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COMMISSIONER REDMER EXITS:

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer has left his job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a...

SEDANS LOSE APPEAL:

The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund has prevailed over a challenge to its most recent 52.8 percent increase in rate for...

IIAG OFFERS FLOOD INSURANCE EDUCATION

Flood insurance education to meet National Flood Insurance Program requirements is being offered by the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia...

DWI CASES THROWN OUT:

A Fairfax County judge who believes Virginia’s drunken driving laws are unconstitutional has resumed his practice of dismissing all DWI...

MEDICAL ASSURANCE CO. DROPS RATES

Medical Assurance Co. of Mississippi, a physician owned provider which covers about 70 percent of the state’s physicians, has announced...

HAMPTON TAKES OVER:

Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams appointed Thomas Hampton as the Acting Commissioner of D.C.’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking,...

ATTORNEY GENERAL TARGETS SCAMS

The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office is beefing up its Fraud Division staff to reduce a backlog of cases and...

“KNIGHT” SUES DINNER THEATER:

A former employee performing as a jousting “knight” at a Medieval Times dinner theater in Illinois has filed a federal...

HURRICANE PLANS TWEAKED

Emergency workers along the South Carolina coast are tweaking hurricane preparedness plans in the wake of Gulf Coast storms Katrina...

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