Currents for August 2006

• Beacon Mutual search
• Vermont captive industry celebrates 25th birthday in grateful state
• It Figures
• Oklahoma, Texas have most uninsured children
• Hurricane forecasts lighten up
• Finding the ‘Road Home’ in Louisiana
• Small is safer
• More drought relief needed in Oklahoma
• It Figures
• No reinsurance for Louisiana cost Allstate $2 billion
• Safer cars, not better drivers, behind fewer roadway deaths
• Lawyers group pulls surfing contest sponsorship for fear of being sued
• Shareholders lose out in class action securities settlements, study says
• Every W. Va. employer targeted for workers’ comp audit
• Hawaii becomes the first state in the nation to order anti-viral flu drugs
• It Figures
• It Figures
• New crop insurance tools
• New Mexico insurance official is formally fired
• Mich. Supreme Court’s stand on asbestos cases could impact other states
• California agents-brokers face new rule
• Brokers experience ‘exceptional’ second quarter; vigorous M&A activity
• Judge denies California insurers’ lawsuit to stop auto rate regs
• Making the most out of each outside sales call
• Poll reveals misconceptions about renter’s insurance
• Texas agent duplicates first ever hole-in-one
• It Figures
• Over-prescribing doctor tops Florida list of 10 ‘costliest, boldest’ scammers
• Directors and officers market ripe for U.K. buyers
• Competing on personal lines service
• Florida moving ahead with commercial lines reinsurance pool
• St. Paul Travelers’ 2nd quarter profits dip 9%
• Delaware struggles to realize workers comp reform
• Citizens agrees to renew, write new builder’s risk coverage in Florida
• Sample Partnership
• Liability contracts could complicate Big Dig recovery efforts
• Vesta liquidation by Texas felt from Florida to Mass.
• Employers’ workers’ comp costs rose faster than benefit payments in 2004
• Missing computer holding personal data of 540,000 people found
• California insurers sue department to stop auto insurance regulations
• Optional Federal Charter ‘legislation of the worst kind,’ says PIA exec
• Hawaii obtains reinsurance to take control of Vesta subsidiary
• Allstate beats Wall Street projections, Q2 profit up by 5 percent
• Lawyer says New Mexico insurance official probably was fired
• Ill. Attorney General holds identity theft summit, state ranks 10th
• French executive pleads guilty in Executive Life case
• Allstate; La. commissioner attempt dispute resolution
• U.S. Corps finds some Sacramento levees not up to standard
• Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma
• Colorado workers’ comp premium holds steady
• It figures
• Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii lead nation for drownings
• Ark. town puts down uninsured pit bulls
• Risk retention groups sustaining profitability
• Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholders
• House bill would establish national disaster commission with agent member
• Texas denies State Farm rate hike
• Is the U.S. prepared for a cyber catastrophe? Business executives say, ‘no’
• Fla., Miss., S.C. top five in flood insurance growth
• Protecting your most valuable assets overseas
• Florida offers grants to encourage hurricane damage mitigation
• Congressional hearing held on terrorism and insurance

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