All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2005 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group has rated Wheeling, W. Va. the third safest place to live in the U.S., while Parkersburg/Marietta,W. Va. was ninth on the list of 20 small towns. The rankings were part of a study...
Jul 4 2005 // The Louisiana State Police Insu-rance Fraud Unit arrested three Ville Platte residents on felony insurance fraud related warrants. The state police said the arrests were the result of an investigation into a staged...
Jun 20 2005 // Three suspects were arraigned May 11 in Ventura County Superior Court in connection with a workers’ comp premium fraud investigation conducted by the CDI Fraud Division.Tomer Rotholz, a former licensed contractor,...
Jun 20 2005 // The California State Senate recently passed SB 2 and SB 518, two homeowners bills that are now in the Assembly Insurance Committee. Both bills passed 23-15 in the Senate.SB 2, authored by Senator Jackie Speier...
Jun 20 2005 // The California State Senate recently passed SB 2 and SB 518, two homeowners bills that are now in the Assembly Insurance Committee. Both bills passed 23-15 in the Senate.SB 2, authored by Senator Jackie Speier...
Jun 20 2005 // The personal lines industry may be viewed through multiple competitive prisms. These include the classic independent agent versus direct writer perspective; independent and exclusive agents versus the banks, and...
May 30 2005 // Five of West Virginia’s largest carriers have pledged to lower premiums by more than $54 million, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline. Within the past month State Farm, Nationwide, Erie, Allstate and...
May 25 2005 // Two Broward County men are facing felony fraud charges after a state investigation determined they staged an accident in January and then filed fraudulent insurance claims for injuries that did not occur. Jesse Demetro,...
May 12 2005 // Three suspects were arraigned May 11 in Ventura County Superior Court in connection with a workers’ compensation premium fraud investigation conducted by the California Department of Insurance Fraud Division.Tomer...
May 6 2005 // Authorities arrested four suspects May 6 after an extensive investigation into a workers’ compensation and payroll tax fraud scheme, one in which the suspects allegedly underreported the payroll of their Saratoga...
Apr 4 2005 // Gov. Brad Henry’s tort reform bill, Senate Bill 914, died in the Oklahoma State Senate, with the Senate refusing to hear the bill on the last day that body could consider its own bills. Senate Democrats reportedly...
Apr 1 2005 // Who can forget the way the policy for that ’76 Gremlin smelled? How about those deductibles from that Merkur policy? Sure, they don’t make the car any longer, but that’s what makes the policy valuable!...
Mar 22 2005 // Zurich-based Converium announced that Dr. Markus Dennler, former CEO of Credit Suisse Group’s Life & Pensions business, and Rudolf Kellenberger, former Deputy CEO of Swiss Re, will run for election as members of...
Mar 11 2005 // Four investment banks this week agreed to pay a total of $428.4 million to settle claims stemming from a class-action lawsuit brought by former shareholders of WorldCom Inc.New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said in a...
Feb 24 2005 // Two Cherokee County, Ala. insurance agents have been sentenced in a Birmingham court on charges of bribery of elected officials. James L. Williams and Michael Tillery pleaded guilty in November to giving money to county...
Feb 21 2005 // Two former top officers of collapsed Reciprocal of America are scheduled for sentencing in June for their roles in what a federal prosecutor called one of Virginia’s biggest insurance fraud cases. Kenneth R....
Feb 14 2005 // APPEX (Agency Peak Performance EXchange) welcomed three new Western region partners to their membership.Al Purmort, Sr. founded the Al Purmort Insurance Agency in September of 1985 after leaving the Purmort and Martin...
Feb 11 2005 // Two former top officers of collapsed Reciprocal of America are scheduled for sentencing in June for their roles in what a federal prosecutor called one of Virginia’s biggest insurance fraud cases.Kenneth R. Patterson...
Feb 7 2005 // Joint investigations by the CDI’s Fraud Division and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in the felony arrests of four suspects for multiple counts of workers’ comp insurance...
Feb 4 2005 // On Jan. 13, 2005, Victor Morales Delgado and his brother-in-law, Jose Guerrero, both of Sacramento, self-surrendered to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Organized Auto Insurance Task Force (Task...