The Oregon Insurance Division announced it will stop issuing printed licenses for insurance producers. Beginning July 1, there will no longer be printed initial, renewal, or replacement licenses. All license information for active licensees will be available on OID’s Web …
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the 2007 storm season in Kansas so far has accumulated $230 million in losses of insured property and crops during the month of May 2007. “We experienced a terrible loss in Greensburg from the …
An 11-year-old girl whose family says she became ill after eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella received a kidney donated by her father on Monday (June 18). Krystina Brugh and her father, John Brugh Jr., were both doing well after …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $360,349 dividend for the Social Services Agencies of Texas (SSA) purchasing group. The dividend is based largely on the group’s growth and favorable loss ratio. “Our members are nonprofit organizations that run pretty lean,” …
Texas officials have again delayed the launch of a database meant to crack down on uninsured drivers, saying people could be ticketed or arrested because of inaccurate information. Lawmakers in 2005 ordered the Texas Department of Insurance and three other …
Gov. Mike Easley met with Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to discuss North Carolina’s emergency preparedness for the hurricane season that began June 1. This is the second year in a row Easley and Chertoff …
Gov. Phil Bredesen’s request for federal farm assistance for all 95 counties in Tennessee received approval today from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bredesen made the request April 11 after record low temperatures severely damaged crops across the state and …
The Vatican on Tuesday issued a set of “Ten Commandments” for drivers, telling motorists not to kill, not to drink and drive, and to help fellow motorists in the case of accidents. A document from the Vatican’s office for migrants …
The annual Fourth of July fireworks display in Roswell, Ga., will proceed as planned – barring a return of extremely dry conditions – the fire chief told the city council Monday night. “It’s raining cats and dogs right now,” city …
This week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that blocks investors from suing Wall Street investment banks under antitrust laws could save Wall Street firms a bundle by limiting investors to smaller recoveries. In a case dating back to the dot-com bubble, …