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Wash. Commissioner Earns National Accreditation for State Agency
Jun 20 2001 // Accreditation has been restored to the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC). The announcement was made at the quarterly meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in New...
Washington Regains NAIC Solvency Accreditation By Richard Rambeck
Jun 13 2001 // Washington is again accredited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to monitor the solvency of insurers. State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said regaining accreditation was his top priority when...
CE Program Open for Wash. Agents, Brokers
Jun 12 2001 // A partnership between Knowledge Anywhere, which provides web-based learning solutions for corporations and business professionals, and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington, will allow IIABW members...
The Big ‘I’ Goes to Washington
Jun 4 2001 // It was a new year, a new administration, and a new round of visits on Capitol Hill. Although not as critical a legislation year as past years, the issues remained as pressing as ever, and the 800 attendees of the 25th...
The Big ‘I’ Goes to Washington
May 21 2001 // It was a new year, a new administration, and a new round of visits on Capitol Hill. Although not as critical a legislation year as past years, the issues remained as pressing as ever, and the 800 attendees of the 25th...
A New Confidence in Washington
May 21 2001 // There was a different feeling this year on Capitol Hill. As the independent agents and I straightened our suits and gathered our briefing materials, the pressure seemed to be off in some way. We were there; we were...
Independent Agents to Descend on Washington, D.C.
Apr 30 2001 // More than 600 independent insurance agents will take over the nation’s capital for several days this week as the 25th Annual National Legislative Conference convenes May 2-4 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington,...
Wash. Commissioner Announces New Steps in Holocaust Insurance Campaign
Apr 19 2001 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler expressed disappointment with a number of companies that failed to release the names of Holocaust-era policyholders. Kreidler urged Washington-licensed insurance...
QUAKE MARKET BACK TO NORMAL
Apr 9 2001 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said he expected all insurers offering earthquake insurance in the state to resume writing such coverage no more than 30 days after the Feb. 28 quake that rattled Western...
Shaking Subsides in Washington State Quake Market
Mar 27 2001 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said he expected all insurers offering earthquake insurance in the state to resume writing such coverage no more than 30 days after the Feb. 28 quake that rattled Western...
QUAKE TO COST $1 BILLION
Mar 19 2001 // The insurance industry could pay up to $1 billion in claims to people whose property was damaged by the earthquake that struck Washington State in February, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The preliminary...
Washington Red-Light Camera Bill Passes Senate
Mar 19 2001 // A Washington bill, SB 5610, authorizing the use of traffic safety cameras to detect red-light running, passed the Senate on a 27-to-22 vote. The legislation would allow the use of traffic safety cameras in certain zones to...
Seattle Earthquak Wracks Up Insured Losses
Mar 12 2001 // The most telling number about the earthquake that hit Western Washington on Feb. 28 was neither its 6.8 magnitude nor the fact that it was the largest temblor in the state in more than half a century; it was its depth,...
Crusader, Wash. OIC Settle Policy Fee Dispute
Mar 12 2001 // Less than a week before they were scheduled to be in court for the beginning of what could have been a long and bitter legal fight, the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) and Woodland Hills,...
Insured Losses from Seattle Earthquake Could Reach $1 Billion
Mar 6 2001 // The insurance industry could pay up to $1 billion in claims to people whose property was damaged by the earthquake that struck Washington State last week, according to the Insurance Information Institute. The I.I.I. noted...
Temp Agency Owes Washington State Over $500,000 for Workers’ Comp Misclassifications
Mar 5 2001 // Tacoma-based Labor Ready owes the state close to $500,000 because it misclassified employees when calculating workers’ compensation premiums. Auditors for the Department of Labor and Industries say that the massive...
Kreidler Tells IIABW He Will Create Responsive Regulatory Body
Feb 26 2001 // Washington’s new Insurance Commissioner gave the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington something to hope for at the IIABW Legislative Day in Olympia on Jan. 31. Bill Stauffacher, IIABW lobbyist,...
NAII VOICES PRIVACY CONCERNS
Feb 12 2001 // As part of a Washington coalition of insurers, banks and retailers, the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) spoke out against a privacy bill that the organization maintains would exceed the federal standard...
At Last, A New Commissioner for Washington
Feb 12 2001 // There won’t actually be a lovefest between the insurance industry and new Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler; it will just seem that way by comparison. After eight years of Deborah Senn, the industry...
New Wash. Commissioner Names Key Management
Feb 1 2001 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced that James “Scott” Jarvis will take on the position of Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Protection, heading up the Consumer Advocacy, SHIBA, Holocaust,...
