All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2004 // No effort is planned in the upcoming Arkansas legislative session to gain approval for a measure that would limit damages that could be awarded in suits against nursing homes, a top industry official says.A measure to cap...
Nov 11 2004 // Insurance Journal recently had the opportunity to speak with Arkansas Insurance Commissioner and former president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens about the time he spent in Iraq earlier...
Oct 22 2004 // The Arkansas Insurance Department has scheduled a public hearing on Nov. 23, 2004, to determine whether the Arkansas Insurance Commissioner should adopt Proposed Amended Rule and Regulation 19, “Unfair Sex...
Oct 22 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) recently released its annual revision of Advisory 2000-1, which announces the amounts to be paid to injured workers under the state’s workers’...
Oct 6 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that a 2004 supplement to The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Laws and Rules Annotated, published by LexisNexis, is now available. The 2004 supplement...
Sep 20 2004 // At press time for this issue of Insurance Journal, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher was in Anchorage, Alaska, attending a meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He may be enjoying...
Sep 17 2004 // Effective Sept. 30, 2004, the Arkansas Insurance Department will no longer require a non-resident individual to provide a current home state certification with a new license application or for a license renewal if the...
Sep 15 2004 // Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe announced that his office has reached a settlement with Advocat Inc. of Franklin, Tenn., operating in Arkansas as Diversicare Management Services, to resolve a series of lawsuits and...
Aug 6 2004 // The Arkansas Insurance Department reported it has received information indicating some automobile insurance companies are denying reinstatement, refusing to write, or raising premium rates for members of the U.S. Armed...
Aug 3 2004 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced the acquisition of Arkansas-based Hardin & Wilson Inc., of Little Rock. Hardin & Wilson, with annualized revenues of approximately $1.2 million, is a full-service commercial...
Jul 22 2004 // Acknowledging that Arkansas law imposes minimal restrictions on underwriting, the Arkansas Insurance Department nevertheless announced that it expects property and casualty insurers to give proper attention to the explicit...
Jul 13 2004 // An Arkansas utility installation company’s alleged failure to protect employees from trenching and excavation hazards has resulted in proposed penalties of $95,000 from the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Jul 2 2004 // Even though Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens narrowly escaped a car bombing in Baghdad, he says many parts of Iraq are peaceful and he wouldn’t mind returning, the Associated Press reported.“But if...
May 25 2004 // Attorney General Mike Beebe announced that the Arkansas Crime Victims Reparations Board awarded $349,835 in reparations to 170 crime victims during April, 2004.Additional expenses were paid in 100 previously submitted...
May 11 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) recently announced it named Frank Arey, a one-time special appointee to the state’s Court of Appeals, as its newest Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).The AWCC,...
Mar 22 2004 // The Arkansas Department of Insurance issued a notice to insurers and other interested parties about a significant new technology in the area of truck and truck cargo security.The Arkansas Department said it wants to make...
Mar 22 2004 // Ironically, there was no shortage of things to write about when it came to filling the pages of our Workers’ Compensation issue. All over the West, workers’ comp has been the hot topic in many states—not just...
Mar 22 2004 // No surprise, but with the first quarter of 2004 drawing to a close, workers’ compensation remains, as it has been for many years, one of the most troubled lines of insurance in the United States.On a calendar year...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Feb 24 2004 // On February 20, 2004, the Arkansas Insurance Department issued the following directive on cancellations, nonrenewals and discriminatory underwriting practices for property and casualty insurance:The Department recognizes...