January 29, 2006
A plan to redistribute residual market auto insurance policies among insurance carriers and agents in Massachusetts has been approved by state officials. The final plan for Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers will require that about 133 exclusive representative producers, who are agents …
January 29, 2006
Thousands of credit card numbers were stolen from a state government Web site that allows residents to register their cars and buy state permits, authorities said Friday. The private company that runs RI.gov told the state that 4,118 credit card …
January 29, 2006
American International Group, Inc. has named Rodney O. Martin, Jr. as chief operating officer of its worldwide life insurance business. Martin will remain chairman, president and chief executive officer of AIG American General Life Companies and AIG executive vice president …
January 29, 2006
AON welcomed welcome Don Horner to its staff effective Jan. 19, as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice Leader. The company said Horner will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health & Welfare clients, expansion …
January 29, 2006
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry and former Gov. Frank Keating have been listed as defense witnesses for Carroll Fisher, the former state insurance commissioner, the Oklahoman and the Associated Press reported. Both have been critical of Fisher, who quit in 2004. …
January 29, 2006
Oklahoma State Rep. Bill Case, R-Midwest City, announced he will run for insurance commissioner. Case, 52, said he had the experience as a businessman and insurance agent that is needed at the agency. Democrat Kim Holland of Tulsa was appointed …
January 29, 2006
At least 65 persons lost their lives when the roof of an exposition building in Katowice, Poland collapsed Saturday afternoon, Jan. 28, possibly under the weight of accumulated heavy snow. Another 140 people, who were attending a pigeon fanciers show …
January 27, 2006
Edwin Gladwin “Eddie” Enns, founder and owner of the Enns Agency, an independent agency in Fort Pierce, Fla. died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. Enns, who was 72, ran the agency for 35 years and at the same time held numerous …
January 27, 2006
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Mutual Insurance Companies Association of Indiana are working together to address a mistake in Indiana’s 2002 tax code revision which erroneously raised taxes paid by farm mutual insurers from 1.2 percent …
January 27, 2006
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses a record $56.8 billion for 2005 insured property losses from 24 catastrophic events — more than twice the prior record set in 2004, when insurers paid $27.3 billion in catastrophe …