Connecticut’s Medicare-based fee schedule for workers’ compensation involving hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services went into effect April 1. Previously, there were no facility fee schedules in Connecticut and employers were liable for the hospitals’ prevailing …
Authorities announced that a Hagerstown, Maryland, woman pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Washington County to one count of felony insurance fraud having a value of $300 or more. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced on April 7 that …
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade announced that insurance adjusters and appraisers can now renew their Connecticut licenses online using the department’s paperless system operated through the National Insurance Producers Registry (NIPR). “This will offer greater convenience to the thousands of …
A judge has ordered members of a Pennsylvania family whose mansion had three fires in five years to stand trial in a $20 million insurance fraud case. Political fundraiser and hostess Claire Risoldi and her family are accused of living …
Insurance software provider Vertafore has partnered with Microsoft to give insurance agents access to the capabilities of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) platform. The partnership is designed to improve customer-facing interactions and give agents data that can be …
Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has appointed Michael Berry of Cedar Park and Evelyn Miller of Baytown, and reappointed Jennifer Hoff of Cedar Park to serve on the Surplus Lines Stamping Office Board of Directors for terms to expire …
National upstream oil and gas energy MGA J.H. Blades & Co. Inc., along with the Swett & Crawford Dallas Energy team and the recently-acquired Burke Daniels Inc., have joined forces with Wild Well Control Inc. to launch an early intervention …
A central Indiana movie theater where patrons were bitten by bedbugs has been closed so that exterminators can kill the small, blood-sucking insects. AMC Entertainment Inc. says in a statement that an exterminator has treated the Indianapolis theater auditorium where …
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, has launched a new west coast habitational program available in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The program is exclusive to Atlas and is open to commercial apartment buildings, …
An outbreak of a food-borne illness linked to some ice cream products made by Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries has grown to include three people in Texas who became ill, according to federal health authorities. Carol Crawford, a spokeswoman for the …
