All the headlines from our Department of Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 28 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has ended its legal dispute with the North Carolina Rate Bureau on its proposal for an 18.9 percent dwelling insurance rate increase and instead reached a settlement that will...
May 14 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing on the petition by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas to extend the expiration date of negotiated experience modifiers in the National Council on...
May 4 2018 // The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the next two weeks as part of a National Level Exercise designed to help FEMA and other federal partners,...
Apr 13 2018 // Angela Nelson, director of the Division of Market Regulation and Chief Industry Liaison at the Missouri Department of Insurance has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Paul DeAngelo Memorial Teaching Award given by...
Apr 6 2018 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment has issued a bulletin requiring heightened protections for Ohio consumers related to prescription drug prices.The bulletin requires insurers and pharmacy benefit...
Apr 4 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Apr 3 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.Jammers...
Apr 2 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance regulators in the Southeast are notifying policyholders in their states of a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that is to be liquidated after being placed in...
Mar 23 2018 // A Texas court has issued an order of liquidation for Access Insurance Company, an auto insurer that has 42,785 policies in Pennsylvania. This means Pennsylvanians that currently have auto insurance through Access Insurance...
Mar 23 2018 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been arrested and charged with embezzling more than $18,000 in insurance premiums, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey.Billie Jo Kennedy, 47,...
Mar 19 2018 // Texas insurance regulators placed into receivership and started the process of liquidating a Texas-domiciled/Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered property/casualty insurance company that the insurance department says is...
Mar 19 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance has expanded its criminal investigations division with the addition of 15 new special agents, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike...
Mar 8 2018 // The race is on for the California insurance commissioner posts as we are nearly three months from the primary, but you wouldn’t know it by speaking to people in the insurance industry.Most insurance groups and...
Mar 1 2018 // More than $8 million was secured for thousands of individuals, families, and businesses who filed complaints against insurance companies in 2017 through help from the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s Office,...
Feb 19 2018 // The Ohio Department of Insurance helped recover $30.4 million for insureds in 2017 and the Missouri Department of Insurance helped consumers receive an extra $16.8 million in claims payments last year, insurance regulators...
Feb 9 2018 // A state of Ohio program established to collect past due taxes from insurance agents has surpassed the $20 million threshold, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment announced.The vast majority of the nearly...
Feb 9 2018 // The North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) has requested a statewide average rate increase of 18.9 percent, varying by territory, on dwelling insurance policies, according to a statement from the North Carolina Department of...
Feb 8 2018 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced on Thursday that the California Department of Insurance recovered more than $81.3 million for consumers during 2017 through consumer complaint investigations and market conduct...
Feb 5 2018 // Missouri consumers received an additional $16.8 million from their insurance companies in 2017 with the help of the Missouri Department of Insurance’s Consumer Affairs Division and Market Conduct Section.The...