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Calls Link Agents with Dubious Medicare Sales Practices in Ark.
Jan 25 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman has expressed concern upon hearing reports of questionable practices by insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans in the southwest area of the state. Calls...
New Ark. Attorney General to Target Identity Theft
Jan 23 2007 // Newly elected Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced a proposal aimed at preventing identity theft will be presented as part of his legislative package for the 2007 legislative session. “Essentially what...
Ark. Court Calls on Legislature to Look at Charitable Immunity
Jan 22 2007 // A woman lost her appeal challenging a verdict in favor of a not-for-profit hospital, but the state Supreme Court said in deciding the case Jan. 18, 2007, that a legal doctrine protecting charities for more than a century...
Ark. Injured Trucker Wins Court Order for Workers’ Comp Rehearing
Jan 19 2007 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals says the state Workers’ Compensation Commission did such a poor job of considering an injured trucker’s claim that it was “impossible” for the court to properly review...
Online Producer Appointments, Cancellations Now Available in Ark.
Jan 18 2007 // The Arkansas Insurance Department announced the availability of LEO, an online producer/agency appointment feature offered by service provider Aithent. This new online service will allow for direct appointments and/or...
Ark. Bankers Group Names Travelers Preferred Provider
Jan 17 2007 // St. Paul, Minn.-based Travelers today announced that the Arkansas Community Bankers Assn. has chosen the company as its preferred provider for bank insurance products. The Arkansas Community Bankers Association represents...
Ark. Work Comp Commission Gets New Labor Representative
Jan 16 2007 // Philip Alan Hood on Jan.9, 2007, was named by Gov. Mike Beebe as the labor representative for the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, AWCC announced. He was appointed by the governor to a six-year term after...
Ark. Work Comp Commission Adds Electronic Notice for Claim Contacts
Jan 12 2007 // Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Form announced that its form A-110, the paper document used for decades to notify insurer representatives of new cases at the AWCC, has been replaced by electronic...
Ark. Lawsuit Accuses Propane Supplier of Negligence in Blast
Jan 10 2007 // The wife of a man severely burned in an explosion three years ago at Detco Industries Inc. in Conway, Ark., has sued the plant’s supplier of propane gas, saying the supplier didn’t properly inspect Detco or...
Ark. Town put on Federal Notice Over Flood-Plain Management
Jan 9 2007 // The city of Malvern, Ark., could face costly consequences if it doesn’t address concerns the Federal Emergency Management Agency has with how the city manages flood-plain property. FEMA has put the city on notice and...
Ark. starts insurance plan for low-income workers
Jan 8 2007 // Enrollment began Dec. 20, 2006, in Arkansas for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to 80,000 low-income workers. The Associated Press reported that health officials hope the...
Ark. starts insurance plan for low-income workers
Jan 7 2007 // Enrollment began Dec. 20, 2006, in Arkansas for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to 80,000 low-income workers. The Associated Press reported that health officials hope the...
Ark. Joins Court Filing on Credit Scoring
Dec 28 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced the Arkansas Insurance Department has joined with twelve other states filing a brief supporting a case brought by consumers against the insurance...
Alaska Firm Convicted in Worker’s Death Pardoned by Former Governor
Dec 26 2006 // A company convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of one of its workers, killed in an avalanche in 1999, was pardoned by former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski just days before leaving office. Gary Stone, a...
Commissioners, compensation rules, earthquakes made for shaky ground
Dec 25 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – West
Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Ark. Starts Insurance Program for Low-Income Workers
Dec 22 2006 // Low-income workers without health insurance are the targets of a new program announced by Arkansas officials. Enrollment began Dec. 20 for a program partly paid by Medicaid dollars that will eventually offer insurance to...
Alaska Man Guilty of Reinstating Policy Before Reporting Accident
Dec 14 2006 // An Alaska man has pled guilty to theft in the second degree, a class B felony, stemming from a fraudulent insurance claim, according to the state Division of Insurance Office of Special Prosecution and Appeals. Earlier...
