Beginning next month, the State Fire Marshal’s Office in Florida will be able to track crime data from every fire and law enforcement department in the state and use the information to track down serial arsonists more quickly. “Between 2000 …
A New Jersey Assembly bill designed to protect abuse victims could actually do further harm by allowing abusive spouses to collect damages under a couple’s homeowners policy, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII). “No one would expect …
Copart, Inc. has opened its fifth facility in Southern California in the community of Rancho Cucamonga. With the addition of this 39-acre greenfield location Copart now has 101 locations in 40 states. Since Aug. 2002, Copart has added seven locations …
A trucking executive convicted in federal court for defrauding the town of Cicero, Ill., of $12 million-plus in an insurance scheme was sentenced to more than 12½ years in prison, according to the Chicago Tribune. John LaGiglio set up an …
The Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Health Care (CARH) praised President Bush’s call Tuesday evening in his State of the Union address for action by the 108th Congress to resolve the crisis in patient access to health care by promoting …
Commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global recently released its free 2003 Property Loss Prevention Resource Catalog that contains a number of loss prevention products to aid risk managers, facility and plant managers, and others responsible for property loss prevention. …
Standard & Poor’s commented on the spate of recent additions to reserves for asbestos claims by insurers, which raises anew the issue of reserve adequacy in the property/casualty industry. In its December 2002 outlook for U.S. commercial lines insurers, Standard …
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced Jan. 28 that it recently led a multi-agency law enforcement fraud investigation that resulted in the arrests of 15 individuals. The arrests by CDI’s Urban Auto Fraud Task Force are the result of …
Atlanta’s Crawford & Company announced that fourth quarter 2002 revenues before reimbursements totaled $173.7 million, down from $178.1 million in the comparable 2001 period. Operating earnings (earnings before amortization of goodwill, net corporate interest and taxes) in the 2002 fourth …
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) will co-sponsor the 2003 Insurance Fraud Management Conference at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore March 30-April 2. The conference will look at effective insurance fraud-management strategies, innovative fraud-deterrence …