Latest Department of Insurance Headlines
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Missouri Helps Collect $5M for Consumers in First Half 2012
Jul 27 2012 // Missouri insurance regulators report their efforts are helping consumers to receive more than $5 million in additional insurance claims payments in first half of 2012. Consumers will receive an additional $5.1 million in...
Brewer Names Acting Director for Arizona Department of Insurance
Jun 29 2012 // Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has named Germaine Marks the Acting Director of the Arizona Department of Insurance. Marks is being appointed to serve in this capacity due to the pending retirement of outgoing Insurance Director...
Missouri Issues Warning About Agent Barred from Insurance Business
Jun 1 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance says it has received reports that an agent previously barred from the insurance business has been selling policies illegally. The department revoked the insurance license of former...
Delaware Regulators Recovered $1.3M for Policyholders in 2012 Q1
May 30 2012 // Delaware’s Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart said her department recovered $1,331,831 for the state’s policyholders during 2012 first quarter. Commissioner Stewart announced the first-quarter’s...
Indiana Finds Assurant Subsidiaries Overcharged Small Businesses
May 29 2012 // Three subsidiaries of Assurant Health will provide refunds to small group health insurance policyholders that Indiana insurance regulators say the companies overcharged. Indiana Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson...
California Legislator Calls for Hearing on Intervenor Fees
May 17 2012 // State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, has become the latest person to question intervenor fees, calling on the California Department of Insurance to review a state program that allows consumer groups to intervene in...
Missouri Regulators: Joplin Insurance Claims Deadline Approaching
May 14 2012 // The Missouri Department of Insurance is sending an urgent message to Joplin residents with incomplete insurance claims related to the May 22, 2011, EF-5 tornado. The department says many homeowners insurance policies...
California Department of Insurance Wants to be ‘Liked’
Apr 26 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and the California Department of Insurance really want you to like them. CDI now has a Facebook page. The page was launched on Thursday, and had about a dozen “Likes” as soon...
Report: Risk for Corruption High in South Central States
Mar 20 2012 // Although none of the 50 U.S. state governments were found to be exemplary, three out of four of the South Central states received very lackluster rankings in a report evaluating state governments on integrity and the...
California Department of Insurance Takes Action Over Claims Handling
Mar 6 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has served an order to show cause, a statement of charges and a notice of penalty against the New Hampshire Insurance Co. and its authorized agent for claims processing, York Risk...
California Department of Insurance Files Action Against Zurich
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance initiated an administrative enforcement action against two insurers – Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois – for using a type of...
Louisiana Department of Insurance Recovers $5.3M in 2011
Feb 14 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers in receiving more than $5.3 million in insurance payments from consumer complaints...
Website Attacks Consumer Watchdog
Feb 10 2012 // A website attacking a consumer group that often does battle with the insurance industry was launched on Friday, setting off more sparks in a roiling battle between proponents of two competing measures that Californians may...
Ohio Announces $11.6M in Insurance Savings, Recoveries in 2011
Feb 3 2012 // Insurance regulators saved or recovered $11.6 million for Ohioans in 2011, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced. The department said it received 5,336 consumer complaints, the majority of which dealt with the denial...
Boron to Lead Illinois Department of Insurance
Jan 30 2012 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has named a new top state insurance regulator. Andrew Boron has been appointed director of the Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI), the governor’s office announced. The department has been...
Health Insurers in Arizona Face Federal Scrutiny
Jan 18 2012 // Health insurance companies in Arizona are facing scrutiny from Washington as federal authorities have taken over reviews of rate increases of 10 percent or more from the state. The Arizona Republic reported that federal...
California Department of Insurance: $54 Million Recovered in 2011
Jan 10 2012 // The California Department of Insurance recovered more than $54 million for consumers through consumer complaint investigations and market conduct examinations of insurance companies in 2011, California Insurance...
Barton, Nelson Promoted at Missouri Department of Insurance
Jan 10 2012 // Two veteran insurance regulators at the Missouri Department of Insurance have been appointed to division director positions. Matt Barton was picked to lead the Consumer Affairs Division and Angela Nelson is now director of...
Insolvent Missouri Insurers to Be Managed by Farm Bureau
Jan 9 2012 // A Barton County, Mo., judge in December 2011 approved a proposal to allow Missouri Farm Bureau to assume operations of three small insurance companies that became insolvent after paying claims from the May 22 Joplin...
3 Small Insurers Placed into Receivership in Missouri
Dec 8 2011 // A Barton County, Mo., judge has placed a group of three small insurance companies into receivership, after claims from the Joplin tornado left the group insolvent, the Missouri Department of Insurance reported. Missouri...
