All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers (AFTL) and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) are launching a national petition drive calling on insurance...
Aug 18 2006 // State Farm Insurance, California’s largest auto insurer, has applied for an 8 percent average reduction for its policyholders while simultaneously implementing new auto rate regulations, according to the Department...
Aug 18 2006 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced he has ordered a Kansas insurance company to return $1,016,518 in overcharges to 159 Georgia customers.Oxendine said Universal Underwriters Insurance Company will...
Aug 16 2006 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt has filed an application for an Order of Liquidation of The Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co. Ltd. The order seeks to authorize Commissioner Schmidt as liquidator to take...
Aug 15 2006 // As wildfire season stretches across the Western states from June through September, Christina Urias, director of the Arizona Department of Insurance, has lit a fire under agents and insurers to work with their clients to...
Aug 14 2006 // Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim.Batesville...
Aug 11 2006 // More than 1,100 current and former military personnel in Washington will be eligible to share in a $70 million multi-state settlement signed by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler over the improper sale of insurance and...
Aug 10 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that he intends to approve an average 8 percent decrease in premium rates for policyholders of United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a move that the...
Aug 8 2006 // Kemper Auto and Home announced that it is participating in the effort to help policyholders of Texas Select Lloyds Insurance Company make the adjustment away from the recently liquidated insurer to a new insurer.The...
Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...
Aug 7 2006 // Wildfires, captives, credit scoring, and broker compensation and disclosure have been hot topics lately especially since wildfire season in particular extends through September. But the Arizona Department of Insurance...
Aug 7 2006 // Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholdersSome 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the...
Aug 7 2006 // Wildfires, captives, credit scoring, and broker compensation and disclosure have been hot topics lately — especially since wildfire season in particular extends through September. But the Arizona Department of...
Aug 4 2006 // Lawyers for hundreds of Mississippi homeowners who sued their insurance companies for denying their claims after Hurricane Katrina are fighting to keep the cases joined in a “mass action” rather than split up...
Aug 4 2006 // Fairfield, Calif.-based GeoVera Holdings Inc., which entered the Texas homeowners market in April 2006, announced they are actively working with Texas producers to secure replacement coverage for policyholders insured with...
Aug 4 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has issued a statement announcing his intention to review and consider approval of an average 22 percent decrease in homeowners insurance rates for policyholders of United...
Aug 4 2006 // Members of Associated Builders & Contractors’ Sierra chapter received premium refunds from Builders Insurance Company as part of the workers’ comp insurer’s “retro” plan. A retrospective...
Jul 31 2006 // The extreme heat, coupled with humidity, winds and an abundance of dry brush cover are perfect ingredients for serious wildfires in California this fire season. The Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), an...
Jul 28 2006 // Add America First Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, to the list of insurers that are actively working with Texas agents to assist policyholders with Texas Select Lloyds Insurance Company, which was recently put...
Jul 26 2006 // The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced it is accepting from independent agents policies of former Texas Select customers. The Texas Department of Insurance has mandated that all Texas Select policies will be...