Latest Arizona Headlines

All the headlines from our Arizona Topic Page, ordered by recency.

PSIC Launches Homeowners Market in Arizona

Oct 4 2006 // Property and casualty insurer Pacific Specialty Insurance Co., Menlo Park, Calif., is launching a new homeowners program in Arizona. Homeowners (HO-3), renters (HO-4) and unit-owners (HO-6) policies will now be offered,...

Arizona State Expands Alcohol Rules for Student Clubs, Requiring Insurance

Oct 4 2006 // Keggers hosted by clubs at Arizona State University may never be the same. Under rule revisions by the Student Organization Resource Center and other school officials, alcohol at parties hosted by ASU clubs must be served...

Web site Helps Arizona Consumers Get Smart about Insurance

Sep 22 2006 // The Arizona Department of Insurance has introduced an online “university,” called Insure U, desiged for insurance consumers who want to learn more about insurance issues. Organized by life stages, the site...

Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen

Sep 4 2006 // California received the dubious honor of most motorcycle thefts in the nation in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The Golden State recorded 9,110 thefts in 2005, compared with 9,213 in 2004. The...

Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen

Sep 4 2006 // California received the dubious honor of most motorcycle thefts in the nation in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The Golden State recorded 9,110 thefts in 2005, compared with 9,213 in 2004. The...

Arizona Working to Reduce Number of Uninsured

Aug 31 2006 // HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a provider of managed care industry intelligence, reports that the state of Arizona is responding to its population boom with new initiatives to reduce the number of uninsured. According to the...

Phoenix Man Sentenced for Defrauding Workman’s Comp Fund

Aug 25 2006 // A Phoenix man was sentenced Tuesday to three years of supervised probation after being convicted of defrauding the State Compensation Fund of Arizona (SCF), the state agency that provides workman’s compensation...

Unigard Insurance Awards 12 Scholarships

Aug 25 2006 // Bellevue, Wash.-based Unigard Insurance Group is awarding 12 outstanding students with renewable $1,000 scholarships for college. “The Unigard scholarship program was created to reward talented students,” said...

Arizona Puts the Heat on Insurers for Wildfire Protection

Aug 15 2006 // As wildfire season stretches across the Western states from June through September, Christina Urias, director of the Arizona Department of Insurance, has lit a fire under agents and insurers to work with their clients to...

Christina Urias

Aug 7 2006 // Wildfires, captives, credit scoring, and broker compensation and disclosure have been hot topics lately especially since wildfire season in particular extends through September. But the Arizona Department of Insurance...

Christina Urias, Arizona, Director of Insurance

Aug 7 2006 // Wildfires, captives, credit scoring, and broker compensation and disclosure have been hot topics lately — especially since wildfire season in particular extends through September. But the Arizona Department of...

Employers Insurance Group Expanding in Arizona, Texas

Jul 27 2006 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Insurance Group announced it is expanding its market for workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses throughout the states of Texas and Arizona. Insurance is being...

Anti-Abortion Student Group Sues Arizona State University

Jul 26 2006 // \Arizona State University has been sued by an anti-abortion student group which alleges the university discriminated against students trying to voice their opinions on the issue. ASU Students for Life filed the suit in...

New Markets

Jul 24 2006 // Homeowners in Arizona Nuts & Bolts: Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif. is offering homeowners coverage in Arizona. The program includes high risk properties, seasonal homes, brush areas,...

New Markets

Jul 24 2006 // Homeowners in Arizona Nuts & Bolts: Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif. is offering homeowners coverage in Arizona. The program includes high risk properties, seasonal homes, brush areas,...

New Markets

Jun 19 2006 // Outdoor Sporting Program Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance...

AnCap Insurance Writes Acuity Policy

Jun 16 2006 // ACUITY, which only recently began writing insurance in Arizona, has announced that the first agency in Arizona to write a policy with the company is AnCap Insurance, headquartered in Phoenix. AnCap used ACUITY’s...

Research Team to Study Genesis of Monsoon Storms

Jun 12 2006 // A team of researchers from Alabama and other states will train an array of instruments skyward in Arizona this summer for an unprecedented study of the genesis of monsoon storms. About 20 scientists will spend July and...

Arizona Vehicle Repair House Bill Dies in Committee

May 26 2006 // An Arizona House Bill that would have made it more difficult for insurers to provide consumers information about automobile and glass repair facilities has died in the Senate Rules Committee, according to Kelly Campbell,...

Abram Interstate offers Homeowners Insurance in Arizona

May 19 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering Homeowners coverage in Arizona. The program includes high risk properties, seasonal homes, brush areas, protection classes 1-10, older homes and...