All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2005 // Judging from the homeowners insurance rate changes reported by the Arkansas Insurance Department for 2004, the highest increases were effective before August.The largest hike, 28.3 percent, was filed by Federal Insurance...
Apr 4 2005 // Mark Wells, publisher of Insurance Journal, recently spoke to Stan Simpson, the newly elected president of the Insurance Agents and Brokers of the West and a principal at Buckman-Mitchell Inc., an independent agency in...
Apr 1 2005 // A Lake Charles, La., insurance agent (producer) was arrested and issued a cease and desist order, along with a summary suspension of his license, on charges of submitting fraudulent damage repair claims and pocketing the...
Mar 29 2005 // Georgia residents with insurance problems or questions have been offered direct assistance from Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine’s office by contacting Insurance investigator visiting various Georgia...
Mar 21 2005 // A Day of Confusion at the Fifth CircuitOne of the black letter principles of insurance law in Texas is the requirement of prejudice to support a carrier’s claim of late notice under an automotive or general liability...
Feb 3 2005 // The daughter of a Louisiana Department of Insurance employee has apparently been abducted from her home in Zachary, La., and the family is asking for the help of the public and the insurance industry in finding their...
Jan 24 2005 // The Louisiana Health Care Alliance (LHCA) presented state Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley with their 2004 Leadership in Health Care Award for his commitment to improving the availability and affordability of health...
Jan 18 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced recently that Lylia Jackson, a former employee with the Louisiana Department of Insurance, pled guilty to one count of public bribery. Jackson was arrested in...
Jan 7 2005 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators have shut down the insurance business of a New Orleans producer on felony theft violations in the amount of $250,000, Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley...
Jan 5 2005 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin has named Brent Walls Assistant Director for Policy and Legislation. Wall joins the department from the Office of Criminal Justice Services where he served in the...
Dec 22 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) strongly criticized a proposed California Department of Insurance regulation on insurance agent and broker practices because the measure is overly broad, poorly...
Dec 17 2004 // Two former Louisiana insurance department employees violated an ethics law that requires public servants to wait two years before entering into a financial relationship with their previous employers, according to a...
Nov 17 2004 // Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. of Addison, Texas, a producer and provider of personal non-standard automobile insurance, announced that its insurance company subsidiaries and one of its agencies have received...
Nov 15 2004 // Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne’s selection to lead the Idaho Department of Insurance is no stranger to state government, public service and private sector leadership.Gary Smith, a long-time senior aide to Gov....
Nov 14 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently sent a message to State Farm and Farmers insurance companies, who have successfully fought state-ordered rate rollbacks for homeowners policies.“I’m not happy at all when...
Oct 28 2004 // A “demand to produce information” has been issued by the North Carolina Department of Insurance in an effort to closely scrutinize the records and practices of more than 5,000 insurance companies and brokers...
Sep 16 2004 // On Sept. 15, authorities completed arresting 38 people for alleged auto insurance fraud at more than 30 auto body shops in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. The suspects were arrested over the past five days and...
Aug 30 2004 // The Louisiana State Police Fraud Unit arrested a Leesville, La., insurance agent and Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators issued the man a Cease and Desist Order and Summary Suspension of his license for...
Aug 23 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance shut down a Jena, La. insurance producer and issued a Cease and Desist order, along with a summary suspension of her insurance license, for allegedly misappropriating premium dollars...
Aug 23 2004 // The California Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that had resulted in a multi-million dollar damage award against an insurance company. The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) had filed an...