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Nationwide Tops List of Least-Complained About Insurers in New York

Oct 26 2010 // Insurer Nationwide is the least-complained about personal auto insurer in New York’s $10 billion auto insurance market, according to newly released ranking of 167 companies by the state’s Insurance...

Tennessee High Court Blocks Hospital Lien on Insurer’s Benefit Payment

Oct 14 2010 // Hospitals are not entitled to place liens on insurance benefits paid by insurers to third party service providers, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled.The case involved a man, Kevin L. Holt, who was injured in a car...

Aging Gas Pipe at Risk of Explosion Nationwide

Sep 16 2010 // The tragic gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.Utilities have been under...

Nationwide Insurance Will End PGA Tour Sponsorship in 2012

Sep 7 2010 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance has announced it will end its title sponsorship of the PGA Tour’s developmental circuit when the contract expires in two years.Instead, Nationwide will stay involved in golf starting...

Cincinnati Bengals Partnering with Nationwide Insurance on Growl-Off

Aug 6 2010 // Cincinnati Bengals fans will soon know who has the World’s Greatest Bengals Growl, in a first-of-its-kind contest outside Paul Brown Stadium this season. It’s just one element of the new partnership between...

Nationwide Insurance Provides ‘Bait Vehicles’ in Houston

Jul 23 2010 // Nationwide Insurance presented the Houston Police Department, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, and the Webster Police Department with a bait vehicle each to assist with their respective anti-theft/bait vehicle...

Ratings Recap: Builders Group, FMH Group, MAG Mutual, Nationwide (Fla.)

Jun 7 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a-” of Builders Insurance Group and its...

Nationwide Insurance to Hire 1,400, Including 600 in Ohio

May 7 2010 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. announced it will fill 1,400 job openings, including about 600 in its home state of Ohio.The Columbus-based insurance and financial services company is recruiting for entry-level customer...

Fiesta Auto Insurance Opens 20 Locations Nationwide

Apr 23 2010 // Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Fiesta Auto Insurance, a franchise system to combine insurance and tax preparation under one roof, announced it has opened 20 new locations during the past 90 days. The company’s...

Nationwide Seeks 11.7% Homeowner Insurance Increase in Mississippi

Jan 22 2010 // Nationwide Insurance has proposed a 11.7 percent increase in homeowner insurance premiums statewide.The rate request will take effect April 15 unless Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney denies it or has questions....

New NIP Program Targets Funeral Homes Nationwide

Dec 8 2009 // NIP Programs, a division of NIP Group, Inc., has a new specialty insurance program designed to serve the funeral industry nationwide.The new program is called FuneralPro and covers property, business autos like limos and...

2 Insurance Execs Among the Most Powerful, Influential Women in Ohio

Nov 6 2009 // The 2009 Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference announced recently that Gale King, executive vice president and chief human resources officer for Nationwide Insurance; and Kathy Mabe, president and chief operating...

Florida Peninsula Offers to Pick Up Home Policies Dropped by Nationwide

Oct 21 2009 // Florida Peninsula Insurance Co., a domestic property/ casualty company writing homeowners and condominium policies statewide, says it is prepared to insure Florida homeowners policies that Nationwide Insurance Co. of...

Nationwide to Drop 60,000 Policies in Florida

Oct 19 2009 // Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida plans to reduce its personal lines property exposure in the state of Florida by nonrenewing 60,000 homeowners policies across the state.Nationwide said that Tower Hill Group, a Florida...

It Figures

Oct 19 2009 // 10The number of states now reporting an international mail fraud scheme involving a bogus letter said to be from Nationwide Insurance. Residents in 10 states have received counterfeit checks bearing the Nationwide name....

It Figures

Oct 19 2009 // 10The number of states now reporting an international mail fraud scheme involving a bogus letter said to be from Nationwide Insurance. Residents in 10 states have received counterfeit checks bearing the Nationwide name....

Utah Commissioner Warns of “Nationwide” Scam

Oct 8 2009 // Utah officials are warning the public of an international mail fraud scheme involving a bogus letter said to be from Nationwide Insurance. The scam has spread to 10 states, according to the Utah Department of...

Nationwide Insurance to Drop 60,000 Home Policies in Florida

Oct 8 2009 // Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida plans to reduce its personal lines property exposure in the state of Florida by nonrenewing 60,000 homeowners policies across the state.Nationwide said that Tower Hill Group, a Florida...

Nationwide Insurance Donates $50K to Red Cross for Georgia Flood Victims

Oct 2 2009 // The Nationwide Insurance Foundation said it will donate $50,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which helps to provide shelter, food and other assistance to victims of disasters like the Georgia floods. The...

Workers’ Comp Wholesaler Unisource Expands Nationwide

Sep 25 2009 // Unisource Program Administrators (UPA), a workers’ compensation wholesaler, has expanded services to all 50 states. In addition, the company named Barbara Drollinger, a 20-year workers’ compensation expert,...