // “It was like Armageddon,” independent agent Pam Sakowski says of the hailstorm that hammered Exeter, New Hampshire, on July 11. Sakowski, who owns the Ray F. MacDonald Agency in Durham, was visiting her friends...
Former FEMA director promotes government-industry disaster mediation
Jul 24 2006 // News Currents Federal and state governments should work with private insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs, according to a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. James Lee Witt,...
Washington fines Geico $120,000 for credit-scoring violations
Jul 24 2006 // Washington state’s insurance commissioner fined four Geico Inc. insurance companies $120,000, alleging they used an unapproved scoring model to evaluate and offer personal auto coverage to consumers two years...
Big ‘I’ exec tells agents federal charter is a ‘recipe for disaster’
Jul 24 2006 // If a mandatory or even an optional Federal Charter is implemented in Washington, D.C., it will be a “recipe for disaster,” says Charles E. Symington Jr., Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of...
Minn. Western National Named to Ward’s 2006 Top 50
Jul 19 2006 // Minnesota-based Western National Insurance Group has been named to the 2006 Ward’s 50 group of top performing property/casualty companies in the United States. The designation recognizes Western National for...
Washington Commissioner Hits Wrong Note on Use of Credit, Insurers Say
Jul 18 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today said recent comments by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler about insurer use of credit are off-the-mark and ignore established consensus on the...
Occupational Health Program Returns Washingtonians To Work Quicker
Jul 17 2006 // Injured workers in three Eastern Washington counties were 33 percent less likely to miss work and collect wage-replacement benefits if they were treated by doctors participating in a Department of Labor and Industries...
Unigard introduces FlexAuto program in Washington
Jul 10 2006 // Unigard Insurance Group has introduced its FlexAuto auto insurance program to independent agents in Washington. The program provides agents direct access to its policy rating process and features Precise Pricing, a rating...
Washington Fines Geico $120,000 for Credit-Scoring Violations
Jul 5 2006 // Washington state’s insurance commissioner fined four Geico Inc. insurance companies $120,000, alleging they used an unapproved scoring model to evaluate and offer personal auto coverage to consumers two years...
Washington Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Increase 3.5 Percent
Jul 5 2006 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase. State law requires that benefits be recalculated each July 1 to...
Washington’s Ethel Adams legislation takes effect
Jul 3 2006 // Legislation changing the uninsured motorist law in Washington that is named in honor of accident victim Ethel Adams has taken effect. Adams was injured in an automobile accident in 2005 when her car was hit during an...
Things that should keep you awake at night
Jul 3 2006 // The integration of the U.S. insurance market and global financial market will have a profound impact on business, according to Dave Zwiener, president and chief operating officer of Property and Casualty Operations for The...
8 Washington policyholders to share in Aon settlement
Jul 3 2006 // 8 Federal insurance antitrust exemption: friend or foe? 9 California’s mandatory investment reporting unnecessary 10 Three insurers sue to recover claims paid in 2002 wildfire 10 Washington’s Ethel Adams...
News Currents
Jul 3 2006 // Washington policyholders to share in Aon settlement More than 9,500 insurance clients of Aon Corp. in Washington are qualified to share $2.4 million in restitution as part of an agreement signed by Insurance Commissioner...
Floods, Mudslides Alter Busy Routines in D.C.-Maryland Area
Jun 28 2006 // In Washington, D.C., a city that always seems to be in a hurry, this week’s soggy weather forced almost everyone to slow down. Water and mudslides blocked highways. Commuter rail lines sputtered. Some federal office...
Washington Policyholders to Share in Aon Settlement
Jun 26 2006 // More than 9,500 insurance clients of Aon Corp. in Washington are qualified to share $2.4 million in restitution as part of an agreement signed by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. Kreidler said the restitution is part...
