East News for December 2003
- NYSID Publishes Annual Ranking of Automobile Insurance Complaints
 - Mass. Bikers Challenge Rate Decision; Seek Return of $100 Million
 - Mass. Approves Newbury/Dorchester Merger
 - IIANJ Expresses Concerns over Proposed Consumer Privacy Regs
 - Serio Names David Dahl to NYSID’s Captive Group
 - PIANJ Appoints Thomas Henkler to Board of Directors
 - PIANJ Supports DOBI Proposal for “Take-all-Comers” Phase Out
 - S&P Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Berkley’s $750M Universal Shelf Registration
 - Wm. Kramer & Assoc. New Mass. Turnpike Loss Adjuster
 - GEICO to Open New Facility in Buffalo
 - NAII Letter to Mass. Editor Again Stresses Need for Auto Insurance Reform
 - Peter M. Ross Joins Penn Treaty Board
 - Securities Firms Form ‘Excess SIPC’ Protection Insurer; S&P Assigns ‘A+’ Rating
 - NAII Letter to WSJ Calls for Mass. Auto Insurance Reform
 - IIANJ Young Agents Council Donates Christmas Gifts to Foster Children
 - NAII Notes NJ DOBI “Moving Quickly on Auto Reform Regs”
 - IIANJ Comments on DOBI’s “Three Scenarios” and Alternate Underwriting Rules
 - CCBsure Opens New Office in Newton Pa.
 - PIANY’s MetroRAP Selects Kay Giustiniani, Robert Pfeffer for Awards
 - Allstate, Encompass Seek $17 Million in N.J. Fraud Lawsuit against Chiropractors, Related Co.’s
 - Russell Bond & Co. Announces Promotions
 - PIANJ Statement Stresses Consumers’ Right to Choose Auto Insurance
 - Protector Group CEO Robert J. Vaudreuil Named as MAIA Board Chairman
 - Best Affirms FSR of Mercer Insurance Group
 - The PMA Insurance Group Moves Customer Service Center
 - PIANJ Says N.J. DOBI Accepts Plan for Agents to Recoup Expenses
 - New Hires Named at The McIntyre Group
 - Pa. Man Charged in Arson-for-Hire Fraud Scam
 - Workers’ Compensation Specialist Participates in Safety Presentation
 - AIGT Launches MassXpress to Streamline Mass. Automobile Insurance Processing
 - NYMAGIC Public Offering of Two Million Shares Priced at  $24.65 Per Share
 - N.Y. Announces Arrest of 4 Psychotherapists on Insurance Fraud Charges
 - PIANJ Files Court Brief in ‘Standard of Care’ Case
 - Rebuilding of 7 World Trade Center on Schedule
 - PIANJ Comments on N.J.’s Alternate Underwriting, Insurance Scenarios Proposals
 - Penn-America Expresses Sadness at Death of Paul Simon
 - NAII Says N.J. Auto Market Emerging from ’30 Years of Mismanagement’
 - Erie Indemnity Increases Dividend, Authorizes Share Buyback, Sets Management Fee
 - Collins Associates Hires Hudson to Establish N.Y. Office
 - Crackdown on N.Y. No-Fault Fraud Reportedly Begins to Pay Dividends as Costs Show Slight Decline
 - JHA Notes Publication of 2003/2004 Disability Fact Book
 - Eastern Alliance Insurance Group Chooses AgencyPort to Support Valued Agents, Growth and Operational Efficiency
 - Proformance to Acquire MetLife Auto & Home’s Agency Produced N.J. Business
 - N.J. DOBI Issues Advisory on Incorrect Auto Ratings
 - PIANY, PIANJ, PIACT and PIANH Receive Two Association Trends Awards
 - AIA, PIANJ, IIANJ Applaud N.J. Senate’s Rejection of “Verbal Threshold” Bill
 - Fitch Downgrades Harleysville Debt to ‘BBB’; Assigns ‘A’ IFS Rating
 - NAII, Alliance, AIA Unanimous in Opposing N.J. “Verbal Threshold” Bill
 - Marriott Settles WTC Claim for $370 Million
 - PIANY Announces Continuing Education Courses for MetroRAP 2004
 - Trio of Insurers File Largest No-Fault Lawsuit in N.Y. History
 - N.J. Man Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
 - NAII Opposes NYPIUA Extension to Commercial Liability
 - N.J. DOBI Issues Notice on Legion to Surplus Lines Producers
 - The PMA Named ‘One of Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania’
 - PIANJ Congratulates CIC, CISR Designees and Scholarship Recipients
 - Liberty Mutual, MetLife A&H Recoup $2 Million in Fraud Suit against Mass. Lawyers, Medical Clinic
 - S&P Rates Commerce Group and  Proposed Senior Notes ‘BBB’
 - PMA Capital Sells Finite Reinsurance Renewal Rights to Imagine Group
 - AutoOne Insurance to Service NJ PAIP
 - Westfield to Sell WTC Stake to Port Authority
 - Report N.Y. Prosecutors Find More Evidence of Slayings to Collect Life Insurance
 - Harleysville Chairman Michael L. Browne Elected to NAII Board of Governors
 
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