Latest Nebraska Headlines
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Neb. DOI Issues C&D Order to Richard A. Brooks and Brooks & Associates Ltd.
Jul 21 2005 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance issued a Cease and Desist order against Richard A. Brooks and Brooks & Associates Ltd., 1338 Park Avenue, River Forest, Ill., instructing Brooks to immediately cease transacting...
Allocation
Jul 18 2005 // Wooddale Builders vs. Maryland Casualty Co. (Minnestoa Court of Appeals, May 3, 2005) -Ruling: Appropriate end date for time-on-the-risk allocation is date of remediation.House builder brought action against commercial...
Case Law Watch
Jul 18 2005 // Wooddale Builders vs. Maryland Casualty Co. (Minnestoa Court of Appeals, May 3, 2005) —Ruling: Appropriate end date for time-on-the-risk allocation is date of remediation.House builder brought action against...
FEMA, NEMA Aid Neb. Residents Following May Storms
Jul 17 2005 // Sixty days after severe storms and flooding struck central Nebraska, many counties and towns continue to work restoring their damaged roads, water drainage systems and infrastructure. Thirty eligible applicants for federal...
Regulators Hit PCI Csiszar’s Pitches Out of the Park
May 9 2005 // State insurance department representatives responded to fast balls, curves and sliders thrown at them by Ernie Csiszar, president and chief executive officer of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, during...
PCI’s Csiszar, Panelists Discuss Sarbanes-Oxley, TRIA Concerns
Apr 19 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association’s Joint Marketing and Underwriting Seminar, held April 17 in St. Petersburg, Fla., had a baseball motif, “Hitting a Grand Slam with Marketing and Underwriting Tools...
PIA National Names Neb. Agent as Tops
Apr 15 2005 // Carter “Cap” Peterson of Wayne, Nebraska was named 2005 Professional Agent of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents during an awards luncheon on April 9, in Arlington,...
Nebraska Plan Offers Online Rating For Private Passenger Applicants
Feb 23 2005 // The Nebraska Automobile Insurance Assigned Risk Plan offers an online rating interface for certain private passenger risks applying for auto insurance coverage. The interface is a feature of an electronic application...
Neb. DOI Says 30,000 Covered by Possibly Fraudulent Health Plans
Feb 7 2005 // Citing a report from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Insurance stated that an estimated 30,145 Nebraskans were found to be covered by self-insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements. As a...
Neb. DOI Says 30,000 Covered by Possibly Fraudulent Health Plans
Jan 21 2005 // Citing a report from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Insurance stated that an estimated 30,145 Nebraskans were found to be covered by self-insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements. As a...
PCI Puts Support Behind Neb. Personal Lines Rate and Form Modernization
Oct 27 2004 // Momentum is building for Nebraska to enact personal lines rate and form modernization in 2005, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). During 2004 the state legislature did not have time...
Insuring the Cornhusker State
Sep 20 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated Nebraska’s population at 1.7 million. About 87 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 24 percent had earned a bachelor’s...
The Guaranty Fund System: A Vital Safety Net
Jul 22 2004 // Suzanne Sahakian Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and...
The Guaranty Fund System: A Vital Safety Net
Jul 19 2004 // Property/casualty guaranty funds were created by state statutes beginning in the late 1960s to protect the public against financial losses to policyholders and claimants as a result of property and casualty insurance...
Nebraska’s Chance to Modernize Still Alive and Kicking
Jun 7 2004 // While the legislative effort did not advance this session, conditions in Nebraska are excellent for regulatory modernization. Commissioner Wagner has traditionally been supportive of streamlining and modernization...
Former Neb. Lt. Gov. To Serve on Fiserv Board
Sep 19 2003 // Kim M. Robak, Vice President for External Affairs and Corporation Secretary at the University of Nebraska, has been named to serve on the Board of Directors of Fiserv, Inc. Robak, 47, joined the University of Nebraska in...
NAII Seeks to Alter Proposed Neb. Ethics Rule
Jun 24 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) is seeking to ensure that a Nebraska Supreme Court proposed rule regarding the unauthorized practice of law does not adversely affect the insurance industry. The...
NCOIL Insurance Scoring Model Adopted by Nebraska Legislature
Apr 16 2003 // The Nebraska legislature has joined North Dakota in adopting the National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) model act for credit-based insurance scoring. Kansas also has passed legislation that follows...
Several Midwestern States Revisit Insurance Scoring
Mar 6 2003 // The issue of credit-based insurance scoring is being revisited in many Midwestern states that considered legislation or regulations on the subject in previous years, according to the National Association of Independent...
NCOIL Insurance Scoring Model Advances in Nebraska
Feb 21 2003 // The Nebraska Banking, Commerce and Insurance Committee has approved an insurance scoring bill favored by insurers while voting down a bill that would have banned the use of credit information by insurers. Legislative Bill...
