Latest Indiana Headlines

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WORK COMP PAYMENTS GREW FASTER THAN WAGES FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW:

Sep 6 2004 // Total payments for workers’ compensation rose faster than wages in 2002 for the second year in a row, according to a new report released today by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). In 2002, total...

Insurer Groups File Amicus Brief in Studebaker Case

Aug 31 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and the Insurance Institute of Indiana recently filed an amicus brief in The City of South Bend, Ind. vs. Century Indemnity Company, et. al., to be heard by the...

GEORGIA COMM. REPORTS 43,000 RESIDENTS HELPED TO DATE IN 2004; $7.9 MILLION IN CLAIMS RECOVERED:

Aug 23 2004 // In the first half of 2004, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine’s Consumer Services Division helped more than 43,000 Georgia residents settle disputes with their insurance companies, returning $7,900,840 in...

HOSPITAL CASUALTY IN RECEIVERSHIP:

Aug 23 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher placed Hospital Casualty Co. into receivership after its Board of Directors requested the action. Hospital Casualty provides medical liability insurance to hospitals and...

C&D ORDER ISSUED IN LOUISIANA:

Aug 23 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance shut down a Jena, La. insurance producer and issued a Cease and Desist order, along with a summary suspension of her insurance license, for allegedly misappropriating premium dollars...

The Guaranty Fund System: A Vital Safety Net

Jul 22 2004 // Suzanne SahakianProperty/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty...

N.Y. FAIR PLAN BACK IN BUSINESS:

Jul 19 2004 // After nearly nine weeks of being suspended, operations at the New York property insurance residual market are back. The suspension of the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Fair Plan,...

COMMISSION: MED-MAL CRISIS HURTING DOCTOR RECRUITMENT IN OHIO:

Jul 19 2004 // Patients in southeastern and northeastern Ohio are feeling the impact of the medical malpractice crisis according to several doctors who testified before the Ohio Medical Malpractice Commission at the Ohio Department of...

The Guaranty Fund System: A Vital Safety Net

Jul 19 2004 // Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty insurance...

ASCNET’S 19TH ANNUAL ‘TENCON’ SET FOR OCT. 5-9 IN ORLANDO:

Jul 19 2004 // Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency technology, announced that registration is open for the 2004 ASCnet TENCon – its 19th Annual Technology, Education and Networking...

ALABAMA GOV. NOTES MORE THAN $5.2 MILLION IN FEDERAL DISASTER FUNDS FOR CITY OF BIRMINGHAM:

Jul 19 2004 // Alabama Gov. Bob Riley announced more than $5.2 million in federal funding for the City of Birmingham as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. The funding is a result of...

ACIC DISAPPOINTED IN CALIF. SUPREME COURT ACTION:

Jul 19 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) expressed disappointment in the decision by the California Supreme Court not to review a key case related to insurance rate regulation in the state. The Court...

STATE FARM LOWERS RATES IN COLO.:

Jul 5 2004 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said it will lower its rates in Colorado by 5.9 percent starting July 1, according to the Greeley Tribune. The rate decreases will affect thousands of people living in Colorado....

Ind. Governor Says 13 Additional Counties Now Eligible for Federal Disaster Aid

Jun 23 2004 // Federal emergency management officials have added 13 Indiana counties to the list of those eligible to receive assistance from the late-May storms and more recent flooding, Gov. Joe Kernan said.This brings the total number...

IND. DOI, AG DISAGREE ON WHAT ‘SOLE USE’ OF CREDIT MEANS:

Jun 21 2004 // Indiana’s attorney general recently released an advisory opinion that directly butts heads with an earlier bulletin from the state’s insurance department on the meaning of “sole use” in...

LOUISIANA JURY AWARDS $591M IN TOBACCO CASE:

Jun 21 2004 // A Louisiana state court jury ruled in a class-action suit that the tobacco industry must pay a little more than $591 million to fund a 10-year program to help smokers in the state shake the habit. The same jury found in...

TENNESSEE SENATORS NOTE $10.9 MILLION IN HUD DISASTER ASSISTANCE ON TORNADO ANNIVERSARY:

Jun 7 2004 // U.S. Senators Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) recently announced that the City of Jackson will receive $10.9 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help rebuild public housing...

PLATTE RIVER APPROVED FOR HOSPITAL LIABILITY IN OKLAHOMA:

Jun 7 2004 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. (Darwin) announced that an affiliate, Platte River Insurance Company, has gained the approval of the Oklahoma Department of Insurance to write hospital professional liability coverage...

BURGLARIES ON THE RISE IN TEXAS:

Jun 7 2004 // An insurance industry trade group reported that many Texas cities experienced a noticeable increase in the number of burglaries in 2003 as compared to 2002. Jerry Johns, president of Southwestern Insurance Information...

PLICO TO RAISE RATES IN OKLAHOMA:

Jun 7 2004 // Physicians Liability Insurance Corporation (PLICO), a nonprofit insurer that provides liability coverage to Oklahoma doctors plans to increase its rates this summer, but said it won’t raise premiums again until 2007....