All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2008 // A California Court of Appeals has allowed policyholders in the Farmers Insurance Exchanges to question alleged excessiveness of management fees charged to them by Farmers Group Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich...
Mar 13 2008 // The Board of Governors of the Alaska Timber Insurance Exchange (ATIE), a policyholder owned workers’ compensation insurance company, is paying a $2.8 million dividend to its members based on their performance in...
Mar 12 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty signed an order approving Citizens Property Insurance Corp. take-out plans for the year and requiring Citizens to notify policyholders whose agents have refused to allow their...
Mar 10 2008 // Levees can also erode and decay over time and require regular maintenance and upkeep to continue to offer the level of protection they were designed to provide.In the United States, floods are the most common natural...
Feb 25 2008 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against State Farm in a dispute over whether the insurance company delivered the medical coverage it promised in its automobile policies.The Supreme...
Feb 24 2008 // Legislation approved in early February by the Washington House of Representatives is unnecessary and limits consumer choice, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA).“Policymakers just enacted a law in...
Feb 24 2008 // The Idaho House passed legislation (HB 429) this month that requires that auto insurance policies provide underinsured motorist coverage unless the policyholder signs a form specifically rejecting the coverage.HB 429,...
Feb 15 2008 // The Idaho House passed legislation (HB 429) on Wednesday that requires auto insurance policies provide underinsured motorist coverage unless the policyholder signs a form specifically rejecting the coverage.HB 429 would...
Feb 12 2008 // It took a new state law but the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has begun to offer coverage for home invasions, child abductions, car jackings and stalking threats as part of its homeowners policies sold in New York...
Feb 11 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. recently announced that it is now offering a comprehensive “Life Stages” identity management program providing free access to proactive and resolution services for...
Feb 8 2008 // Legislation approved Monday by the Washington House of Representatives is unnecessary and limits consumer choice, says the American Insurance Association (AIA).“Policymakers just enacted a law in 2007, SB 5052, that...
Feb 4 2008 // A federal jury has ordered an Oklahoma City-based insurance company to pay $10.8 million for improperly reducing the benefit owed to the mother of a policyholder who died.American Fidelity Assurance Co. said it was...
Jan 27 2008 // A national consumer organization has charged that property casualty insurers are unfairly overcharging for home and auto insurance at the same time they are reducing payments to insureds.According to the Consumer...
Jan 27 2008 // Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage for troublesome risks. Plus, customers are...
Jan 25 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says his office opened a new criminal investigation of State Farm Insurance Cos. that is separate from its earlier probe of the insurer’s “crimes against...
Jan 13 2008 // The Travelers Cos. Inc. will pay $6 million to settle investigations in nine states and the District of Columbia over how it paid brokers.The St. Paul-based company said it had reached agreements with attorneys general in...
Jan 13 2008 // Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage for troublesome risks. Plus, customers are...
Jan 13 2008 // The Travelers Cos. Inc. will pay $6 million to settle investigations in nine states and the District of Columbia regarding how it paid brokers.The St. Paul-based company said it had reached agreements with attorneys...
Jan 10 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it will extend credit to policyholders who have suffered a financial loss or business disruption caused by recent wind and rainstorms that struck the counties...
Jan 8 2008 // The board of directors of Lebanon Mutual Insurance Co. of Cleona, Pa., has adopted a plan to convert the insurer from a mutual to a stock organization.Under the plan, Lebanon will convert from a Pennsylvania mutual...