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COMP CLAIM RATE DOWN, COST UP:

The number of paid workers’ compensation claims fell 22 percent relative to the number of employees from 2000 to 2003,...

HOUSE GIVES PLICO TWO MORE YEARS

The Oklahoma House passed a measure giving the state’s major medical malpractice insurer two more years to build up its...

FINKE CONFIRMED AS COMMISSIONER:

Gov. Matt Blunt’s nominee for insurance director overcame criticism of the way he was selected to be confirmed by the...

DRUNK DRIVING LEGISLATION

Legislation that would require repeat drunken drivers to have alcohol detection devices installed in their vehicles before they could regain...

GOVERNOR APPOINTS INSURANCE PANEL

Alabama Insur-ance Commissioner Walter A. Bell will chair a 20-member insurance panel app-ointed by Gov. Bob Riley to study hurricane...

CE CREDITS APPROVED FOR SAFETY SUMMIT

The Texas Department of Insurance has approved continuing education credits for insurance adjusters for breakout sessions offered at the 9th...

GENERAL RE UNDER SCRUTINY:

General Reinsurance, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been subpoenaed in an investigation of Reciprocal of America, a former...

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