All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2004 // At a bimonthly meeting with the governor and other state Cabinet members, Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that the Department of Financial Services’ Bureau of Unclaimed Property is holding...
Feb 23 2004 // Halliburton announced that a judge in Pittsburgh, Penn. has ruled that insurers lack standing to bring motions seeking to dismiss the prepackaged reorganization cases filed by DII Industries, Kellogg Brown & Root...
Feb 23 2004 // For the first time in almost two years, entrepreneurial interests are introducing a new carrier to the California workers’ comp market. Western Compensation Insurance Company, a California corporation, was formed in...
Feb 9 2004 // The Oklahoma Department of Insurance recovered more than $6 million in underpaid insurance claims for consumers during 2003. According to Commissioner Carroll Fisher, an estimated 7,000 Oklahomans contacted the department...
Feb 9 2004 // Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that the Nevada Department of Justice, Insurance Fraud Unit, obtained more convictions per capita than any other state. The statistics for insurance crimes were compiled by the...
Feb 9 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has issued a new study examining the development and history of evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a tool for assuring appropriate, quality medical care, and its potential...
Jan 26 2004 // State regulators and the insurance industry’s principal workers’ compensation trade group have called for a reduction in Missouri workers’ compensation insurance rates, providing financial relief for the...
Jan 26 2004 // A proposal to create and fund an insurance fraud investigation and prosecution framework in South Carolina reportedly has the support of the Alliance of American Insurers. The Omnibus Insurance Fraud and Reporting Immunity...
Jan 26 2004 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens issued a warning that despite his arrest for fraud, Steven Edward Gwin, better known as Steve Gwin, is continuing to sell insurance products in the Northwest Arkansas area....
Jan 26 2004 // With the creation of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, the Texas insurance industry, state and county agencies, and national organizations are engaging for the first time in a coordinated effort to battle insurance...
Jan 26 2004 // The California Department of Insurance sent out a notice a few weeks ago reminding all insurance licensees that they will be ringing in the New Year with a 10 percent fee increase, the American Agents Alliance said in its...
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...
Jan 12 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation pure premium rates filed by insurers to date are below current rates by an average 3.6 percent, a “clear sign” that the historic...
Jan 12 2004 // The workers’ compensation segment in Midwestern states is not immune to the broad trends in the line nationally — including poor combined ratios, escalating medical costs and severe underreserving — but no...
Jan 12 2004 // Delegates attending a recent meeting of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Milan heard a report, prepared by Munich Re, estimating the cost of natural disasters, most of which were weather-related, was more...
Jan 12 2004 // The Seibels Bruce Group Inc. has received approval from the Tennessee Department of Insurance allowing subsidiary Catawba Insurance Company (CIC) to resume writing new risk-bearing commercial lines business in Tennessee....
Jan 12 2004 // An early morning fire recently in Oxford, Ala., resulted in injuries to five people — three firefighters and two employees of Southern Tool Inc. Oxford Fire Department responded to the fire that began between 3:30 and...
Jan 12 2004 // Florida once again leads the nation in the number of insurance fraud convictions and cases presented for prosecution, according to a study released recently by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a national alliance of...
Jan 12 2004 // U.S. Sens. Bill Frist and Lamar Alexander, both Tennessee Republicans, recently announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved two grants totaling more than $6 million to pay for electric utility...
Dec 17 2003 // Agency network SIAA Inc. announced that Insurance Management of Marion, Ind., has established Northern Indiana Agents Alliance as an SIAA master agency. Their territory will cover several counties in Northwest...