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Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Feb 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five businesses in one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operations in the history of Monterey County. Arrested were: 40-year-old David Alan Long, owner of...
Two Fla. Residents Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Feb 13 2004 // Two Florida men are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges after insurance fraud investigators with the Department of Financial Services conducted investigations of numerous construction sites in and around...
Eleven Untapped Sources of New Business Leads
Feb 9 2004 // An east coast agent surprised me, in the recent past, by revealing that he had run out of insurance leads. This amazing declaration came from someone living and doing business near the largest U.S. city of all, New York....
Three Years Later, Industry Puts Toxic Mold into Perspective
Feb 9 2004 // Whatever became of mold? Only three years ago, newspaper headlines, fueled by overzealous trial attorneys and misguided scientific information, trumpeted mold as “the next asbestos.” Since then, however, mold...
One-on-One with Arizona State Fund President Don Smith
Jan 26 2004 // In recent months, we’ve heard nothing but praise for Arizona’s workers’ compensation system, especially when compared to the trouble California system. Wondering what all the hoopla was all about, I...
Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Jan 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five business in sting concluding what has turned out to be one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operation in the history of Monterey County. Arrested...
Six More Lawsuits to be filed tomorrow by Holocaust Survivors
Jan 16 2004 // Six Holocaust survivor families, have filed lawsuits to recover life insurance benefits due to them arising out of the death of their heirs during the Holocaust. The lawsuits claim that Generali, a large Italian insurer,...
NINE NEW FRAUDSTERS JOIN “HALL OF SHAME”:
Jan 12 2004 // Nine of the nation’s top convicted insurance swindlers of 2003 have been elected to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Fame by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (www.InsuranceFraud.org). The East Coast scored well with...
Two Firefighters Plead Guilty to Torching Firehouse
Jan 8 2004 // Two former volunteer firemen have pleaded in a federal court in Pittsburgh to charges that on two occasions they deliberately set fire to their firehouse in neighboring Isabella in order to collect around $500,000 in...
Two More Uninsured Ill. Docs to Move
Dec 1 2003 // Two Belleville, Ill., doctors whose medical liability policies were non-renewed by their respective providers will move out of state, according to the Belleville News-Democrat. The two doctors, Mike Leavell and Mark...
Seven Ways to Improve Your People Intelligence
Nov 17 2003 // he greatest weakness of salespeople today is that they’re product-centered, not people-oriented and they are sadly unaware of this shortcoming. Salespeople tend to spend most of their time on a call extolling the...
Five New Agents Join SAN in Q3
Oct 30 2003 // The Satellite Agency Network, or SAN Group, headquartered in Portsmouth, N.H., announced that its rapid growth continued during the third quarter of 2003, as it added five new Independent Agency Members, bringing the 2003...
Two Ala. Residents Die in Fire; Reportedly No Smoke Detector in House
Oct 29 2003 // Two Jasper, Alabama residents died in a house fire Monday night. Walker County 911 received a call reporting the fire at 11:38 p.m. at which time Jasper Fire Department was dispatched to the scene. Guynell Kennedy Bray,...
Four Missing as Fabian Slams Bermuda-Strongest Hurricane in 50 Years
Sep 8 2003 // Hurricane Fabian, a monster of a storm, packing winds of 120 mph (192 kph), slammed full force into Bermuda on Friday night, uprooting trees, downing power lines and causing extensive structural damage. Four people were...
One Year After Sarbanes-Oxley, a Fresh Look at D&O Underwriting
Aug 18 2003 // The anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has opened the door of dialogue to the benefits of sustainable, effective corporate governance. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) shift in focus...
One Year After Sarbanes-Oxley, a Fresh Look at D&O Underwriting
Aug 18 2003 // The anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has opened the door of dialogue to the benefits of sustainable, effective corporate governance. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) shift in...
Fourteen Arrested in Fraud Sweep
Jul 7 2003 // The CDI and the Los Angeles County Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force arrested 14 people who are suspected of defrauding three insurance carriers in a criminal conspiracy. The suspects allegedly sold insurance policies to...
Ten Ways to Attract and Retain Great Employees
Jul 7 2003 // Today, more and more organizations are changing the way they view and pay their employees. The move is away from the traditional “cost-of-doing-business” concept. Successful businesses are developing creative...
Two Ill. Producers’ Licenses Revoked
Jul 3 2003 // Illinois Director of Insurance J. Anthony Clark has denied the insurance producer license application of Philip A. Fair of Chicago effective June 16. Fair was previously licensed to sell life, accident and health, and fire...
Ten Ways to Attract and Retain Great Employees
Jun 9 2003 // Today, more and more organizations are changing the way they view and pay their employees. The move is away from the traditional “cost-of-doing-business” concept. Successful businesses are developing creative...
