Latest Alaska Headlines
All the headlines from our Alaska Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ark. Workers’ Comp Costs Decline
Jun 10 2002 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens reported a 4.5 percent loss decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation voluntary insurance market. Workers’ comp costs have declined for eight straight...
Credit-based Score Legislation Dies as Alaska Legislature Adjourns
May 23 2002 // Skirmishing over credit-based insurance scores occupied much of the attention of the 2002 Alaska legislative session that ended last week with legislators failing to come to any agreement on the issue. The Legislature then...
Alaska Committees Consider Two Very Different Scoring Bills
Apr 24 2002 // Two very different bills restricting insurers’ use of credit-based insurance scores are pending in Alaska House and Senate committees with no clear indication as to which is more likely to move. National Association...
Alaska Committee Approves Bill Prohibiting Use of Credit-Based Scores
Mar 5 2002 // An Alaska Senate committee has approved a bill prohibiting insurers from using credit-based insurance scores last week after amending the bill to make it apply to all insurance. Senate Bill 320 previously applied only to...
AK Gets Bill Banning Insurers’ Use of Credit-Based Scores
Feb 14 2002 // Alaska has joined the growing number of states considering legislation to prohibit insurers from using credit-based insurance scores. “This legislation would result in higher insurance premiums for most consumers in...
Med-Mal Cover Available in Ark.
Jan 28 2002 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens recently assured Arkansas doctors that medical malpractice insurance is still available in the state. Pickens made the announcement in response to the decision by St. Paul...
Calif. Won’t Adopt Terror Exclusions
Jan 8 2002 // According to a Jan. 7 Los Angeles Times article, California has refused to allow insurers to adopt terrorism exclusion language, a move which has already been by approximately 20 other states in the wake of Sept. 11. The...
NAII Defends Insurers’ Use of Credit-Based Insurance Scores
Dec 6 2001 // According to National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) Northwest Regional Manager Michael Harrold, insurance companies’ use of credit information clearly benefits most consumers, in terms of both price and...
8 INSURERS FEEL FIRE RISKS
Sep 10 2001 // In seven western fire-prone states, eight large property and casualty insurers are exposed to 74.5 percent of the home insurance risk, according to a recent analysis by Weiss Ratings Inc. States ranked by acres burned from...
Weiss Says 8 Insurers Are Exposed to 74.5% of Homeowners Risk in Western Fire-Prone States
Aug 28 2001 // In seven western fire-prone states, just eight large property and casualty insurers are exposed to 74.5 percent of the home insurance risk, according to a recent analysis by Weiss Ratings Inc., a provider of independent...
InsuranceNoodle Receives Alaska License
Jan 5 2001 // InsuranceNoodle recently received its license to sell insurance in Alaska, said Rick Madock, InsuranceNoodle chairman and co-founder. The online insurance e-broker for small businesses is now licensed to provide its...
HIH Sells Renewal Rights to Argonaut, Alaska National
Dec 11 2000 // In the latest action in the volatile workers’ compensation arena, Argonaut Insurance Company announced it will acquire the renewal rights and other tangible assets associated with the workers’ comp business of...
Alaska Airlines Jet Crashes Into Pacific Ocean Updated
Feb 1 2000 // An Alaska Airlines MD-83 jetliner that originated in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and was headed for San Francisco and Seattle, crashed in the Pacific Ocean at 4:36 p.m. PST Monday. On Tuesday morning, search crews said hope...
