Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Jermaine Ayala, a police officer employed by the Prince Georges County Police Department. The indictment follows a joint investigation conducted by the Insurance Fraud …
New Jersey Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Passaic County woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for her role in an automobile “give up” scam. According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden-Brown, Monique S. Everett, 25, of Paterson, …
Florida-based Universal Insurance Holdings Inc., a provider of property and casualty insurance, announced that its Board of Directors appointed Sean Downes to the position of chief operating officer and senior vice president of the company, and the company and Downes …
Flooding from Hurricane Ivan’s rain and storm surges prompted more than a billion dollars in claims, making it the costliest hurricane of 2004, U.S. officials said. Ivan’s damage also made it the third most costly natural disaster in U.S. history, …
Oregon-based McFall General Agency recently moved its Gig Harbor, Washington office. The new address is: 6525 Wagner Way, Gig Harbor, Wash., 98335. The phone numbers are (253) 857-1050 and (866) 499-5714 or fax at (253) 857-1054 or (866) 536-4760. McFall …
Citing concern that insurance companies are using the 2004 hurricanes to unfairly raise rates, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has called for an independent review of a rate increase on homeowners being sought by State Farm of Florida, the …
Marleen Francis has joined Washington-based Baldwin Resource Group in Bellevue as client services manager and carrier liaison. Baldwin Resource Group specializes in risk management, insurance and business consulting. Previously, Francis worked as Excess & Surplus Lines/Large Construction manager for The …
Harleysville Group Inc. has appointed Robert G. Whitlock Jr. as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. He will assume senior management responsibility for Harleysville’s commercial lines and personal lines underwriting operations, along with its reinsurance organization. The company also …
Reversing a summary judgment by a district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently decided that The Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation, based in New Orleans, is entitled to recover the entire amount of long-term embezzlement losses discovered …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Texas Green Industry Workers’ Compensation Purchasing Group (TGI) has earned a purchasing group dividend of more than $72,000. TGI provides a competitive option for workers’ compensation coverage for every qualifying member of the …
