The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission recently announced updates for mileage reimbursements for claimants, compensation rates for injured employees and forms for child support obligations. Claimant mileage rate increases The mileage reimbursement rate for claimants traveling to and from medical providers …
A federal grand jury in Shreveport, La., has indicted 17 people for allegedly staging car accidents in order to get money from insurance companies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Aug. 15. The indictment was made public following the execution of …
An insurance company legally denied coverage to a business seeking to renew its policy in the days before Hurricane Isabel struck North Carolina, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 15. HPB Enterprises, the owner of a waterfront community on …
Florida homeowners on Aug. 15 flocked to a new state program that offers free hurricane-preparedness inspections and grants to help cover the cost of improvements. More than 3,500 people applied online within hours after the state began accepting applications. The …
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline recently announced he had reached a settlement with pharmaceutical giant Glaxo SmithKline to resolve allegations that it improperly inflated the “average wholesale price” paid by the state’s Medicaid program for certain of its prescription drugs. …
The Fargo City Commission has approved a $2 million settlement with North Dakota State University for damage from a storm that flooded the Fargodome in 2000. School officials said the campus suffered heavy damage when rainfall runoff got into the …
Chicago-based Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, has completed the acquisition of the life and disability business of HM Life Insurance Company (formerly Highmark Life Insurance Company). “Fort …
A man who sold bogus medical malpractice insurance to Fargo’s Red River Women’s Clinic and other abortion providers has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering, North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman said. William A. Ledee III, 63, agreed to …
A new research report from the TowerGroup finds that “without a concerted effort by all parties to support a holistic solution to catastrophe management, the dire predictions of insolvency in the insurance sector and general economic upheaval across the United …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A” (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of the >New York-based QBE Re Group – U.S. and its subsidiaries. The rating action applies to Philadelphia-based QBE …