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Washington Commissioner Ends Med Mal program
Mar 23 2005 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced March 22 that he is closing the voluntary Market Assistance Program for medical malpractice insurance due to a lack of business. Kreidler points out that the...
AIA OPPOSES WASH. BILL LIMITING UNDERWRITING BASED ON DOG BREED:
Mar 21 2005 // If a Washington measure becomes law, responsible pet owners who take care of their animals will face higher insurance costs to subsidize rates for others with dogs more likely to bite, according to the American Insurance...
WASH. COMMISSIONER REFUNDS PREMIUMS TO DOCTORS:
Mar 21 2005 // The Center for Justice & Democracy, a national consumer organization that monitors insurance industry practices, applauded the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner for ordering the state’s...
Washington Bill Asks Insurers to Consider Dogs’ Deeds, not their Breeds
Mar 18 2005 // The only problem Dee Robison has with her favorite Doberman pinscher, Darby, is that the 90-pound pooch gets a little jealous when she turns her attention toward the television. “He’ll just stand there with his...
Washington’s Physicians Insurance Responds to Commissioner’s Consent Order
Mar 8 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company, an insurer that provides coverage to physicians and other health care providers, acknowledged the regulatory actions taken by Washington’s Office of the Insurance...
AIA Opposes Washington Bill Limiting Underwriting Based on Dog Breed
Mar 8 2005 // If a Washington measure becomes law, responsible pet owners who take care of their animals will face higher insurance costs to subsidize rates for others with dogs more likely to bite, according to the American Insurance...
Consumer Group Applauds Washington Commissioner For Refunding Premiums to Doctors
Mar 4 2005 // The Center for Justice & Democracy, a national consumer organization that monitors insurance industry practices, applauded the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner for ordering the state’s...
Washington Dept. of Labor Fines Contractor over Workers’ Comp Violations
Mar 3 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has put Skanska USA Building Inc. on notice that it will lose its certificate to self-insure if it doesn’t improve the way it manages workers’ compensation...
LRC Says Med-Mal Study Shows Need for Tort Reform
Mar 1 2005 // Tort reform proponents in Washington were reportedly not surprised that a report issued Tuesday by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) showed continued escalation in both the frequency and the cost of medical...
Med-Mal Writer ProAssurance to Expand Mid-Atlantic Reach with NCRIC Merger
Feb 28 2005 // Brimingham,Alabanama-based medcial malpractice insurer ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) and NCRIC Group, Inc., our of Washington, D.C., (NASDAQ: NCRI) announced an agreement to merge NCRIC into ProAssurance in a $69.6...
Eliot Who’ TRIA Whoa’ Republicans Outline Insurance Priorities
Feb 21 2005 // Industry Gets Victory on Class Action But Reason to Worry Over TRIA Eliot who? The name Eliot Spitzer was never spoken during a recent gathering of insurance brokers and federal lawmakers in Washington, D.C. At the annual...
Eliot who’ TRIA when’ Republicans Outline Insurance Priorities
Feb 21 2005 // Industry Gets Victory on Class Action but Reason to Worry Over TRIA …. Eliot who? The name Eliot Spitzer that is on the lips of every insurance broker was never spoken during a recent gathering of insurance brokers...
Washington All Industry Day: Associations Discuss Broker Disclosure
Feb 21 2005 // Broker disclosure, medical malpractice reform and credit scoring dominated the discussions at the Washington All Insurance Industry Day at the Capital held Feb. 10. Over 170 independent agents gathered to learn about...
Nations Hazard Insurer Leaves Nationwide Trail
Feb 21 2005 // Even though his files have been stored in the department’s archives since the case was transferred to federal investigators more than a year ago, Ted Bader still keeps tabs on Michael Napadow and Nations Hazard...
Former Washington Governor Appointed to Safeco Board
Feb 18 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco’s board of directors has appointed former Washington State Governor Gary Locke as director, effective immediately. Gov. Locke will be included with the class of directors standing for election at...
AIA Raises Concerns Over Wash. Legislation to Restrict Insurers’ Use of Credit Information
Feb 16 2005 // A proposed law to restrict the use of credit-based insurance scores under consideration by the Washington Legislature is premature and could raise premiums for Washington insurance consumers, according to the American...
Utah Flooding Causes More than $150 Million in Damages
Feb 7 2005 // Southwestern Utah has not been declared a federal disaster area despite more than $150 million in damages caused by flooding in mid-January. St. George and the surrounding areas in Washington County were the hardest hit...
NAMIC Names Detlefsen to Public Policy Post
Feb 4 2005 // Former insurance studies research fellow and strategic public affairs counsel, Robert Detlefsen, Ph.D., has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) as director of public policy. Detlefsen will...
Chances Slim for Washington Med-Mal Legislative Action
Jan 19 2005 // Neither of the two medical malpractice reform initiatives presented to the Legislature this year stands much chance of passing. “Very unlikely,” said Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, chairwoman of the Senate...
Wash. Legislature Delves into Med-Mal Initiatives
Jan 17 2005 // As supporters of two radically different medical malpractice initiatives present their proposals at a Monday legislative hearing, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler is touting new numbers that suggest the crisis...
