All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2005 // Max Mayfield, National Hurricane Center director and Bill Bailey, Hurricane Insurance Information Center director will join leading property insurance industry experts speaking at the Feb. 1 — 4, Sixth Annual...
Jan 3 2005 // This Tennessee city ranks No. 15 among the 50 most affordable cities for families to obtain health insurance, according to a study by eHealthInsurance.com in Mountain View, Calif. The monthly premium for health insurance...
Jan 3 2005 // On Dec. 13, Judge Paul Alvarado issued a tentative ruling affirming that the State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is subject to the Department of Insurance’s authority under the state’s Risk Based...
Dec 20 2004 // A multicounty grand jury in Oklahoma named Opal Ellis in an indictment that charges the former Oklahoma Insurance Department employee with four counts of making a false, fictitious or fraudulent claim, Attorney General...
Dec 20 2004 // Communities across Massachusetts have been slow to enforce fire safety requirements mandating that vacant buildings be boarded up and marked to warn firefighters the buildings are abandoned and should be entered with care....
Dec 20 2004 // San Francisco-based Tevis Insurance Company announced that it has filed an application with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to become a new workers’ compensation insurance carrier. The application will...
Dec 20 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has voiced its general support of the Oregon Insurance Division’s effort to establish an objective way to determine when an insurance broker must make...
Dec 6 2004 // A Vermont Family Court judge has ruled that both members of a same-sex civil union are the legal parents of a child. Judge William Cohen’s decision is the latest twist in a nationally watched custody dispute that has...
Dec 6 2004 // Florida hurricane victims, unhappy with their insurance settlement offers, are meeting with state-certified officials and insurance company representatives to work toward an agreement and argue for more money. The...
Dec 6 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance’s final estimate of Hurricane Ivan damage in Louisiana is $7,868,750. That figure is based on a reported 3,760 claims paid following a survey of the major insurance carriers in...
Dec 6 2004 // Far more people have died in Texas motor vehicle collisions with animals than in any other state. Many of these fatalities could have been prevented if motorists had worn seatbelts or motorcyclists had worn helmets. A new...
Dec 6 2004 // Charges of murder and of sexual battery have been filed in the Nov. 12 slaying of an insurance adjuster who went to inspect a hurricane-damaged rental home. Jason M. Funk, 27, the home’s tenant, was initially...
Dec 6 2004 // A federal magistrate judge has upheld U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) findings that Mutual Benefits Corporation (MBC), the nation’s largest viatical settlement company, engaged in violations of...
Nov 22 2004 // A National Association of Insurance Commissioners report comparing auto insurance rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia found that North Carolina ranks eighth in the nation for the lowest rates. This is an...
Nov 22 2004 // Dennis Ingles, of Haughton, La., was convicted recently of one count of conspiracy, four counts of mail fraud, and one count of wire fraud, according to U. S. Attorney Donald Washington. The conviction arose out of a...
Nov 22 2004 // Retail insurance agents have a new brokerage resource: K&B Underwriters LLC, of Fairfax, Va. Founded by insurance veteran Bryan Baird, K&B is a wholesale brokerage. K&B’s initial focus will be the...
Nov 22 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
Nov 8 2004 // Officials of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety’s Division of Emergency Management (CCPS-DEM)...
Nov 8 2004 // Oregon drivers are reportedly spending less than the national average for personal automobile insurance, according to a recent report comparing premiums nationwide. The estimated average expenditure per insured vehicle for...
Oct 25 2004 // The Mass. Attorney General has recommended that agents’ auto insurance commissions be frozen at $114 per vehicle until further proof of agencies’ actual expenses is made available. The AG is pressing for...