Latest Nebraska Headlines

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Neb. State Retirement Board Fires Bank, Hires Life Company

Sep 11 2006 // The Nebraska Public Employees Retirement Board has decided to fire Union Bank & Trust, citing performance issues.The Lincoln-based bank had won a contract earlier this year to manage the retirement plan records of...

Neb. Approves High-Risk Health Pool Rate Change of 23.5 Percent

Aug 21 2006 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced recently that it has approved the recommendation of the Nebraska Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool (CHIP) Board of Directors to increase the high-risk pool rates by 23.5...

Neb. Autobody Assn. Study Finds Consumers Hesitant to File Auto Claims

Apr 6 2006 // Findings in a study by the Nebraska Autobody Association found that consumers were disinclined to file automotive claims with their insurance company.Sixty-four percent of survey respondents said they would generally feel...

Alabama, Nebraska Receive $1.2M Hurricane Counseling Grants

Apr 3 2006 // Alabama and Nebraska have been awarded $1.2 million for crisis counseling assistance in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, according to Charles Curie, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental...

Nebraska Senators Take ‘Hit in the Wallet’ to Pay Health Insurance Bill

Feb 2 2006 // Nebraska state senators took a hit in the wallet recently when some were left with little of their state pay check in order to pay their health insurance premiums.Due to a 22 percent increase in health insurance costs,...

Nebraskans Warned About Service Contract Scams

Jul 27 2005 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance is advising consumers to be inquisitive when looking to purchase a motor vehicle service contract, often called extended warranty. These contracts need to be backed by an insurer...

Neb. DOI Issues C&D Order to Richard A. Brooks and Brooks & Associates Ltd.

Jul 21 2005 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance issued a Cease and Desist order against Richard A. Brooks and Brooks & Associates Ltd., 1338 Park Avenue, River Forest, Ill., instructing Brooks to immediately cease transacting...

Allocation

Jul 18 2005 // Wooddale Builders vs. Maryland Casualty Co. (Minnestoa Court of Appeals, May 3, 2005)-Ruling: Appropriate end date for time-on-the-risk allocation is date of remediation.House builder brought action against commercial...

Case Law Watch

Jul 18 2005 // Wooddale Builders vs. Maryland Casualty Co. (Minnestoa Court of Appeals, May 3, 2005) —Ruling: Appropriate end date for time-on-the-risk allocation is date of remediation.House builder brought action against...

FEMA, NEMA Aid Neb. Residents Following May Storms

Jul 17 2005 // Sixty days after severe storms and flooding struck central Nebraska, many counties and towns continue to work restoring their damaged roads, water drainage systems and infrastructure.Thirty eligible applicants for federal...

Regulators Hit PCI Csiszar’s Pitches Out of the Park

May 9 2005 // State insurance department representatives responded to fast balls, curves and sliders thrown at them by Ernie Csiszar, president and chief executive officer of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, during...

PCI’s Csiszar, Panelists Discuss Sarbanes-Oxley, TRIA Concerns

Apr 19 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association’s Joint Marketing and Underwriting Seminar, held April 17 in St. Petersburg, Fla., had a baseball motif, “Hitting a Grand Slam with Marketing and Underwriting Tools...

PIA National Names Neb. Agent as Tops

Apr 15 2005 // Carter “Cap” Peterson of Wayne, Nebraska was named 2005 Professional Agent of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents during an awards luncheon on April 9, in Arlington,...

Nebraska Plan Offers Online Rating For Private Passenger Applicants

Feb 23 2005 // The Nebraska Automobile Insurance Assigned Risk Plan offers an online rating interface for certain private passenger risks applying for auto insurance coverage. The interface is a feature of an electronic application...

Neb. DOI Says 30,000 Covered by Possibly Fraudulent Health Plans

Feb 7 2005 // Citing a report from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Insurance stated that an estimated 30,145 Nebraskans were found to be covered by self-insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements. As a...

Neb. DOI Says 30,000 Covered by Possibly Fraudulent Health Plans

Jan 21 2005 // Citing a report from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Insurance stated that an estimated 30,145 Nebraskans were found to be covered by self-insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements. As a...

PCI Puts Support Behind Neb. Personal Lines Rate and Form Modernization

Oct 27 2004 // Momentum is building for Nebraska to enact personal lines rate and form modernization in 2005, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).During 2004 the state legislature did not have time to...

Insuring the Cornhusker State

Sep 20 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated Nebraska’s population at 1.7 million. About 87 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 24 percent had earned a bachelor’s...

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...

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...