All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 12 2004 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman announced that a new fraud unit and insurance fraud awareness media campaign are starting statewide. The new unit, which will serve to investigate and deter insurance fraud,...
Jan 26 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay $54,679 in restitution to Workforce Safety & Insurance after pleading guilty to fraud in South Central District Court Dec. 16, according to a statement released by the North...
Dec 23 2003 // In a special bulletin from Bismarck, North Dakota the state’s Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) office confirmed that, “In response to a request postmarked from the North Pole, it has granted Santa Claus...
Dec 15 2003 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman has been elected by his peers to serve as vice president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for 2004. The vote, by members of the NAIC, was held Dec. 7,...
Dec 8 2003 // During the Winter National Meeting in Anaheim, members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected regulators from South Carolina, North Dakota and Oregon to serve as the association’s 2004...
Nov 3 2003 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman issued a cease and desist order today against My Smart Benefits Inc., an Indiana company that administers self-funded employee benefit plans for several employers in the...
Sep 22 2003 // A Williston, N.D., man has become the first employer ever sentenced to serve jail time for committing workers’ compensation fraud in state history, according to a statement from the Insurance Department.Robert...
May 12 2003 // North Dakota’s 2003 legislative session was reportedly a very positive session for property/casualty insurers highlighted by the passage of legislation dealing with the payment of attorney fees in uninsured motorist...
Apr 14 2003 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman and Nodak Mutual Insurance Company President Doug Goehring announced today that insurance executive Bruce A. Trost will be the new Chief Executive Officer of the company....
Apr 10 2003 // Legislation regulating the use of credit-based insurance scores was recently signed by North Dakota’s governor and has passed the Kansas legislature. Three other states, Colorado, Virginia and Wyoming have enacted...
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
Mar 3 2003 // North Dakota Workers’ Compensation (NDWC) plans to cover potential health-care workers’ and emergency responders’ adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine during phase two of the national program to...
Feb 11 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” down the road to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National...
Feb 5 2003 // North Dakota employers paid the lowest workers’ compensation premiums in the nation, according to a new survey by the Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services.National premium rates ranged from North...
Dec 31 2002 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has issued a bulletin informing all insurers “seeking to market policies for the coverage of crop hail insurance” in the state, that March 1, 2003 is the deadline for all...
Dec 24 2002 // The following press bulletin was received from Mark Armstrong of North Dakota Workers Compensation. Due to the timely nature of the dispatch, and the hope that regulators in other states will take notice, we are taking the...
Dec 10 2002 // A report, issued jointly by North Dakota’s Workers Compensation Executive Director and CEO Brent Edison and Secretary of State Al Jaeger, indicates that the inter-agency effort, the Construction Compliance Task...
Dec 9 2002 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman announced that his Department has issued a “Cease and Desist Order” against former Wimbledon insurance agent Duane Huber, following his recent conviction on 19...
Nov 19 2002 // The Northeast Judicial Court of Devils Lake, North Dakota sentenced Myron Wittwer to serve 30 days in the Bottineau County Jail with 30 days suspended for a period of 1 year, and placed him on unsupervised probation for a...
Oct 14 2002 // The North Dakota Workers Compensation (NDWC) announced that the Budget Section of the Legislature has given its approval to a proposal to allow the employers of North Dakota the flexibility to obtain workers’...