Currents for December 2006

• NFL Steeler Webster’s estate awarded disability benefits
• New rules mean bytes could produce a big bite
• Impact of Enron on directors and officers insurance
• State liquor store, homeowner blamed in N.H. drunk driving death
• It Figures
• October, November see 29 M&As; stock prices continue to vary
• Declarations
• Miss. art museum relocation awaits FEMA, insurance monies
• It Figures
• Declarations
• Insurers, agents worry Conn. coastal rules could make matters worse
• Kentucky aids small businesses with insurance
• Mass. closes in on long-awaited transition to auto assigned risk plan
• Sen. Lott pushes law on storm-totaled vehicles
• Spitzer taps investigator Dinallo to be N.Y. insurance chief
• W.Va. report on Sago Mine blast leaves many questions unasnwered
• Arson convictions now being questioned
• Brown & Brown settlement with Florida: no charges, no guilt, no fines
• Report recommends phase-out of Pennsylvania med-mal subsidies
• Private equity market increasingly bullish on insurance and E&S
• AAA holiday concerns: speeding triples odds of crashing
• Miss. court: rental firm not liable if driver lies
• Arson convictions now being questioned
• California agents may get more calls from uninsured motorists
• It Figures
• National Council on Compensation Insurance proposes increase for workers’ comp loss cost rates
• No rule change for Allstate in La.
• Declarations
• Declarations
• Hawaii issues captive license to MHC Insurance
• ID theft warning in Okla.
• It Figures
• Flooded Maine family blames faulty federal maps
• In buying back, what did I buy?
• How to hold your ground against the Internet marketers
• Employers offering health coverage in California declining
• St. Paul Travelers to cease renewing some commercial accounts in New Orleans
• In Mass., Big Dig lawsuit cites 3 insurers among 15 defendants
• National company dumps jockey insurance in Montana
• A state-based insurance safety net
• Conn. pursues loss mitigation, market alternatives for coastal homes
• Number of western businesses buying property terrorism coverage increases dramatically
• Private equity market bullish on E&S brokers
• For regional carriers, predictive modeling is about more than pricing
• Safeco lists on NYSE, hopes to grow by improving agent incentives
• It Figures
• A state-based insurance safety net
• Declarations
• Texas commissioner approves TWIA rate hike
• Court passes on Beacon Mutual appointments
• It Figures
• Declarations
• Mass. employee smoking over firing
• St. George, Utah, tanked most secure place to live
• La.’s Gov. Blanco calls special session
• N.Y. auto profits hit
• Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules
• Fla. special session will tackle insurance, vows incoming Gov. Crist
• Ill. director looks at new options for urban markets
• Declarations
• Motor vehicle theft declines in California, but violent crime increases
• Miss. recovery impeded by business insurance hikes
• Indiana’s McGowan Group named ‘2006 Agency of the Year’
• It Figures
• Liquor distributors not liable for drunken driving crash
• The real George Dale
• Understanding D&O risks, exposures and insurance options
• Personality plus or minus in sales
• Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest
• A state-based insurance safety net
• A state-based insurance safety net
• Zurich agrees to terms to close multi-state bid-rigging probe
• Dissecting a claims made policy
• Fla. businesses bemoan skyrocketing insurance costs
• It Figures
• 4.4 million Mattel ‘Polly Pocket’ toys recalled after kids swallow magnets
• A state-based insurance safety net
• It Figures
• Wis. Insurance Commissioner Gomez resigns
• Insurers urge Supreme Court to overturn 9th Circuit ruling on credit scoring
• Political furor arises over proposed SW Idaho flood map expansion
• Declarations
• Declarations
• It’s ‘haves’ vs. ‘have-nots’ in insurance technology race for survival
• CA State Fund files rate decrease
• Suit against Miss. agent over flood policy advances
• Neb. insurers argue against benefits for state trooper in suicide case
• Lost in translation
• Colo. imposes new procedures for surplus lines
• Judge rules in favor of plaintiffs in New Orleans canal case
• Conn. agents could face fight on contingent pay

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