All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2006 // Outsourcing often receives a bad rap, with large corporations using it to reduce staff count, bureaucracy and overhead. However, for smaller companies such as small and medium sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a...
Jan 2 2006 // Two of New York’s 70 workers compensation self-insurance trusts are being shut down for their inability to meet financial standards set by state officials.The two trusts are the Provider Agency Trust for Human...
Jan 2 2006 // Liberty Mutual and Federated National insurance companies have asked Florida regulators for double-digit rate increases.Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. wants to raise rates by a statewide average of 25 percent, and Federated...
Jan 2 2006 // Eight members of an alleged staged-crash-ring, accused of filing more than $100,000 in fraudulent insurance claims in a staged accident have been arrested in Miami.Brothers and suspected ringleaders Jimmy Desir, 27, and...
Jan 2 2006 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Vincent Mazzara,...
Jan 1 2006 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Vincent Mazzara,...
Dec 29 2005 // Three operators of an Orange County, Calif., clinic pleaded guilty to charges they bilked insurers out of nearly $15 million by operating on healthy people, authorities said.Scheme mastermind Tam Vu Pham, 41, faces 13...
Dec 28 2005 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents has four key goals to accomplish in 2006 according to Jeff Grady, FAIA president and CEO, first, to pass its property insurance market proposal; second, to pass FAIA’s...
Dec 19 2005 // Seventeen named storms could strike the Atlantic basin next year, with nine developing into hurricanes, if predictions by William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University based in Ft. Collins come true. They...
Dec 19 2005 // Arrests of nine Broward County residents indicted for defrauding the Federal Emergency Assistance Agency to obtain disaster relief after last year’s Hurricane Frances have been announced jointly by R. Alexander...
Dec 19 2005 // Seventeen named storms could strike the Atlantic basin next year, with nine developing into hurricanes, if predictions by William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University based in Ft. Collins come true. They...
Dec 19 2005 // Six Mississippi residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in an effort to obtain relief funds from Hurricane Katrina.The Gulfport Sun...
Dec 13 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of six suspects following a two-year, multi-agency undercover investigation into an alleged insurance fraud “mill” that reportedly...
Dec 5 2005 // Following are key findings in the 2005 Fulbright and Jaworski 2005 Litigation Trends Survey.1) Litigation Dockets –Eighty-seven percent of American companies are engaged in some form of litigation in the United...
Nov 23 2005 // A judge this week convicted two men of the murder of an insurance agent whose body was found in a North Philadelphia trash bin last year.Common Pleas Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan, after a nonjury trial, convicted Michael...
Nov 21 2005 // Three Mississippi residents have been accused of making false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Hur-ricane Katrina relief funds.Dunn Lampton, U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Mississippi, told...
Nov 3 2005 // A year after the contingent commission scandal rocked the commercial insurance industry, new research from Advisen Ltd. has found significant shifts in the relationship between commercial insurance buyers and their brokers...
Nov 1 2005 // Two protective orders, one protecting consumers from being dropped by their insurers while repair work is being done, and a second prohibiting insurance companies from canceling of non-renewing any insurance policy until...
Oct 17 2005 // Insurance sales promotions aren’t for the bashful. Agents must relentlessly try fresh marketing approaches while simultaneously working to improve on any past successes. Meanwhile, there are new and exciting...
Oct 13 2005 // Three Quincy, Mass. residents have been charged in an under-the-table payroll scheme in which they allegedly paid hundreds of temporary employees, who performed manual labor at factories and warehouses in Massachusetts, a...