All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 21 2004 // Salt Lake City-based Workers Compensation Fund announced that it will pay dividends totaling $20 million to policyholders this year. All eligible policyholders, regardless of company or policy size, will receive a portion...
Jun 15 2004 // A proposed ballot measure for the November elections that would dismantle the public company that provides worker compensation insurance could make millions for a Portland attorney and his law firm.Call it the DiLorenzo...
Jun 14 2004 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor announced that Texas-based American National Insurance Company (ANICO) has agreed to provide an estimated $3.2 million to $3.5 million in additional benefits to African-American...
Jun 11 2004 // The Massachusetts House and Senate have both approved legislation to deregulate insurance rates and forms for certain large commercial risks.The measure permits commercial accounts with more than $30,000 in premium that...
Jun 9 2004 // Georgia-based Builders Insurance Group announced that it is paying its eighth, consecutive, annual dividend to policyholders.This year’s dividend totals $2.2 million and will be distributed among thousands of...
Jun 7 2004 // The Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) recently distributed its first-ever dividend, returning $10 million to over 21,000 qualifying Louisiana policyholders. LWCC said the distribution was a goal of...
Jun 7 2004 // In a class-action suit, a group of Colorado drivers claim that they have overpaid auto insurance premiums over the past 25 years and that they should be reimbursed for the overcharges. The 2003 suit was filed in Boulder...
Jun 7 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s “Homeowners’ Bill of Rights” package is continuing to move through the California State Legislature. The four main measures have all moved out of...
Jun 7 2004 // Some large brokerage firms are under siege by New York Attorney General Eliott Spitzer as his investigation scrutinizes the legality of the longstanding practice of Placement Service Agreements (PSAs). This is really about...
Jun 4 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi approved the Automoblie Club of Southern California’s filing to reduce its insurance affiliate’s policy premiums by five percent.The filing, officially made by the...
Jun 2 2004 // Salt Lake City-based Workers Compensation Fund announced that it will pay dividends totaling $20 million to policyholders this year.All eligible policyholders, regardless of company or policy size, will receive a portion...
Jun 1 2004 // Providence Washington Insurance Companies is shutting down after more than two centuries, a victim of financial losses, an inability to raise capital and failure to find a buyer.The Providence, R.I.-based company’s...
May 28 2004 // A recently published study by the A.M. Best Company, titled Best’s Insolvency Study: Property/Casualty U.S. Insurers, 1969-2002, provides further evidence that the national system of state-based insurance regulation...
May 27 2004 // Approximately 28,000 Texas employers will receive a share of $50 million in dividends from Texas Mutual Insurance Company.The Texas Mutual board of directors unanimously approved the 2004 dividend plan, which includes an...
May 26 2004 // A bill that would reportedly assure that policyholders of insolvent insurance companies would have their claims paid according to the agreed-upon deductible amounts under their policies passed the Pennsylvania House...
May 20 2004 // The Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced the distribution of its first-ever dividend, returning $10 million to over 21,000 qualifying Louisiana policyholders.This was a goal of the Board of...
May 17 2004 // A group of Colorado motorists claim they have overpaid auto insurance premiums for the past 25 years and should be reimbursed.Insurance representatives claim if the proposed class-action lawsuit is successful, it could...
May 17 2004 // New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Group doesn’t advertise, does little self-promotion and tells its employees to put good service above growing the company.There are no fancy corner offices, no posh boxes at sports...
May 17 2004 // Oregon’s State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) recently released a 10-point self-evaluation in response to Governor Ted Kulongoski’s concerns about the publicly-owned workers’ compensation insurance...
May 11 2004 // The National Flood Insurance Program has completed reviews of the first group of claims review requests received from policyholders who suffered Hurricane Isabel-related damage. As part of the ongoing review, the National...