Calling the defrauding of seniors a “big business” and a major problem in Iowa, Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson on Thursday announced a new initiative designed to educate older Iowans about investment fraud. The program, Seniors Against Investment Fraud, or SAIF, …
West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance provider has a lofty goal: to audit every one of West Virginia’s 38,000 employers this year. That would require an unprecedented 200 audits a day, and may be a little optimistic, said Greg Burton, president …
A physician, a medical clinic owner and others are accused of a multimillion dollar auto insurance scam involving staged crashes and perpetrators who sought unnecessary treatment at facilities that were part of the scheme, said state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer …
Florida officials authorized a reactivation of a reinsurance pool for commercial lines insurance to help businesses obtain insurance. The Commercial Joint Underwriting Association (JUA is intended to provide property insurance coverage to Florida’s business owners who have been unable to …
The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has begun enrolling employers who want to participate in a new way of reporting claims for workplace injuries and occupational diseases. Injured workers in Washington currently file all injury and disease claims …
The Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon Office of State Fire Marshall, in partnership with Allstate and State Farm, is hosting Insurance Wildfire Summit workshops. Sessions will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on September 19 in Bend, …
Columbus, Ohio-based Safelite Group Inc., a provider of property and casualty claims management solutions and auto glass repair and replacement products and services, announced several rulings relating to the summary judgment motions of both Safelite Group and Diamond Triumph Auto …
The St. Paul Travelers Companies Inc. has entered into a $77 million settlement with the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Illinois, as well as with the New York State Department of Insurance, resolving issues relating to those states’ …
Conseco, Inc. has reached a tentative settlement in the class action litigation case referred to as “In Re Conseco Life Insurance Company Cost of Insurance Litigation.” The settlement, which involved policies sold by insurance companies that were subsequently acquired by …
A fire-hazard rating agency says that if the city doesn’t improve its building codes and conduct more inspections, property owners in Pine Bluff, Ark., may be paying higher insurance rates. Insurance Services Office Inc. of Chicago, which rates municipal building …