Currents for January 2007

• Keys to surviving it and thriving from it
• LIRC says Citizens can raise rates
• Highlights of Delaware’s workers’ comp changes
• Report: Drivers’ age, gender factors in severity of accident injuries
• Enron’s legacies and directors and officers risk
• New Markets
• Hundreds of Seattle residents want city to pay for flood damage
• Windstorm expected to be major insurance issue for Texas lawmakers
• A look behind the very good P/C results for 2006
• Report: 148 places around Hawaii lack emergency sirens, state lacks funding
• Industry leaders debate regulation in wake of Democratic Congress shift
• R.I. lawmakers study ways to assist coastal homeowners
• Oregon task force aims to improve construction
• Report: Drivers’ age, gender factors in severity of accident injuries
• Under new rules, bytes of electronically stored info could have big bite
• Remapping California flood zones might spur wave of policy sales
• Emergency declaration allows more claims adjusters in Okla.
• How Democratic Congress might approach federal insurance
• Report: Customer satisfaction doesn’t guarantee loyalty
• In 2006, largest P/C losses occurred inland
• Delaware agent groups to merge
• Man’s cell phone ignites in pocket
• Producer appointments available online in Ark.
• Insurer to investigate Vermont diocese’s sex abuse
• Calif. Insurance Commissioner Poizner sworn in
• Ind. leads country with highest catastrophe losses in 2006
• Insurers gain access to Mass. diocese abuse files
• Kentucky judge permits Christians-only health plan to continue
• Largest Ill. medical malpractice insurer lifts moratorium on new business
• N.Y.’s Interboro back in business
• There’s a lot insurers do not like in Florida’s property insurance fix
• Ill. developer plans to build 11 homes on Segal estate
• Commercial insurers’ stocks reflect 4th quarter profits, calm storm season
• New insurance commissioner in Tennessee
• Minn. boy sues parents over injuries in accident
• Pricing discipline key to P/C insurers’ repeat performance in 2007
• Calif. declares insurance claims emergency in wake of cold freeze
• Snowbirds flee Florida’s hot insurance rates
• Conn. AG seeks to block shutter requirement
• Billions at stake as Supreme Court weighs credit notice standards
• Biggest U.S. property cat losses in 2006 were away from coasts
• Wind subsidies for Mississippi
• Mass. Gov. Patrick replaces commissioner; halts high risk plan
• Homeowners win key water v. wind Katrina claims case against State Farm
• Calif. reaches resolution with insurers over legal fees
• Injured Ark. trucker wins court order for rehearing
• Royal & Sun Alliance management buyout faces opposition
• Demotech named official Insurance Journal Research Partner
• Silicon Valley oenophiles on alert after brazen wine heist
• La. police officer resigns after fraud accusation
• Delaware enacts major workers comp system reform package
• Study: 20% of customers consider switching insurers after collision
• ‘Snowbirds’ not protected by Florida state law, court rules
• Private equity market increasingly bullish on insurance and E&S
• Florida report finds small, new firms and construction gaps in workers’ comp availability
• Conn. Gov. Rell to replace Cogswell as insurance commissioner
• Reinsurers dropping rates except for wind-prone U.S. properties
• Former R.I. Gov. Sundlun and Lloyd’s at odds
• S.C. drivers face higher limits in new year
• N.H. private school says insurer didn’t do flood insurance homework; sues for buildings’ damages
• Tornadoes deliver Christmas disaster for Floridians
• AJG resolves federal class action case
• Late storm binge has Western states singing holiday claims blues
• Miss. vows insurance consumers’ bill of rights
• Chubb ends contingent commissions
• Oregon Archdiocese reorganization plan calls for $75 million settlement
• Warm winter helps Georgia lower fire death
• N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs bring another suit, this time against Acordia
• Oregon promotes best practices with IMSA membership
• 28.5 million holiday party hosts likely underinsured, study says
• BOPping in on employment practices liability insurance
• Arson convictions now being questioned
• La. judge: Insurers liable for water
• Drunk driving death rates decline in 23 states
• Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk
• Dissecting a claims made policy
• 13 states file briefs against credit scoring
• California workers’ comp reforms working
• Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state courts
• Despite Katrina lessons, Congress keeps extending flood insurance
• Colorado, Idaho Gov.-elects appoint insurance department heads
• Ark. starts insurance plan for low-income workers
• Absence of hurricane losses proves beneficial to insurers’ bottomline
• Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers auto rates in Colorado
• Mexican truck travel still limited
• In Memoriam: Robert Hoye dies
• Dissecting a claims made policy
• Reinsurance rates falling or flat, Willis reports
• 28.5 million holiday party hosts likely underinsured, study says
• Miss. AG’s Katrina case moved to state court
• Insurers seek Indiana Supreme Court review of family’s damage award

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