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Eleven AIG Companies Fined by Okla. Insurance Department
Mar 22 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced the largest fine of an insurance company in state history – $400,000 – against eleven AIG insurance companies doing business in the state. The companies...
Four Indicted in Texas on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 22 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four people were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County, Texas, on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. The company’s...
Two Arrested in Calif. for Staging Auto Accidents
Mar 7 2007 // Two suspects in California have been arrested in connection with staging automobile accidents and filing insurance claims for medical treatment they falsely claimed to have received in other countries, according to the...
Two Giant Glass Repair Firms Become One as Belron Acquires Safelite
Mar 5 2007 // Belron S.A., a large vehicle glass repair and replacement company, has completed its acquisition of another, Safelite Group Inc. According to Dan Wilson, president and chief executive officer.f the new joint organization...
Four Buildings Evacuated after San Francisco Landslide
Feb 28 2007 // A landslide of rocks and boulders tumbled down onto a San Francisco apartment building early Tuesday, sending 150 residents of the North Beach district into the streets. No injuries were reported, but at least four...
Five casual ways to pump up CSR sales
Feb 26 2007 // CSR selling doesn’t happen by decree. Principals can’t simply declare a sales quota and expect instant results. It is a long-term process getting customer service representatives involved in selling. Management...
Five casual ways to pump up CSR sales
Feb 25 2007 // CSR selling doesn’t happen by decree. Principals can’t simply declare a sales quota and expect instant results. It is a long-term process getting customer service representatives involved in selling. Management...
One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
Four goals for owners
Feb 12 2007 // Take out your business plan when reading this article and see if it needs to be revised and updated. If you don’t have a business plan, then this article should be used as the basis of the plan for the year. The one...
Four goals for owners
Feb 11 2007 // Take out your business plan when reading this article and see if it needs to be revised and updated. If you don’t have a business plan, then this article should be used as the basis of the plan for the year. The one...
One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators
Feb 11 2007 // At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their state insurance markets, as well as industry-wide...
Three Calif. Senior Citizens Sentenced in Financial Scam
Feb 8 2007 // Three senior citizens who preyed on the elderly by selling them financial products that were unregistered and unqualified for sale in California have been sentenced, according to the California Department of Insurance. All...
Four Arrested in N.C., One Wanted; All Accused of Major Insurance Fraud Ring
Feb 7 2007 // North Carolina Officials arrested four Anson and Richmond County residents accused in an extensive insurance fraud ring. The accused were investigated for allegedly filing fraudulent insurance claims and altering police...
Six Arrested in Calif. Insurance Fraud Scheme, 16 Others Wanted
Jan 8 2007 // Eighty-six people have been arrested on suspicion of bilking insurance companies out of more than $500,000, one of California’s largest ever insurance fraud cases, the district attorney’s office said. The 86...
Two N.C. Insurance Investigators Honored for Anti-Fraud Work
Dec 15 2006 // Two investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Chet Effler of Marion, N.C., and Martha Ann Ford of Chester, S.C., have been honored for their work on insurance fraud cases in 2006. Effler received an...
Seven Indicted for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
Three Ill. Counties Named Again in 2006 Judicial Hellhole Ranking
Dec 14 2006 // The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) released its annual Judicial Hellholes report, shining a bright spotlight on “America’s worst jurisdictions in which to face a lawsuit.” Three counties in...
Two More Plead Guilty in New Orleans Schools Insurance Kickbacks Case
Dec 11 2006 // Two insurance brokers who previously denied paying kickbacks to a key school official in exchange for lucrative insurance contracts have pleaded guilty to extortion charges in federal court as part of a plea deal with the...
Five keys to captive success
Dec 10 2006 // Whether you’re talking about road contractors or hospitals or agents and brokers, every organization has in-house expertise. And you want to use it. You need to bring members together to share best practices. The...
Two-County Sweep in N.C. Yields 10 Arrests for Insurance Fraud
Dec 5 2006 // In what officials describe as the largest auto insurance fraud ring in North Carolina history, 10 residents of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties are accused of defrauding insurance companies of an estimated $1...
