All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 19 2008 // Workers’ comp premium rates in Arkansas will continue on the declining path they have followed since the state passed workers’ compensation legislative reform in 1993, when a 12.8 percent rate decrease takes...
May 12 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) and Allstate Texas Lloyd’s (Allstate) have reached agreement to settle all outstanding litigation with respect to homeowners...
Apr 24 2008 // An insurance agent was arrested in California for defrauding 18 business owners by stealing more than $2.5 million in money they had paid him to take out insurance policies for their businesses, the California Department...
Apr 8 2008 // Insurance premium discounts are available in 2008 to homeowners in Louisiana who build or retrofit a structure to comply with the requirements of the State Uniform Construction Code, install damage mitigation improvements,...
Apr 8 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested a Pinebluff, N.C. man on three counts of common law forgery, one count of obtaining property by false pretense and one count of falsifying government documents, according to Insurance...
Apr 7 2008 // In March, the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration announced that it contracted with Pearson VUE to conduct producer licensing examinations. In an effort to accommodate the...
Apr 1 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued procedures for the first round of depopulation of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (LCPIC).The procedures were established at a meeting on March 14, 2008....
Mar 25 2008 // The minimum amount of automobile liability insurance Texas drivers are required to carry for bodily injury/property damage will increase on April 1 from the current $20,000/$40,000/$15,000 (“20/40/15”) coverage...
Mar 25 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon named former State Representative Shirley Bowler of Harahan to take over the vacant position of deputy commissioner of the Office of Management and Finance in the Department...
Mar 18 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance are decreasing in Louisiana, based on a recent report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Mar 17 2008 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance awarded a fifth round of grants through the state’s Safe Home Grant Program, according to Scott H. Richardson, Insurance Department director.Richardson, also chairman of the...
Mar 14 2008 // In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call for tougher state regulation on homeowner rates.Financial reports released by the Texas...
Mar 4 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 fourth round of awards for the S.C. Safe Home...