All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2007 // British Petroleum and several of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay approximately $373 million in fines and restitution for environmental violations, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The sanctions stem from a...
Oct 24 2007 // The rate of job injuries and illnesses in private industry in Arkansas declined last year to 4.4 per 100 full-time workers – the lowest rate in 14 years, the Arkansas Labor Department said.The rate in 2005 was 5.0,...
Oct 22 2007 // Pit bull owners in Arkadelphia, Ark., will have to carry $100,000 of liability insurance, implant microchips in their dogs and keep them fenced under new rules passed by the city board.The new rules take effect in 90 days...
Oct 8 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum workers’ comp rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory...
Oct 8 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum workers’ comp rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory...
Oct 2 2007 // Alaska forestry officials are planning a series of prescribed burns to torch debris piles that have built up over the past three years.It’s part of a wildfire protection effort being implemented by the Alaska...
Oct 1 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory 2007-1 sets $169,650...
Sep 14 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced that Arkansas stands to receive more than $224,000 as a result of a regulatory settlement agreement between United Healthcare Insurance and 36 states and the...
Sep 7 2007 // Ark. Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman will head to various Arkansas communities the third week of September to field questions from insurance consumers, the Arkansas Insurance Department reported.Commissioner...
Sep 6 2007 // The 33 residents of the Holley Mountain Airpark in rural Van Buren County, Ark., enjoy a break on their home-insurance rates that most residents of cities around the state would envy: A Class 1 rating.That rating, the...
Sep 5 2007 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Mississippi-based BancorpSouth Bank, announced it reached an agreement to acquire Insurance Network of Jonesboro, Ark., effective Sept. 1, 2007.Insurance Network will...
Sep 3 2007 // A ruling by the Alaska State Supreme Court requiring insurers to re-rate all policies at the very first renewal as if credit information was never considered will have the unintended result of forcing good insurance risks...
Sep 3 2007 // A ruling by the Alaska State Supreme Court requiring insurers to re-rate all policies at the very first renewal as if credit information was never considered will have the unintended result of forcing good insurance risks...
Sep 3 2007 // All must show proof of workers’ comp insuranceResidential contractors in Arkansas who own their own businesses may opt out of workers’ compensation coverage for themselves, but must purchase it for their...
Sep 3 2007 // Residential contractors in Arkansas who own their own businesses may opt out of workers’ compensation coverage for themselves, but must purchase it for their business, according to a bulletin recently issued by state...
Aug 29 2007 // Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe and members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation called for increased funding of a federal health insurance program this week, and said a potential veto by President Bush could hurt the...
Aug 23 2007 // The Alaska Supreme Court has decided a case that could open the door to disability claims from millions of wireless industry or maintenance workers who experience occupational exposures to operating antenna arrays,...
Aug 22 2007 // A ruling by the Alaska State Supreme Court requiring insurers to re-rate all policies at the very first renewal as if credit information was never considered will have the unintended result of forcing good insurance risks...
Aug 21 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced former insurance agent John Phillip Middleton, a Van Buren resident with an office in Fort Smith, has been sentenced by Judge James Cox, Sebastian County...
Aug 14 2007 // For the past two months, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage has been unable to locate a laptop containing confidential information for up to 250 cancer patients.The records include those of patients seen between...