Latest Idaho Headlines

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AG SUES ID THEFT PROTECTION CO.:

Oct 25 2004 // The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew...

Long-Term Health Care Costs Loom Large for Governors

Sep 6 2004 // Soaring health care costs, coupled with the looming retirement of a record 77 million Americans starting in 2011, are casting a shadow of concern over states that worry their public health care systems can’t shoulder...

Oregon and Idaho Seminars Focus on CLUE Reports

Jul 22 2004 // The use of loss history reports in underwriting homeowners insurance policies was the subject of seminars held recently in Oregon and Idaho.Sam Sorich, Western Region vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers...

Idaho: More than Snowcapped Peaks, Plateaus and Potatoes

Jul 5 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Idaho at 1,293,953. Approximately 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 22 percent had...

Kingsley Elected President of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho

Jun 17 2004 // Richard Kingsley, owner of Stayton-based Cammack-Kingsley Insurance Inc., has been elected president-elect of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho, a trade association that represents more than 2,300...

Regional Focus

Jun 7 2004 // Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill was attributed with the comment that “all politics are local.” The same could be said for the insurance industry—insurance coverage is definitely local. In...

FLORIDA CFO PROMOTES LEGISLATION TO PREVENT ID THEFT:

Apr 19 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...

Fla. CFO Promotes Legislation to Prevent ID Theft

Mar 22 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Monday unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...

Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out

Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...

IDAHO OFFERS ONLINE IN-STATE PRODUCER LICENSE RENEWAL SERVICE:

Jan 26 2004 // After nearly two years since it began offering online license renewals to out of state insurance producers, the Idaho Department of Insurance is now extending the same convenience to in-state producers. Those who use the...

Idaho Offers Online In-state Producer License Renewal Service

Jan 5 2004 // After nearly two years since it began offering online license renewals to out of state insurance producers, the Idaho Department of Insurance is now extending the same convenience to in-state producers.Those who use the...

ACORD to Provide N.J. Auto ID Cards

Nov 6 2003 // The Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) announced that it will soon be providing temporary as well as permanent auto ID cards in New Jersey, as part of a major change in the...

IIANJ Comments on Out of State Trust Accounts; ID Cards; Consumer Notices

Oct 10 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey has issued three separate bulletins addressing the problems of out of state trust accounts, multiple ID card forms and consumer notices on automobile insurance.The IIANJ...

PIANJ Praises DOBI Effort to Fight ID Card Fraud

Oct 9 2003 // In a comment issued to The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. said it wholeheartedly supports the DOBI’s endeavor to reduce insurance identification...

NYSID Announces Arrest of Queen’s Man for Selling Fraudulent Auto ID Cards

Sep 24 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that Vincent Morciglio, 49, of Jamaica was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of forgery and two counts of criminal possession of a forged...

Tort Reform Tops 2003 Idaho Legislative Session; State Fund Issue Remains Unresolved

May 14 2003 // Tort reform was reportedly the major accomplishment of the 2003 Idaho legislative session. The session lasted a record 118 days due to a standoff between the Governor and legislators over the raising of certain taxes to...

Getting the Percentages Right in Surplus Lines

May 5 2003 // I was standing at the ballpark watching the local minor league baseball team take batting practice before a game. My son was along for the insurance company-sponsored evening, and we were out along the third-base line in...

Covering All the Bases with the Help of Surplus Lines

May 5 2003 // I was standing at the ballpark watching the local minor league baseball team take batting practice before a game. My son was along for the insurance company-sponsored evening, and we were out along the third-base line in...

ISO Tech Conference to Explore Terrorism, Mold, Med-Mal, ID Theft

May 5 2003 // The Insurance and Technology Conference, sponsored by Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), will be held Nov. 2-4 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.Dr. James Canton, futurist and author, will be the keynote speaker,...

Idaho Gov. Signs Landmark Tort Reform Measure Into Law

Mar 28 2003 // A bill signed into law March 26 by Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) sets the standard for tort reform in the states, according to the Alliance of American Insurers.HB 92, which passed the Senate 27-8 and the House 58-12...