About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies in the months ahead and enroll in alternatives that comply with the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care reform law. Kentucky Department of Insurance spokeswoman Ronda Sloan …
Recent news reports on the roll-out of reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program have focused on astronomical increases in rates faced by some home and business owners. This language from an ABC News report has been fairly common: New …
A Newark, N.J., police officer has admitted filing a false insurance claim after his vehicle was declared stolen and found torched. The Essex County prosecutor’s office says Johnathan R. Taylor pleaded guilty last Friday to insurance fraud. The 42-year-old Plainfield …
Devastating flooding from Superstorm Sandy has sparked growing interest in building berms and sand dunes for protection along the Connecticut coast, a swath of land with some of the nation’s priciest real estate where officials say obstacles include concerns about …
The number of collisions between deer and vehicles in Delaware is growing as state officials work to reduce the deer population. Citing statistics released recently by State Farm Insurance, The News Journal of Wilmington reports that Delaware drivers have a …
Daytona Beach, Fla.-based brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. announced that Cory T. Walker, who has been serving as senior vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer, will retire from the firm effective in March 2014. Brown & Brown also announced …
The state of Texas and Farmers Insurance want to settle decade-old claims of overcharging and underserving customers for $117.5 million, which would be one of the largest insurance settlements in state history but less than what some people wanted. A …
Mark Bates, from Pinnacle Insurance Group of Indiana in Crown Point, Ind., is the recipient of the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana’s 2013 Harry P. Cooper, Jr. Industry/Public Image Award. This award is presented in the name of Harry P. …
Oklahoma City-based INSURICA Insurance Management Network has hired David Winans as associate director of sales development in the firm’s Plano, Texas, office. A 21-year veteran of the insurance industry, Winans worked for a large Dallas insurance agency as a producer …
The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce will no longer provide a health insurance offering that 1,400 companies in the state have been using. The chamber said the companies are going to have to look elsewhere for coverage because its …
