Latest Drugs Headlines
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NYSID Announces Arrest of Schenectady Father for Using Son’s Health Insurance Benefits
Mar 19 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Jonathan S. Isdell, Sr., 46, of Schenectady, New York, for fraudulently using his son’s medical benefits identification...
An Exact Science: Insuring Biotech Takes Know-How
Sep 30 2002 // As far as commercial property and casualty coverages are concerned, it goes without saying that individual companies require specific types of policies to most effectively address risks inherent to their industries. The...
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment
Sep 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Union General is offering a program for facilities specializing in care and treatment of drug and alcohol abusers, including for profit and nonprofit centers and halfway houses. Coverage is available for...
Lloyd’s Kiln Covers Drug Company Patents
Apr 1 2002 // London’s Financial Times carries a report that Lloyd’s underwriter Kiln has written policies insuring an unidentified “multinational pharmaceutical group” against challenges to some of its...
Insurance Co. Says There’s no Cover in Mo. Pharmacist Case
Mar 22 2002 // A Kansas City, Mo. pharmacist accused of diluting chemotherapy drugs was sued by his insurance company, which is seeking exemption from liability in the more than 200 lawsuits filed by cancer patients and their relatives...
What’s Risk Got to do With It’
Jan 28 2002 // I recently watched the movie, “Traffic,” with my teenaged daughter. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, it is a powerful film about how the drug trade reaches into all of our lives, even those that are seemingly the...
Two Okla. Auto Bills Fail to Pass
May 30 2001 // Two bills that would have increased the cost of auto insurance in Oklahoma died in the state House/Senate conference committees as the 2001 legislature adjourned on May 25. The National Association of Independent Insurers...
CDI Investigation Lands Claimant Jail Time
Apr 27 2001 // A California Department of Insurance investigation resulted in the conviction of a Los Angeles woman to two years in state prison and fines of $160,000 for her part in an insurance fraud scam. Kathleen C. Ridgway, 37, was...
Refining Workers’ Comp
Apr 2 2001 // In 1989 the Legislature jettisoned the generations-old Texas hybrid system and substituted a new workers’ comp system. In the mid-19th century it dawned on European social designers that the cost of goods sold should...
Pennsylvania Pioneers Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitative Program For Agents
Jan 3 2001 // Pennsylvania recently became the first state in the nation to use a rehabilitative program for chemically dependent insurance agents and brokers called “Agents Helping Agents”. Pennsylvania Insurance...
Office Run by a Mis-Manager
Sep 18 2000 // Kathleen C. Ridgway, a Beverly Hills office manager, was arrested at work on Aug. 7 on one felony count of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. The L.A. County District Attorney’s office is prosecuting the...
President Clinton Honors IIAA Past Pres. at Conference
May 15 2000 // A typically charismatic speech by President Bill Clinton was the highlight of an already stellar 24th Annual National Legislative Conference for the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA). The President appeared at...
Clinton Speaks at IIAA Legislative Conference
May 4 2000 // President Bill Clinton told independent insurance agents from around the nation that a tax credit for long-term care, Medicare prescription drug coverage and improvements in health care that will result in Americans living...
