All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2010 // New York insurance regulators recovered $32.3 million last year for consumers who complained about insurers’ business practices and claims handling.The Insurance Department investigates approximately 60,000...
Feb 22 2010 // Recent policyholder inspections by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. found some homeowners are getting more of a discount for fortifying their homes than they are eligible for.The state-backed insurer looked at 452...
Feb 22 2010 // In a move he says will prevent the addition of policies into Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s book of business, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved an agreement with The...
Feb 7 2010 // The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office said an audit of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for 2008 found enough problems that it could not issue an opinion on the accuracy of the insurer’s...
Feb 5 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group has asked state insurance regulators for permission to shut down two of the three property insurance companies it operates in Louisiana and shift about half of the affected 15,500 policyholders...
Jan 27 2010 // A January 2010 opinion editorial, “Don’t deregulate insurance: Consumers only ‘choice’ would be bad” bylined by three consumer advocates totally misses the mark on the benefits of the Consumer...
Jan 15 2010 // Boston-based insurer Safety Insurance Group Inc. said it has reached an agreement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office to change the way in which it calculated motorcycle insurance premiums for certain...
Jan 7 2010 // For the third consecutive year, the Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company will be returning a dividend to all LAMMICO policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas.Nearly 6,000 policyholders will receive a 10 percent...
Dec 30 2009 // Columbus, Ohio-based Motorists Insurance Group has created a new division to focus resources on agent-facing technology, agency interface priorities and develop call center best practices for all companies in the group.In...
Dec 22 2009 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $16.2 billion through nine-months 2009, partially recovering from the 91.2 percent decline to $4.4 billion through nine-months 2008 from $49.6...
Dec 17 2009 // The Board of Directors of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has declared a 2009 dividend of $15 million, to be paid to qualifying policyholders in early 2010 upon authorization by the Louisiana...
Dec 6 2009 // The six-year battle between the Texas Department of Insurance and State Farm Lloyd’s (SFL) over homeowners insurance rates that TDI says are excessive is destined to continue. State Farm appealed an order signed by...
Nov 25 2009 // More than 300,000 current and former policyholders of General American Life Insurance Co. will soon receive $75 million in distribution payments, according to the Missouri Department of Insurance.In 1999, the Missouri DOI...
Nov 17 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance has ordered State Farm Lloyd’s (SFL) to refund a total of $310 million to policyholders after finding that the insurer had overcharged customers beginning in 2003.It’s a...
Nov 11 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, has begun distributing approximately $1 million in dividends among nearly 2,600 first-year policyholders across the state. In total, Texas...
Nov 4 2009 // The Arizona Department of Insurance has fined Aetna Life Insurance Company and Aetna Health, Inc., after examination of their practices exposed multiple violations of Arizona insurance laws.The department has ordered the...
Nov 1 2009 // Though it may seem like the debate over the creation of a national catastrophe insurance plan is a relatively recent phenomenon, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners actually began addressing the issue as...
Oct 30 2009 // Homeowners Choice, Inc. reports it has been selected as the replacement home insurer for policyholders of American Keystone Insurance Co., which was placed into receivership earlier this month.All of American...
Oct 27 2009 // As insurance companies begin mailing notices to Wisconsin customers telling them that their premiums are likely to increase soon, state politicians are scrambling to avoid the blame.The first changes expected to affect...
Oct 23 2009 // Illinois Director of Insurance Michael McRaith has suspended the operations of medical liability insurer Professional Liability Insurance Company of America (PLICA). Under the Department of Insurance order dated Oct. 22,...