Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith joined forces behind a proposal aimed at helping uninsured people get health coverage and those with insurance avoid financial ruin from a catastrophic illness. Smith and Wyden say they will propose a series …
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced a total award of $500,000 in consumer protection grants to four District Attorneys’ Offices for the Life and Annuity Consumer Protection Program (LACPP). The LACPP implements AB 2316, which became effective in January 2005. …
A coalition of insurance companies, community colleges and workforce development specialists have started a statewide insurance education program, called the California Insurance Careers Program, aimed at preparing community college students for work in the insurance field. Solano Community College is …
Former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner John Wooley will be the luncheon speaker at the 14th annual Mid-Year Property & Casualty Insurance Symposium in Austin, Texas, on July 13. Wooley served as commissioner during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The symposium is …
A dozen fires in Benton County in less than a week has investigators wondering if all were accidents and, if not, who set them. Investigators are not yet willing to conclude definitely that arson was involved, according to Deputy Doug …
Insured homeowners in Eastern and Southern Coastal Texas have, on average, taken roughly 50 percent of the steps to prepare their homes and property to recover from a major hurricane, according to a new Hurricane Readiness Index. Homeowners on the …
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and seven affiliates, alleging that the company and its affiliates participated in a bid-rigging and business-steering scheme. The civil complaint, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, …
New Hampshire state troopers might have writer’s cramp after a July Fourth holiday weekend in which they stopped 7,000 vehicles, wrote more than 6,000 tickets and made 38 drunken driving arrests. Extra holiday highway patrols ran from Friday, June 30, …
Lloyd’s new 360 Risk Project is dedicated to examining issues that affect the insurance industry, and its first conference took on today’s most far-reaching and important issue – the debate over climate change, global warming and greenhouse gasses. In a …
Wis. Governor Jim Doyle created a panel Wednesday to study how more people can get health insurance and how businesses can cut their health care costs. Doyle will direct the 18-member Healthy Wisconsin Council to figure out how to cut …