All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2003 // The Utah Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Utah over the ownership of the assets of WCF.This dispute has been long standing. WCF believes that the assets of the...
Oct 23 2003 // The Texas FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) Plan is on its way to insuring more than 100,000 homeowners before the end of the year, according to the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), and on the Plan’s...
Oct 13 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that a review of terrorism coverages offered by New Hampshire Insurance Company to brownstone property owners has resulted in an agreement with the...
Oct 2 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company (EICN) announced that it has paid out $14.4 million in dividends since commencing operations as a mutual insurance company on Jan. 1, 2000.“As a mutual...
Sep 30 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company (“EICN”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Fremont Employers Insurance Company (“FEIC”) (collectively “the Company”), leading...
Sep 22 2003 // Nothing apparently concentrates the corporate mind so effectively as being named in a criminal complaint. A week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued a sealed indictment which reportedly accused it, and...
Sep 2 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner, Diane Koken received praise from Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney for the Eastern District, for the help her Department gave federal prosecutors investigating Allen W....
Aug 18 2003 // According to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the state reached a settlement with Farmers Insurance Group that requires the company to refund an estimated $2.4 million to about 13,000 Texas motorists who may have paid...
Jul 31 2003 // New Jersey Commissioner Holly Bakke of the Department of Banking and Insurance recently called for a hearing to determine the availability of medical malpractice reinsurance in the New Jersey marketplace. Her announcement...
Jul 30 2003 // In the process of securing policyholders’ confidence and votes for its January 2000 demutualization, John Hancock, through a complex series of actions and omissions, deceived its policyholders into acting against...
Jul 29 2003 // According to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the state has reached a settlement with Farmers Insurance Group that requires the company to refund an estimated $2.4 million to about 13,000 Texas motorists who may have...
Jul 16 2003 // New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Holly Bakke announced a broad-ranging agreement recently to protect consumer access to automobile insurance in New Jersey, in which subsidiaries of American International Group...
Jun 24 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York noted that both houses of the State Legislature have passed a bill, initiated by the PIANY, to help agents help their clients by strengthening policyholder protection.The bill,...
Jun 23 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher placed a Bethany insurance agency under supervision after charges surfaced that its owner may have stolen more than $100,000 from her customers in the form of hidden refunds....
Jun 18 2003 // A Senate bill that would reportedly create the country’s most restrictive privacy standards passed the full Senate and is pending in the Assembly, where it was heard June 17 in the Assembly Banking and Finance...
Jun 18 2003 // A report on the French insurance market released by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services calls the outlook in both the life and P/C sectors “stable.” S&P had previously classed the P/C...
Jun 16 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher placed a Bethany insurance agency into supervision after learning that its owner may have stolen more than $100,000 from her customers in the form of refunds she hid from...
Jun 9 2003 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals recently rejected the theory of liability stacking with regard to automobile insurance, the American Insurance Association (AIA) reported. In the case of Linda Ann Slack, et al. v. James...
Jun 9 2003 // State District Judge Scott Jenkins gave preliminary approval to the $117.5 million settlement between the State of Texas and Farmers Insurance. The record settlement is the result of action taken by the Texas Office of...
Jun 4 2003 // The California Court of Appeal recently ruled that Lloyd’s of London could not force a self-employed plumbing contractor to arbitrate his claim for bad faith denial of disability insurance benefits. Trial Lawyers for...