All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2005 // “After Hurricane Katrina, it looked as if a bomb had ex-ploded in Hatties-burg, Miss.,” Gray Montgomery, of SouthGroup Insur-ance Services told Insurance Journal.SouthGroup, headquartered in Jackson, Miss., and...
Oct 3 2005 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute reported that Ar-kansas’ workers’ compensation system has experienced a period of stability after extensive reforms were passed in 1993, but maintained that...
Oct 3 2005 // INDIANAInd. Targets Unemployment System: The Indiana Department of Workforce Development (IDWD) has taken another step toward modernizing its unemployment insurance system by contracting with Carmel, Ind.-based Haverstick...
Sep 28 2005 // Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, has acquired the crop insurance business from Portland, Indiana-based JS Crop Insurance, Inc. (JS Crop), expanding Wells Fargo’s reach to...
Sep 20 2005 // Indiana insurance agent J. Michael Miley has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”). Miley, an account executive with Gibson...
Sep 19 2005 // Insurance companies formerly insuring Jacksonville, Fla. will pay $50 million, while the city will pay $25 million, in the $75 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2003 by local residents. The city settled...
Sep 19 2005 // Former insurance industry advocate Mike Chrysler has recently been appointed as the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s (IEDC) Director of Insurance Initiatives.Chrysler, an Indiana native and former assistant...
Sep 19 2005 // Former insurance industry advocate Mike Chrysler has recently been appointed as the Indiana Economic Development Corporation’s (IEDC) Director of Insurance Initiatives.Chrysler, an Indiana native and former assistant...
Sep 5 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has told a Hawaii legislative committee that passing rate modernization laws would benefit state commerce and insurance consumers. According to NAMIC State Affairs...
Sep 5 2005 // In response to proposed regulations that would prohibit the use of credit-based insurance scoring in the renewal of insurance policy underwriting, NAMIC testified on Aug. 30 at an Alaska Division of Insurance hearing that...
Aug 22 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation insurers in the state filed rate reductions averaging -14.6 percent for policies incepting on or after July 1, 2005 bringing the...
Aug 22 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American praised Gov. Frank Murkowski for signing into law legislation which will modernize and improve Alaska’s system for establishing rates for homeowners, auto and...
Aug 22 2005 // InsureMyHouse.com, an informational Web site about homeowners insurance, recently started an online directory of homeowners insurance agents. The directory started in Pennsylvania and is now open to all 50 states....
Aug 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation cases with significant unanticipated medical care and costs are most common in California and Texas, and can represent as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of medical costs in most states,...
Aug 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation cases with significant unanticipated medical care and costs are most common in California and Texas, and can represent as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of medical costs in most states,...
Aug 5 2005 // The operators of an Indiana-based insurance company that left 7,200 people with unpaid medical claims in one of the costliest, most extensive fraud schemes in Florida were sentenced to prison Wednesday, Florida officials...
Jul 21 2005 // Workers’ compensation cases with significant unanticipated medical care and costs are most common in California and Texas, and can represent as much as 30 to 40 percent of medical costs in most states, according to a...
Jul 18 2005 // The Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation for second year in a row declared a dividend and will return $15.8 million to qualifying policyholders this year. The company believes it to be the largest single...
Jul 18 2005 // The market for homeowners insurance in Louisiana is expanding, according to Associated Press and New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. More companies are apparently writing policies, and those that already were in the state...
Jul 18 2005 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman reported that severe weather that ripped through the Dickinson area in Western North Dakota and the Langdon and Walhalla areas in Eastern North Dakota earlier this month has...