All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 25 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...
Dec 22 2006 // Low-income workers without health insurance are the targets of a new program announced by Arkansas officials.Enrollment began Dec. 20 for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to...
Dec 14 2006 // An Alaska man has pled guilty to theft in the second degree, a class B felony, stemming from a fraudulent insurance claim, according to the state Division of Insurance Office of Special Prosecution and Appeals. Earlier...
Dec 13 2006 // An Arkansas state senator wants the state to force drivers to hang up their cell phones while driving – or at least own a hands-free device that would allow them to do so.Sen. Kim Hendren filed two competing...
Dec 11 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Dec 10 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Nov 27 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman reported that Carolyn Dixon, the owner of Dixon Insurance in Pocahontas, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to two counts of Insurance Fraud (Class D felony) and one...
Nov 21 2006 // Kids’ Chance of Arkansas Inc. is revising the 2007 application for its annual scholarships, the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported. The application will be available online by mid-January. These...
Nov 20 2006 // O. Milton Fine II, a longtime attorney on Gov. Mike Huckabee’s staff, is the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest Administrative Law Judge, the AWCC reported.The AWCC is administrator of the...
Nov 20 2006 // The insurance commissioner posts in Alaska and Idaho are likely to change, following November’s mid-term elections.In Idaho, U.S. Rep Butch Otter, R, defeated opponent, newspaper publisher Jerry Brady, in the race...
Nov 19 2006 // New governors likely means new appointees10 Colorado election could affect key insurance issues “Ethics in government” amendment could have “chilling impact”11 Oregon insurance division to sponsor...
Nov 19 2006 // Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulatorsThe insurance commissioner posts in Alaska and Idaho are likely to change, following November’s mid-term elections. In Idaho, U.S. Rep Butch Otter, R, defeated...
Nov 14 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman has named Alice Jones as the Arkansas Insurance Department’s new communications director. Her primary responsibilities at the Department will be working with the...
Nov 14 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced that on Oct. 27, 2006, Curtis Moore of Jonesboro entered a negotiated plea of guilty to one count of Class B felony Theft of Property for his involvement in...
Oct 13 2006 // Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is playing politics by demonizing the poultry industry and setting unrealistic goals for reduced pollution levels in Oklahoma’s...
Oct 9 2006 // Alaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski has announced he is pleased that workers’ compensation system reforms proposed by the administration and enacted last year by the Legislature have led to a proposed 10.5 percent...
Oct 9 2006 // Alaska workers’ comp reforms helping to lower ratesAlaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski has announced he is pleased that workers’ compensation system reforms proposed by the administration and enacted last year by...