All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2004 // Insurers’ use of credit scoring in underwriting and rating personal lines insurance harms poor and minority policyholders in Missouri, according to a study released by the state’s insurance department.The...
Feb 12 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) recently. Flood discussed workers’ compensation fraud, one of...
Jan 29 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served Dereius Djuan Davis of Alexandria with a cease and desist order, prohibiting him from conducting any kind of insurance business in Louisiana, according...
Jan 26 2004 // The distinction between an agent and broker has had increased significance in California following Proposition 103 as brokers may charge broker fees and agents may not. Producers rely heavily on broker fee income due to...
Jan 14 2004 // With the creation of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, the Texas insurance industry, state and county agencies, and national organizations are pulling together for the first time a coordinated effort to battle...
Jan 12 2004 // The Seibels Bruce Group Inc. has received approval from the Tennessee Department of Insurance allowing subsidiary Catawba Insurance Company (CIC) to resume writing new risk-bearing commercial lines business in Tennessee....
Dec 31 2003 // Healthcare Underwriters Group of Kentucky (HUGKY), a medical professional liability insurance company owned by Kentucky doctors, has received authorization from the Kentucky Department of Insurance to begin operations.The...
Dec 22 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that two department employees have been arrested for Public Bribery and Conspiracy to Commit Public Bribery.According to the LDI, in February 2001 the Louisiana State Police...
Dec 19 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that two department employees have been arrested for Public Bribery and Conspiracy to Commit Public Bribery.According to the LDI, in February 2001 the Louisiana State Police...
Dec 5 2003 // Missouri’s House Bill 600 has taken effect, requiring persons with professional licenses to file and pay their state taxes or face license revocation.Affected under the legislation are Missouri Department of...
Dec 1 2003 // A Ruston, La. insurance agent with expired licenses was issued a cease and desist order in the wake of his arrest on charges of felony theft and insurance fraud. According to the Louisiana Department of Insurance the...
Nov 18 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a Ruston, La., insurance agent whose licenses recently expired was issued a cease and desist order in the wake of his arrest on charges of felony theft and insurance...
Nov 10 2003 // A Baton Rouge, La. insurance agent (producer) was arrested, had his insurance license suspended and was ordered to cease and desist from doing any insurance business for allegedly misappropriating insurance funds,...
Nov 3 2003 // And then there were two.That is the scenario for this month’s runoff election (Nov. 15) in the race to be the next insurance commissioner in Louisiana. The Oct. 4 primaries brought the field of candidates down to...
Oct 29 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has urged the Missouri Department of Insurance not to issue a proposed bulletin that would require insurers to provide coverage for mold damage in personal lines policies.“The...
Oct 29 2003 // A Tennessee attorney has been sentenced on Mississippi charges in the Martin Frankel scam. Attorney General Mike Moore announced the sentencing of John Jordan for his reported role in the Frankel insurance scam.In April...
Oct 24 2003 // The Seibels Bruce Group, Inc. has received approval from the Tennessee Department of Insurance allowing subsidiary Catawba Insurance Company (CIC) to resume writing new risk-bearing commercial lines business in Tennessee....
Sep 22 2003 // In the latest investigation of insurance fraud across the state, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced that a bail bond agent operating in the Greater New Orleans area and beyond was ordered to cease and...
Sep 12 2003 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced that a former insurance agent (producer) in Haynesville, La., was ordered to cease and desist from all activity in the business of insurance in the latest...
Sep 8 2003 // Insurance Journal staff writer Cynthia Beisiegel recently met up with Michael Nolan, president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) at the ACIC XIV Annual General Counsel Seminar in Las Vegas....