Latest Arizona Headlines
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Houston General Introduces Personal Lines Package in Arizona
Dec 12 2006 // Houston General Insurance Exchange has upgraded its OneChoice package offering for personal insurance consumers in Arizona – and renamed it OneChoice CustomPac. The program is designed to allow consumers to continue...
Two Honda Sedan Models Lead List of Most Stolen Vehicles in Arizona
Nov 8 2006 // Two Honda sedan models lead the latest list of vehicles most often stolen in Arizona. According to the latest annual study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the 1991 Honda Accord and 1995 Honda Civic were ranked as...
Countrywide launches auto product in Arizona
Oct 9 2006 // Countrywide Financial Corp. has announced that Countrywide Insurance Group’s auto insurance product is now available to consumers in Arizona. Quotes can be obtained by calling a licensed auto insurance agent at...
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...