All the headlines from our Arizona Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 31 2005 // Fire crews and the State Land Department are frustrated that homeowners at risk of losing their homes to catastrophic wildfires fail to remove dead brush that fuels those fires.Some homeowners let wildflowers, grasses and...
May 27 2005 // For a 35th consecutive year, SCF of Arizona’s Board of Directors approved a dividend to policyholders. The Board voted unanimously May 24 to a recommended $60 million. Since 1969, SCF has returned more than $1...
May 25 2005 // Homeowners from a mountaintop community northeast of Tucson began filing lawsuits May 24 accusing their insurance companies of failing to provide enough coverage on homes destroyed in a June 2003 wildfire.Roughly 70...
May 23 2005 // Legislation that will allow business owners to lower their insurance costs highlighted the action on insurance-related measures during the recently concluded legislative session, according to Sam Sorich, regional vice...
May 18 2005 // During the recently concluded Arizona legislative session, property/casualty insurers successfully lobbied for exclusion from insurance coverage of damage caused by terrorism, and also for medical malpractice liability...
May 5 2005 // Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc., recently announced that they have been appointed and approved for writing several of insurance products in the state of Arizona. Arizona agents will now have...
Apr 26 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American (PCI) on Tuesday commended Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for signing into law legislation that will allow business owners an opportunity to lower their insurance...
Apr 20 2005 // A medical-malpractice bill passed by the Arizona Legislature and sent to Gov. Janet Napolitano faces an uncertain future.The Senate completed legislative action on the bill (SB 1036) by voting 23-6 April 18 to accept...
Apr 19 2005 // Federal disaster funds have been made available for Arizona to help local governments recover from the effects of another round of severe storms that struck the state in February, the head of the U.S. Department of...
Mar 7 2005 // A bill approved Feb. 22 by the Senate would let doctors apologize and offer condolences to patients and their families without fear of having the statements held against them in court.The so-called “I’m...
Feb 25 2005 // A bill approved Tuesday by the Senate would let doctors apologize and offer condolences to patients and their families without fear of having the statements held against them in court.The so-called “I’m...
Feb 22 2005 // The Senate gave preliminary approval Feb. 17 to a three-pronged medical malpractice bill backed by business groups and physicians.The measure would provide a legal shield for doctors’ apologies, tighten requirements...
Feb 21 2005 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Jeannie Davila as assistant vice president in charge of its new E&S Property Insurance facility. Davila brings 30 years of insurance experience to her new...
Feb 21 2005 // Insurance Journal recently surveyed several surplus line associations regarding their thoughts on the current atmosphere of the surplus lines marketplace, and their expectations into 2005. Executive director Ted Pierce of...
Jan 21 2005 // Arizona’s Pima County supervisors approved the construction of five detention basins to control flooding in downtown and central Tucson.Construction bids for the $17.5 million project will go out in late spring, said...
Jan 16 2005 // A proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriages in Arizona would outlaw all government-sponsored benefits to domestic partners.Republican Reps. Mark Anderson and Warde Nichols said their proposal will mirror...
Dec 20 2004 // The city of Tempe, Ariz., is threatening to shut down a boating company operating at Tempe Town Lake without enough insurance.Rio Lago Cruise Company has carried $1 million of insurance for the past two years despite a...
Nov 17 2004 // American Driving Records (ADR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Advantage Corporation and Fiserv FSC Inc. announced the launch of a new software interface that will allow California and Arizona insurance agents to order...
Nov 8 2004 // According to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), notable features of Arizona’s workers’ compensation system included a lifetime entitlement to medical and indemnity...
Oct 28 2004 // The Director of the Arizona Department of Insurance, Christina Urias, is joining insurance regulators in other states to review allegations of bid-rigging and price-fixing between insurance brokers and insurance companies....