All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2008 // Ron Musser, the assistant commissioner of Financial Solvency for the Louisiana Department of Insurance, has received the Al Greer Achievement Award from the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society (IRES), the department...
Oct 3 2008 // Overland Park, Kansas-based Brooke Corp. faces a lawsuit by a bank that is seeking $13 million plus interest and costs for breach of contract. The suit was filed the last week in September 2008 in federal court in Illinois...
Sep 29 2008 // The National Association of Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has awarded the California Department of Insurance third place in the 2008 Recognition Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Information...
Sep 24 2008 // Richard Ford, chief examiner of the Alabama Department of Insurance since 1993, accepted election as president of the Society of Financial Examiners at the organization’s recent annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn.At...
Sep 17 2008 // Jim L. Ridling began his new job as Alabama Insurance Commissioner on Sept. 15 under appointment by Gov. Bob RileyRidling entered a management training program in 1967 with Fireman’s Fund Insurance. This lead to...
Sep 17 2008 // Companies sending unlicensed adjusters to Kentucky to assist with the large number of claims from the Sept. 13 and Sept.14 storms must complete state form 8307, according to the Kentucky Department of Insurance.The form...
Sep 11 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance on Sept. 10 issued Emergency Rule 24, which addresses premium renewals, cancellations, claim filings and other insurance-related matters affecting Louisiana citizens impacted by...
Sep 8 2008 // A 2008 filing most insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation coverage shows the third straight decrease in loss costs, Department of Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark announced.The...
Sep 4 2008 // As Tropical Storm Hanna strengthens and takes aim at the Carolinas, the South Carolina Department of Insurance reminds homeowners to review their insurance policies and brace for potential damage.“We urge South...
Sep 1 2008 // Taking the 5th“Has it been your custom and habit in prosecuting litigation to have Senator Lott contact and encourage witnesses to give false information?” —State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. attorney Jim...
Aug 12 2008 // Walter A. Bell, the first Alabamian to serve as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, will be leaving his position as state insurance commissioner at the end of August, Gov. Bob Riley...
Aug 11 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today announced the arrest of an Apex woman on one count of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses.Mary Grantham Hicks, aka Mary Linda Hicks, 58,...
Aug 3 2008 // Beginning Aug. 4, 2008, Utah’s Department of Insurance has new office hours designed to better serve customers. New extended hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. The office is closed on Fridays, but...
Jul 9 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner ordered Dent Defense Group Inc., a Concord-based company, to pay $60,000 in fines for transacting insurance in California without a proper license. Dent Defense Group Inc....
Jun 24 2008 // The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission is holding a public hearing June 24 and 25 to gather comments on the Sunset Commissioner Staff Report recommendations on the continuing governance of the Texas Department of Insurance...
Jun 23 2008 // California’s Department of Insurance is hosting a workshop at 10 a.m., Monday, June 23, 2008, to solicit input on bringing “pay-as-you-drive” automobile insurance to the state.According to the DOI,...
Jun 13 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long said state officials arrested two Laurinburg men on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson and insurance fraud.Officials arrested William Angus McGirt, 71, and Franklin Lacy...
Jun 4 2008 // Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts will resign his post effective Aug. 31, 2008, the insurance department announced. Betts was appointed as the first...
Jun 3 2008 // Scott H. Richardson, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance and chairman of the Advisory Committee for the South Carolina Building Codes Council, announced the seventh round of Safe Home Grant awards.The...
May 22 2008 // Staff of the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission says the Texas Department of Insurance functions well but that the state’s “overall approach to insurance regulation,” may need tweaking.State agencies in...