All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 2 2005 // Five insurance companies are set to recover 2.3 million euros ($3 million) from the French government, while Air France will collect 850,000 euros ($1.1 million) as the result of a court ruling in Marseille stemming from...
Feb 1 2005 // A Riviera Beach, Fla. man who sold fake motor vehicle insurance cards to nearly 200 South Florida drivers has been sentenced to three years in prison and more than a dozen of his customers are facing charges that they...
Jan 28 2005 // Attorney General Henry McMaster announced today in Columbia, S.C. that nine individuals pleaded guilty between Oct. 21, 2004 and Jan. 13, 2005 to 16 counts of Presenting False Claims for Payment, a felony violation of...
Jan 24 2005 // Nine Armenian charitable groups will receive $3 million over the next two weeks as part of a $20 million settlement between an insurance company and descendants of Armenians killed nearly 90 years ago in the Turkish...
Jan 16 2005 // A proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriages in Arizona would outlaw all government-sponsored benefits to domestic partners.Republican Reps. Mark Anderson and Warde Nichols said their proposal will mirror...
Jan 14 2005 // Joint investigations by the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in the felony arrests of four suspects for multiple counts of...
Jan 7 2005 // Four small insurance companies are in the process of canceling 9,000 policies, while one is leaving Florida, according to Valerie Beynon, an Office of Insurance Regulation spokeswoman.Liberty American, Penn Charter,...
Jan 5 2005 // Thirteen Florida insurance companies have requested 11 to 60 percent premium rate increases from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). Regulators will be reviewing the requests this month and will either...
Jan 3 2005 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued Certificates of Authority to two new insurance companies, Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Company, and Southern Oak Insurance Company. Both companies will...
Dec 20 2004 // Ten small Alaska communities have discontinued their municipal insurance because of declining assistance from the state and rising insurance and fuel costs, and another dozen could follow within the next few months, said...
Nov 19 2004 // Six residents in Peeks Creek, N.C. where four people died in a Hurricane Ivan-triggered landslide have hired lawyers to represent them after being denied insurance claims.Fifteen houses were damaged or destroyed in Peeks...
Nov 11 2004 // Georgia and West Virginia are two southeast states that could reconsider their earlier approval of the Anthem Inc./WellPoint merger, after California’s $265 million concessions package in California.Seven other...