Latest Alaska Headlines

All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Commissioners, compensation rules, earthquakes made for shaky ground

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...

2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products

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...

Top 10 Stories of the Year – West

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...

2006 New Markets Report

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...

Ark. Starts Insurance Program for Low-Income Workers

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...

Alaska Man Guilty of Reinstating Policy Before Reporting Accident

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...

Legislator Would ban Cell Phone use by Drivers in Ark.

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...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

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...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

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...

Ark. Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud

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...

Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Updating 2007 Kids’ Chance Application

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...

Fine Appointed as Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Judge

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...

Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulators

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...

10 Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulators

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...

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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...

Jones Named Communications Director at Ark. Insurance Department

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...

Ark. Insurance Scam Ring Convicted

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...

Ark. Gov. Blasts Okla. AG

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...

Alaska workers’ comp reforms helping to lower rates

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...

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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...