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Arthur J. Gallagher Lacked Authority to Issue Additional Endorsements

May 26 2006 // A California court has found Arthur J. Gallagher had no authority to issue additional insured endorsements in a high-exposure construction defect litigation. The court ruled California law prohibits the issuance of...

Floridians Urged, Buy Tax-Free Supplies Now, Prepare for Hurricanes

May 24 2006 // Floridians are being urged to take advantage of the state’s “Hurricane Preparation Tax-Free Holiday,” which continues through June 1, and to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season by Tom Gallagher,...

Florida officials make 80 arrests, kick off ‘operation spring cleaning’

May 22 2006 // A special statewide operation targeting the arrest of 80 suspects from Miami to Pensacola, Fla. for their roles in insurance fraud schemes, dubbed “operation spring cleaning,” was launched in early May by the...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Y.S. Liedman & Assoc.

May 15 2006 // Miami, Fla.-based Y.S. Liedman & Assoc. has been acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of Itasca, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1973, Y. S. Liedman & Associates offers a...

William Gallagher Promotes Bradley, Kelleher and McMahon-Burke

May 11 2006 // Boston-based insurance broker William Gallagher Associates (WGA) announced the promotions of Mary McMahon-Burke, Brian Kelleher and Diane Bradley to vice president. McMahon-Burke has 25 years experience in the insurance...

Court Petitioned to Liquidate Poe Insurance Subsidiaries

May 10 2006 // The Leon County Circuit Court has been petitioned by Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, to order the Poe Financial Group’s subsidiaries, Southern Family, Atlantic Preferred and Florida Preferred, into liquidation....

Gallagher praises legislators’ action on rate relief

May 8 2006 // When the Flordia House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for the state’s homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a...

Consumers, many departments required to fight identity theft

May 8 2006 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part roundtable discussion on identity theft. Part 1 examined the scope and source of identity theft, and can be found on page 100 of Insurance Journal’s...

Gallagher praises legislators’ action on rate relief

May 8 2006 // When the Flordia House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for the state’s homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a...

Consumers, many departments required to fight identity theft

May 8 2006 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part roundtable discussion on identity theft. Part 1 examined the scope and source of identity theft and can be found on page 100 of Insurance Journal’s...

Fla. SB 1596, HB 561 Tighten Grip on Insurance Fraud

May 5 2006 // Passage by Florida’s Legislature of Senate Bill 1596 and House Bill 561, sponsored by Sen J.D. Alexander and Rep. David Rivera, Florida’s Legislature has tightened the grip on insurance fraud artists who steal...

Gallagher Begins Ground Game in GOP Gubernatorial Primary

May 1 2006 // Tom Gallagher approached Robb Mercado in Valrico, Fla. as he sat outside his house reading the newspaper Saturday and soon was involved in a long discussion about problems with the homeowners insurance market, education...

Gallagher Calls On Lawmakers to Make Insurance Reforms

May 1 2006 // As state lawmakers enter the home stretch of the 2006 legislative session, Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, renewed his call for immediate rate-relief, improved access to property coverage and reforms to help strengthen...

Fla. Court Orders Southern Family Into Rehabilitation; Citizens to Receive Policies July 1

Apr 26 2006 // Leon County (Florida) Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Company, one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group, into rehabilitation. The...

40 Arrests Kick Off Fla. ‘Operation Spring Cleaning,’ 40 More Targeted

Apr 26 2006 // A special statewide operation targeting the arrest of nearly 80 suspects from Miami to Pensacola, Fla. for their roles in insurance fraud schemes, dubbed “operation spring cleaning,” has been launched by the...

Fla. Consumer Services: Poe Officials Vow to Reduce Complaints

Apr 25 2006 // Florida’s Consumer Services representatives held a meeting April 21 with officials of the Tampa, Fla.-based Poe Insurance Group to discuss how to reduce the number of consumer complaints about the firm and its...

Gallagher Praises Legislators for Acting on Rate Relief

Apr 20 2006 // When the House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for Florida homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a victory, according...

$960M in Unanticipated Fla. Revenue Could Provide Rate Relief

Apr 17 2006 // The Florida General Revenue Estimating Conference has released new estimates stating Florida is expected to receive an additional $960 million in unanticipated revenue this year and the next. This estimate is in addition...

Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO

Apr 17 2006 // Arrests, along with laws passed in 2003 that created tougher penalties for workers’ compensation fraud, have pushed workers’ compensation premiums down for three consecutive years. Florida Fraud Fla. pursues...

•Doron M. Rotman, audit and RAS managing director for Information Risk Management; and

Apr 17 2006 // The participants included: •Scott B. Moritz, director of KPMG Forensic; •Hugh C. Kelly, principal of Financial Risk Management; •Joanna Taylor, senior associate for Financial Risk Management; •Linda...