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Industry to Congress: Private Market Is the Best Solution on Natural Disasters, But Some Say Federal Help Needed

Apr 11 2007 // The private insurance marketplace, not the federal government, is the best vehicle to address coastal insurance issues and natural disasters in the U.S., according to insurers. Even so, the federal government can play a...

On shaky ground?

Apr 9 2007 // Two decades since its formation, the West’s only regional catastrophe pool, the California Earthquake Authority, faces financial and management changes that could have significant implications for its future. Those...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

57,000 Fla. customers of liquidated Vanguard given policy options

Apr 9 2007 // Leon County (Florida) Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis approved an order on March 27 allowing Royal Palm Insurance Co. and Security First Insurance Co. to offer new coverage to the 57,000 homeowner policyholders...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

News Currents

Apr 9 2007 // 57,000 Fla. customers of liquidated Vanguard given policy optionsLeon County (Florida) Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis approved an order on March 27 allowing Royal Palm Insurance Co. and Security First Insurance Co. to...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

On shaky ground?

Apr 9 2007 // Two decades since its formation, the West’s only regional catastrophe pool, the California Earthquake Authority, faces financial and management changes that could have significant implications for its future. Those...

Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

Apr 9 2007 // The government’s role in insurance markets is a matter of increasing importance and controversy. Historically, state insurance departments have regulated insurers and insurance markets, overseeing solvency, rate and...

38 More Miss. Katrina Suits Settled in Mediation, Judge Reports

Apr 6 2007 // Thirty-eight more Hurricane Katrina insurance cases of Mississippi residents have been settled during court-order mediation, says U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr.More mediations will begin in May, according to...

Iowa Gov.Culver Questions State’s Handling of Conseco Fine

Apr 6 2007 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and lawmakers are questioning why the Iowa Insurance Division fined an insurance company $750,000, but didn’t make public the reasons for the penalty.Culver is concerned the agreement with...

Fla. Policyholders of Failed Vanguard Given Policy Options

Mar 28 2007 // Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis approved an order allowing Royal Palm Insurance Co. and Security First Insurance Co. to offer new coverage to the 57,000 homeowner policyholders currently with Maitland-based...

News Currents

Mar 26 2007 // La.’s Donelon forges agreement with Allstate over cancelled policiesLouisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reported on March 19, 2007, that he had reached a settlement with Allstate concerning 4,772...

Miss. State Farm $50 million settlement falters

Mar 26 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement affecting some 36,000 claims with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage have withdrawn their request for a federal judge to approve the...

Miss. Gov. Barbour Signs Wind Pool Premium Relief Bill

Mar 26 2007 // Gov. Haley Barbour signed a new law on March 22 designed to shore up Mississippi’s insurer of last resort and to bring economic stability to a state still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.After Katrina plowed across...

In Miss., Dale Moves In with State Farm Settlement as Scruggs Withdraws

Mar 21 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 Mississippi policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and “make millions of dollars available” for additional payments, Mississippi...

Mich. Chamber, Insurance Institute Critical of No-Fault Related Proposal

Mar 20 2007 // The Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the Insurance Institute of Michigan, are urging a no vote in the Senate in response to recent passage of legislation that would make it easier to sue for non-economic damages under the...

La.’s Donelon Forges Settlement with Allstate over Cancelled Policies

Mar 19 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that he has reached a favorable settlement for the 4,772 Allstate policyholders in four south Louisiana parishes whose homeowners insurance was cancelled as part of...