All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2003 // DORIS Insurance Systems and Afni Insurance Services have formed a partnership to deliver 24/7 service capabilities to DORIS customers. DORIS selected CSR24 from Afni Insurance Services as its 24/7 service and is making it...
May 30 2003 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken has issued an announcement urging the state’s consumers to review their insurance policies for information on coverage of property damage from weather-related...
May 12 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...
May 5 2003 // Colorado’s major automobile insurers are reportedly urging lawmakers to reject a last ditch no-fault auto insurance reform plan that would offer no cost saving for policyholders.Members of the National Association of...
May 1 2003 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission announced that it has temporarily stopped the payment of certain claims by Reciprocal of America (ROA) – a Virginia-domiciled reciprocal that was placed into receivership...
Apr 24 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers announced that representatives had appeared at a public hearing held yesterday in Delaware to ensure that the effectiveness of credit-based insurance scoring was not...
Apr 18 2003 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced that former policyholders of Exchange Insurance Company, which is now under state supervision, now have options in their search to obtain new homeowners...
Apr 7 2003 // The March 2000 thunderstorm blew in without much warning during the Fort Worth, Texas early evening rush hour. When softball-size hail smashed through the roof of a downtown restaurant, customer Mario Valverde headed for...
Mar 24 2003 // December is the most dreaded month for a surplus lines broker. In addition to all the 12/31 and 1/1 renewals, one must deal with underwriters and employees having the gall to go on vacation, holiday parties, holiday...
Mar 17 2003 // “Virginia’s 2003 legislative session ended with the softening of many bills that could have made it much more difficult for insurance companies to conduct business in the state,” said an announcement from...
Mar 10 2003 // December is the most dreaded month for a surplus lines broker. In addition to all the 12/31 and 1/1 renewals, one must deal with underwriters and employees having the gall to go on vacation, holiday parties, holiday...
Mar 7 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance is searching for 33,000 Texans, each of whom has a $209.50 check coming as his or her piece of a small insurance company that failed in 1992. According to TDI about $7 million will be...
Mar 6 2003 // A study commissioned by the Alaska Insurance Division on the use of credit-based insurance scoring did not find a connection between insurance scores and income or ethnicity. Moreover, the report is riddled with...
Feb 19 2003 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) says a California consumer privacy bill that was set to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 18 is unnecessary because current state law and department of...
Jan 31 2003 // Insurance companies will be prohibited from using credit records to cancel or not renew current policyholders under rules adopted by the Oregon Insurance Division. The division developed the rules in response to consumer...
Jan 30 2003 // Builders Insurance Group announced it is distributing its seventh consecutive, annual dividend to insureds. This year’s dividend totals $2.2 million and will be distributed among thousands of qualified policyholders...
Jan 22 2003 // Acting Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley announced that State Farm will issue new information to Louisiana policyholders clarifying the company’s prior notice on mold and fungus claims.Over the past...
Dec 31 2002 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance announced that Piedmont Insurance Company recently became the subject of an Order of Liquidation which declared the company insolvent and directed the South Carolina Department of...
Dec 19 2002 // The Insurance Departments of several Midwestern states have rushed to assure policyholders that Conseco’s long anticipated bankruptcy filing, announced yesterday, will have minimal impact on their investments.The...
Dec 17 2002 // Rupert C. Hall, president of Golden Bear Insurance Company, announced that Golden Bear increased its policyholders surplus by 40 percent. In October of this year, Golden Bear executives had meetings with both the...