Charter Partners USA Inc., a firm that serves an entrepreneurial community of 320 business owners with business services and products, has named Steven H. Lawrence to the newly created position of chief risk officer. Lawrence most recently held the high-profile …
New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Secretary of State Randy Daniels on Monday recognized national “Arson Awareness Week” by encouraging New Yorkers to protect themselves from arson-related insurance fraud. Arson is a serious crime that results in deaths …
An Essex County sheriff’s deputy and a Lawrence police officer have been disciplined for their roles in providing auto accident reports to a Lawrence chiropractic clinic caught in an auto insurance fraud crackdown. Sheriff’s Deputy Anthony Howard and officer Ivan …
The American Insurance Association (AIA) is urging Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (R) to sign the legislation (HB 5200) passed on April 30 by the state legislature to create a terrorism exclusion in the Standard Fire Policy (SFP). “This change will …
New Jersey insurance officials, after reviewing their own test and the results in other states, have decided to permit the use of credit scores in the rating of private passenger auto policies by all insurers. Last year, the Department of …
The Rhode Island Senate on a 25-7 vote passed legislation that would ban smoking in nearly every public place in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Workers’ Safety Act of 2004 (2004 – S2029A), sponsored by Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski (D-Dist. …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week upheld the prison sentence of former state Rep. Thomas Druce, who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 1999 hit-and-run accident that killed a Harrisburg man. Druce pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of …
The state Senate has voted to require pre-litigation screening when patients sue doctors in hopes of weeding out frivolous cases and lowering malpractice insurance premiums. The Senate voted 19-3 to require that a panel made up of a judge, a …
Just hours after Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler formally called upon the industry to come up with a plan to change the way private passenger auto high risks are handled, officials of Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers (CAR), the organization that oversees …
With more than 400 industry professionals on hand, the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc.’s Long Island Regional Awareness Program brought out veterans and newcomers alike for education sessions, marketing venues and more. Attendees heard a keynote address …
