All the headlines from our Arizona Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2008 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued late last week blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation.The ruling against Bloomington,...
Dec 7 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a state law that limits the responsibility for payment of damages in lawsuits, including those for faulty products.Deciding a case which drew interest...
Oct 24 2007 // The Phoenix area has the nation’s fourth highest auto-theft rate, according to a recent National Insurance Crime Bureau report.Of the 54,849 vehicles that were stolen in Arizona in 2006, nearly 40,000 of them were...
Sep 20 2007 // Phoenix City Council members want both hands on the wheel instead of texting and driving.The council is moving closer to becoming the first city in Arizona and among the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while...
Aug 24 2007 // About 20 percent of taxis pulled over by Arizona inspectors in the past 12 months failed at least one part of an inspection that ensures honest meter readings, licensed drivers, and safe and insured cabs.Department of...
Jul 10 2007 // HDR Insurance Services of Sacramento, Calif., has a new market for commercial and residential contractors in California and Arizona. Coverage is available for general liability, auto, propoerty, and insland marine...
Jul 2 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally.At issue in State Farm Insurance v....
Jun 27 2007 // The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will be reviewing a product liability case in which a lower court decided that all parties in a distribution chain could not be sued equally.At issue in the case, State Farm Insurance...
Jun 27 2007 // Some Arizona employees hurt on the job could get higher workers’ compensation benefits under a bill approved by the Arizona House in a 57-0 vote.The bill (HB2195), which was approved by the Senate earlier in June, is...
Jun 18 2007 // Arizona aims to raise workers’ compensation benefits limitsArizona is proposing to increase the caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job. Under a freshly rewritten...
Jun 13 2007 // The Arizona Senate approved a workers’ compensation bill to carry out a business-labor compromise to increase Arizona’s caps on benefits received by employees who are hurt on the job.The Senate’s 24-2...
Jun 11 2007 // A business-labor compromise that emerged at the Arizona Legislature would increase Arizona’s caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job.Under a freshly rewritten workers’...
May 29 2007 // The former owner of an embattled towing company in Mesa, Ariz., is suing an insurance company for defamation and $10 million in damages.Lee Watkins is refuting a claim that Cactus Towing was one of several Phoenix-area tow...
May 22 2007 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group, a privately held managing general agent and wholesale broker has hired Marti Porter as an underwriter for PL Pros, the professional liability division of its U.S. Risk Underwriters...
May 21 2007 // Errors & Omissions, AgentsNuts & Bolts: Insurance agents and brokers now have access to errors and omissions coverage, through Swiss Re’s Commercial insurance market. Swiss Re announced the launch of a...
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion.California Capones Modern-day...
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion.California Capones Modern-day...
May 18 2007 // The Arizona House has narrowly rejected a medical malpractice bill that would have made it harder to successfully sue emergency medical providers for alleged malpractice.The bill was the only major piece of malpractice...
May 7 2007 // Ariz. Governor Napolitano signs captive insurance lawArizona Governor Janet Napolitano has signed HB2294, Captive Insurer Amendments, updating Arizona’s captive insurance law. The amendments will be effective 90 days...
May 7 2007 // Calif. State Fund to receive $46,000Imperial Valley, Calif., County Superior Court Judge Poli Flores has ordered an employee of an El Centro, Calif., hay exporter to pay $45,996 in restitution to the State Compensation...