All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 3 2012 // A Christians-only health care ministry that’s battling in court for the right to continue operating in Kentucky could get a reprieve from the Legislature.Sen. Tom Buford, chairman of the Senate Banking and Insurance...
Aug 8 2012 // A judge will consider whether a Christians-only health care plan should be held in contempt of court more than a year after the Kentucky Supreme Court subjected it to stricter regulations that could have meant its demise...
Jul 27 2012 // Missouri insurance regulators report their efforts are helping consumers to receive more than $5 million in additional insurance claims payments in first half of 2012.Consumers will receive an additional $5.1 million in...
Jun 29 2012 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has named Germaine Marks the Acting Director of the Arizona Department of Insurance.Marks is being appointed to serve in this capacity due to the pending retirement of outgoing Insurance Director...
Jun 1 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance says it has received reports that an agent previously barred from the insurance business has been selling policies illegally.The department revoked the insurance license of former agent...
May 30 2012 // Delaware’s Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart said her department recovered $1,331,831 for the state’s policyholders during 2012 first quarter.Commissioner Stewart announced the first-quarter’s...
May 29 2012 // Three subsidiaries of Assurant Health will provide refunds to small group health insurance policyholders that Indiana insurance regulators say the companies overcharged.Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson...
May 17 2012 // State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, has become the latest person to question intervenor fees, calling on the California Department of Insurance to review a state program that allows consumer groups to intervene in...
May 14 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is sending an urgent message to Joplin residents with incomplete insurance claims related to the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado.The department says many homeowners insurance policies...
Apr 26 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and the California Department of Insurance really want you to like them.CDI now has a Facebook page. The page was launched on Thursday, and had about a dozen “Likes” as soon as...
Mar 20 2012 // Although none of the 50 U.S. state governments were found to be exemplary, three out of four of the South Central states received very lackluster rankings in a report evaluating state governments on integrity and the...
Mar 6 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has served an order to show cause, a statement of charges and a notice of penalty against the New Hampshire Insurance Co. and its authorized agent for claims processing, York Risk...
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance initiated an administrative enforcement action against two insurers – Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois – for using a type of...
Feb 14 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers in receiving more than $5.3 million in insurance payments from consumer complaints...
Feb 10 2012 // A website attacking a consumer group that often does battle with the insurance industry was launched on Friday, setting off more sparks in a roiling battle between proponents of two competing measures that Californians may...
Feb 3 2012 // Insurance regulators saved or recovered $11.6 million for Ohioans in 2011, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. The department said it received 5,336 consumer complaints, the majority of which dealt with the denial...
Jan 30 2012 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has named a new top state insurance regulator. Andrew Boron has been appointed director of the Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI), the governor’s office announced. The department has been...
Jan 18 2012 // Health insurance companies in Arizona are facing scrutiny from Washington as federal authorities have taken over reviews of rate increases of 10 percent or more from the state.The Arizona Republic reported that federal...
Jan 10 2012 // The California Department of Insurance recovered more than $54 million for consumers through consumer complaint investigations and market conduct examinations of insurance companies in 2011, California Insurance...
Jan 10 2012 // Two veteran insurance regulators at the Missouri Department of Insurance have been appointed to division director positions.Matt Barton was picked to lead the Consumer Affairs Division and Angela Nelson is now director of...