All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 11 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana elected Lawrence D. Myers as its new president at the group’s convention in November. As a member of the IIAI executive committee, Meyers will represent the interests of...
Dec 1 2003 // The number of workplace fatalities in California declined by 8 percent in 2002 according to the Department of Industrial Relation’s (DIR) Division of Labor Statistics and Research. The number of workers who died on...
Dec 1 2003 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Ruben Perez of Dallas pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and received a two-year deferred adjudication sentence. The court ordered him pay...
Nov 26 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI) elected its officers to serve the association in the year 2004 at the IIAI Annual Convention, Nov. 16-18, 2003. Mark A. Bates will continue to serve as part of the IIAI...
Nov 17 2003 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) released a report, “Bringing Justice to Judicial Hellholes 2003,” identifying 13 jurisdictions where it believes the law is consistently applied unfairly. Three of...
Nov 3 2003 // The Texas Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and found that insurance contracts do not require an insurer to pay a policyholder for the vehicle’s so-called diminished value. According to the National...
Nov 3 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher will conduct a hearing Nov. 18 on a proposed increase in medical malpractice insurance rates filed by Physicians Liability Insurance Co. Under a recently enacted state law,...
Oct 14 2003 // For the fourth consecutive year, the Indiana Young Agents Committee (YAC) enjoyed a tremendous amount of success in the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) annual Young Agents Committee national...
Oct 6 2003 // Young children are reportedly twice as likely to die in fires as are older children and adults. Statistics show that for young children, fires and burns are the leading cause of unintentional injury. Why?Many young...
Oct 6 2003 // Standard & Poor’s reported that rates across the global marine hull insurance market look set to peak in 2005, a year later than previously expected. It noted, however, that although this promised a...
Sep 23 2003 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has appointed Allison Meta manager of its Indianapolis branch office. Meta, an assistant vice president of Chubb & Son, joined Chubb in 1994 as a senior underwriter for Chubb Custom...
Sep 22 2003 // Despite an initial rush of proposed legislation aimed at dealing with the problems related to mold claims and homeowners insurance, very few bills have been enacted in 2003, according to the Alliance of American Insurers....
Sep 22 2003 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has approved the request of American Family Mutual Insurance Company (American Family) for an overall statewide increase of 4.4 percent for private passenger automobile...
Sep 22 2003 // Two Louisiana insurance agents, Jonathan Horace Jones and his wife Cindy Marie Jones, both of New Iberia, were arrested and their insurance agency was shut down for alleged misappropriation of insurance funds. Department...
Sep 22 2003 // The Oklahoma State Board for Property and Casualty Rates voted to hold the line on a key component of workers’ compensation rates, at least for the next year. The 4-1 decision came after nearly 10 hours of hearings...
Sep 22 2003 // Rapidly rising construction costs prices, home remodeling and increasingly expensive natural disasters are expected to push the cost of homeowners insurance up by eight percent in 2004, according to a report by the...
Sep 10 2003 // The Indiana Supreme Court has denied the appellee’s petition to transfer the jurisdiction of the DeHays/Pretzels case involving an agent’s duty to disclose from the Court of Appeals to the Indiana Supreme...
Sep 8 2003 // The races for Louisiana political offices, statewide and local, got underway as candidates completed the filing hurdle and were officially “qualified” to run. The statewide general election will be on Nov. 15....
Sep 8 2003 // CPCUs can learn about the latest property and casualty insurance topics at the CPCU Society’s 59th Annual Meeting and Seminars, taking place in New Orleans, Oct. 11-14. The Annual Meeting’s Property and...
Aug 4 2003 // California Senate Bill 691 failed to pass the state Assembly Insurance Committee recently, legislation that would have reportedly banned the use of credit-based insurance scores for underwriting and rating homeowners...