All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 26 2004 // The Vermont House this week gave preliminary approval to a series of measures designed to lower workers’ compensation insurance premiums.The 101-39 vote came after critics of the bill complained that it would hurt...
Feb 13 2004 // Experior Assessments, LLC announced that the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration has re-awarded Experior(R) a two-year contract for the administration of Vermont’s...
Feb 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation is the fast food of the insurance industry. Nobody notices it very much until there’s a case of indigestion, despite the important role it plays in the economy. As costs continue to...
Feb 9 2004 // A plan to transfer 4,100 health insurance policies from Mutual of Omaha to Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont fell apart over questions of creating a subsidiary for the deal. Mutual of Omaha, which is getting out of...
Feb 9 2004 // Howard Dean may be grabbing the headlines, but Vermont’s captive insurance division is also doing quite well. It licensed an all-time record of 77 new captives in 2003, eclipsing last year’s record of 70 and...
Feb 6 2004 // A bill aimed at reportedly making badly needed changes to the workers’ compensation laws in Vermont has some very positive components, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Jan 21 2004 // Vermont’s Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA) Commissioner John Crowley issued a bulletin aimed at helping investors cope with the “increasingly complex and...
Oct 9 2003 // The Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) will hold an informative seminar on the benefits of captive insurance in San Antonio, Texas on Oct. 15, 2003 at the Westin La Cantera Resort. The seminar, entitled...
Sep 8 2003 // “Client, insure thyself!”Well it hasn’t quite reached that point yet, but the hard market has caused insurance buyers to commence an unprecedented search for affordable risk management solutions. Pushed...
Jun 17 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers noted that the 2003 Vermont legislative session wrapped up with little impact on the property/casualty insurance industry. The bulletin indicated that the legislative...
Jun 6 2003 // The American Insurance Association praised Vermont’s Legislature as it ended its current session for enacting an AIA-supported bill (S.25) to improve the safety of children in motor vehicles, and for its rejection of...
Jun 2 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers hailed Vermont Governor Jim Douglas’ (R) for signing into law HB 148, a version of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), which supports use of electronic records and...
May 23 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has released a bulletin urging Vermont Governor Jim Douglas (R) to sign into law a bill, passed by the State’s legislature, that will “greatly enhance insurers’ and...
May 9 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin stating that two Vermont bills that include provisions dealing with underinsured motorist coverage (UIM) “would be detrimental to auto insurers...
Apr 29 2003 // David Isenberg, the President of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York and President-elect T.J. Derella recently met with the New York State Insurance Department’s Senior Deputy Superintendent Peter Molinaro...
Apr 8 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers fears that a bill dealing with uninsured motorist coverage, passed by the Vermont Senate, could drive auto insurance prices higher in an already hard market.“Because...
Mar 11 2003 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners recognized the State of Vermont for successfully implementing all 12 technology-based initiatives in the Uniform Regulation Through Technology (URTT) program.The award...
Feb 5 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has endorsed two recent decisions by the Vermont Supreme Court that settled two insurance-related cases dealing with underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, by ruling that...
Jan 27 2003 // Due to the restricted coverages available in the market today, risk retention groups (RRGs) have experienced a significant amount of rapid growth over the past year. At a time when the industry is facing what is perhaps...
Dec 17 2002 // AIA Names Northeast VP, Lauds New Vt. CommissionerThe American Insurance Association (AIA) announced the appointment of a new assistant vice president, northeast region and welcomed the commissioner-designate of the the...