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Med-Mal Cover Available in Ark.

Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens recently assured Arkansas doctors that medical malpractice insurance is still available in the state. Pickens...

INSURER EXITS CALIF. HOMEOWNERS

According to the Los Angeles Times, after a threeyear experiment, California-based 21st Century Insurance has decided to stop selling homeowners...

McDermott favored in La. Case

Judge Sarah S. Vance of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a ruling Jan. 4,...

DIR APPROVES PLAN

The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation...

Home linked to Frankel Case Sold

Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale sold a home seized from a principal in the Martin Frankel financial fraud case and...

TOP 2002 LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS

Challenges to the use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating, and consumer privacy matters related to the Gramm/Leach/Bliley Act...

PIFC WANTS HELMET LAW TO REMAIN

A bill that would permit motorcyclists 18 and older to discard their helmets will do nothing but increase the number...

HAMMES FEATURED AT IIAT SEMINAR

More than 350 of the state’s most progressive and influential agency principals and managers will gather for the Independent Insurance...

NO TERROR EXCLUSIONS FOR CALIF.

According to a Jan. 7, Los Angeles Times article, California has refused to allow insurers to adopt terrorism exclusion language,...

EEOC SUES, AllSTATE DISAPPOINTED

The Allstate Corporation has expressed its displeasure with the Equal Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) lawsuit against its Allstate Insurance Company subsidiary...

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