All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2016 // Location Inc. announced that the California Department of Insurance has approved its predictive crime analytics for rate filing, making it the 12th state the firm has received approval for rate filings. Location Inc....
Dec 2 2016 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) has requested a 19.6 percent rate increase on all dwelling insurance policies, according to a statement from the North Carolina Department of Insurance.NCDOI announced Dec. 1 it is...
Nov 18 2016 // A North Carolina couple has been arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense, according to North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin.Keith Hedgepeth, 48, and...
Oct 21 2016 // The Georgia Department of Insurance (GADOI) has released preliminary estimates of insured losses in the state from Hurricane Matthew.In a statement issued Thursday, GADOI said more than 30,000 claims have been reported and...
Oct 17 2016 // The owner of a Houston health clinic pled guilty to insurance fraud after billing for medical services – often provided to injured employees – despite having no licensed medical staff at the clinic, the Texas...
Oct 13 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart approved the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, which recommends no changes in the overall levels of...
Oct 13 2016 // A Georgia man was arrested and charged with insurance fraud for allegedly staging a car theft in North Carolina, according to a statement from Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Jeremy Joseph Keeton, 29, of Columbus, Ga...
Oct 6 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is encouraging Delaware residents to take action now to prepare for potential damages and interruptions from Hurricane Matthew.Although it is too early to predict the...
Oct 4 2016 // The WCIRB has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing Jan. 1, 2017 advisory pure premium rates lower than the corresponding industry average and less than the average...
Sep 29 2016 // The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Louisiana’s drug overdose death rate exceeds the national average, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported.In addition, a recent study released by the...
Sep 29 2016 // A woman in North Carolina has been arrested and charged with insurance fraud for allegedly submitting a duplicate property claim, according to North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Kathryn Taylor Reynolds,...
Sep 19 2016 // The Alabama Department of Insurance (ALDOI) announced Aug. 31 that it has been re-accredited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for a 5-year term. The ALDOI received its first NAIC accreditation...
Sep 13 2016 // A former Ohio insurance agent and agency owner has been sentenced for grand theft after pleading guilty to misappropriating more than $58,000 from two clients, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced.Charles Gabel, of...
Sep 9 2016 // An Orange County, California court has given the state’s Department of Insurance a stunning smack down in a long-running case about the “broker fees” charged by some insurance agents. The complicated case...
Sep 9 2016 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance has approved the annual workers’ compensation loss costs filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) with a rate decrease of five percent on average.It...
Sep 6 2016 // The Alabama Department of Insurance (ALDOI) announced Aug. 31 that it has been re-accredited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for a 5-year term. The ALDOI received its first NAIC accreditation...
Aug 25 2016 // Missouri insurance regulators say employers in that state should see lower workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third straight year in 2017.The Missouri Department of Insurance says the National Council on...
Aug 24 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has once again refused to renew the non-resident producer license of the owner of an Illinois managing general agency that has been able to continue operations despite having his...
Aug 16 2016 // U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is taking the rare step of weighing in on the state’s handling of a hefty health insurance rate increase request, asking Illinois regulators to press the state’s leading insurer of...
Aug 9 2016 // An administrative law judge at the California Department of Insurance found that State Farm overcharged customers $85 million and ordered the carrier to issue refunds and reduce rates.The judge determined that since July...