March 6, 2006
A Worcester, N.Y., farm owner has been arraigned on charges in connection with a fire that killed 24 cows. Peter Mravlja was charged with arson, insurance fraud and witness tampering following a nearly three-year investigation by local authorities and the …
March 6, 2006
Vermont workers’ compensation rates are moderating for the third year in a row, Commissioner John P. Crowley of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration announced. Crowley approved a loss cost increase of 1.4 percent for the …
March 6, 2006
Education and occupation matter when it comes to what customers of New Jersey’s fourth-largest auto insurer pay, according to a published report. Geico considers professional and college-educated customers less of a risk than blue-collar workers, so those drivers pay less, …
March 6, 2006
Miscellaneous Medical Malpractice Nuts & Bolts: NAS Insurance Services’ miscellaneous medical malpractice insurance program has several new features including deductibles under $2,500. The coverage can now be underwritten with greater rate flexibility and is available combined with GL and professional …
March 6, 2006
An antiques dealer, an auto mechanic and even a couple of insurance agents are among the dishonored on 2005’s Top Ten Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud cases list, released by the Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority. This year’s list shows that the people …
March 6, 2006
A month into the Houston fraud and conspiracy trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, their defense teams were hammering away at a consistent theme: Complex financial structures and deals that prosecutors allege hid …
March 6, 2006
Dozens of federally insured medical providers have been blocked from helping the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina because their liability protection doesn’t apply outside their own states. Doctors and nurses from community health centers across the country who encountered …
March 6, 2006
Most insurance agencies and companies, probably most businesses, think they know what their customers think when in reality they don’t. They have stopped looking and listening to their outside world. “Although most companies start out with a strong focus on …
March 6, 2006
Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, has named James A. Wiseman as vice president and chief actuary. “We know that the high, attainable goals we have set for ourselves …
March 6, 2006
Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP announced that Ben H. Moore Insurance Agency has joined the Alpha Omega Insurance Group LP, a Dean & Draper Company. Ben H. Moore started the Houston agency in 1939, and his son, Bill Moore, …