January 14, 2005
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged Florida lawmakers meeting today in Tallahassee to allow the reforms made to hurricane insurance deductibles during the special legislative session to have time to work before implementing additional major changes. William Stander, …
January 14, 2005
Joint investigations by the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in the felony arrests of four suspects for multiple counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. The ongoing investigations began more than …
January 14, 2005
An Illinois appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld the circuit court’s dismissal of the City of Chicago’s lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead pigment used in paint. The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District held that companies that have not …
January 14, 2005
Dallas-based Cunningham Lindsey U.S. Inc. (CLUS) announced the following staff additions and appointments. • Kimberly Stanton has joined CLUS as a regional account executive. Stanton will be based in Chicago and will be focusing on the Midwest insurance and self …
January 14, 2005
Employees at Connecticut’s Millstone Power Station extinguished a small fire inside the Unit 2 turbine building Friday morning. Damage estimates were not available. The fire reportedly posed no danger to employees or the public, and there was no release of …
January 14, 2005
A new California political group to fight for the rights of voters injured on the job, VotersInjuredatWork.org., announced this week that VotersInjuredatWork.org will kick off its campaign to organize injured workers with a series of news conferences on Jan. 19 …
January 14, 2005
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Director David Sanko is reminding Pennsylvanians to consider ways to prevent losses from flooding and to be prepared to act when severe storm warnings are issued that have the potential to cause flash flooding. “With heavy …
January 14, 2005
Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson, D-Lexington, offered the following statement regarding reform of the state’s workers’ compensation system, which is expected in the legislative session that begins Feb. 7: “We’ve been following the efforts of Governor Henry’s bi-partisan …
January 14, 2005
ISO’s Property Claim Services (PCS) unit has expanded its services to include loss estimates for potential catastrophic terrorism losses. PCS this week announced it will assign catastrophe serial numbers to potential terrorism events likely to have caused at least $5 …
January 14, 2005
Donna L. Wallace was charged this week in Ottawa County District Court with one felony count of Medicaid fraud after an investigation by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Wallace, 60, is accused of forging signatures on …