All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2013 // Michigan Gov. Rick Synder has proposed the creation of a new Department of Insurance and Financial Services.Snyder, who is beginning his third year as governor, said the new department will “emphasize consumer...
Jan 11 2013 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the conclusion of the legal cases of two insurance companies that went into receivership due to insolvency.A Cole County judge ordered Transit Casualty Co. into receivership...
Jan 8 2013 // Financial conditions at Missouri’s Barton County Mutual Insurance Co. are strong enough that the company can be released from state oversight, a judge has ruled.A Barton County judge has granted a motion by the...
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines.Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Dec 11 2012 // Officials say the record number of insurance-fraud allegations in Ohio this year can be partly attributed to better reporting of suspected incidents and difficult economic times that push some people into illegal...
Dec 10 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and Department of Revenue (LDR) Director of Customer Service Kent LaPlace are reminding property insurance policyholders that time is running out to claim a rebate for the...
Nov 5 2012 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that Ron C. Henderson has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Consumer Advocacy for the Louisiana Department of Insurance.As head of the Office of Consumer Advocacy,...
Nov 2 2012 // Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that an agent tax lien program that has collected more than $5.3 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers compensation premium payments....
Nov 1 2012 // Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan will lose their coverage on Thursday under a judge’s order to cease operations.Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate found that Medi-Share doesn’t...
Oct 29 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for coastal property has paid out more than $1.2 billion in individual litigation costs related to Hurricane Ike, which struck in 2008, one state lawmaker says.Information released by...
Oct 22 2012 // Members of a Christians-only health insurance plan that has been ordered to cease operations in Kentucky should get different policies immediately, the state Department of Insurance advised.The move follows Franklin County...
Oct 17 2012 // Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance have received almost $8 million in additional claims payments from their insurance companies in the nine months of 2012.The department said it has...
Oct 4 2012 // A Christians-only health care ministry must cease operations in Kentucky unless it can get regulatory approval from the state Department of Insurance, a judge ruled this week.The ruling by Franklin County Circuit Judge...
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...