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Three Auto Insurance Bills Get to Colo. House Floor
Feb 6 2002 // Three bills designed to help clarify and simplify the auto insurance process in Colorado, including one that would reduce the number of required options in the no-fault law, have passed the House. National Association of...
Four Driven to Fake Collision Sentenced
Jan 11 2002 // Terry Thomas, 31, a resident of Downey, Calif., was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 4, to five years in state prison for his conviction on one count of insurance fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit...
One Man’s Escape From the Destruction of the World Trade Center
Dec 17 2001 // A. Quentin “Skip” Orza II, vice president, RLI EPG, gives his first-hand account of the events of Sept. 11 Although RLI lost its branch office in the World Trade Center as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist...
One Man’s Escape from the Destruction of the World Trade Center: RLI V.P. Orza gives his firs-hand a
Dec 10 2001 // Although RLI lost its branch office in the World Trade Center as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the company was fortunate to have all its New York branch employees escape safely. And while the Executive...
Four Companies Join Trusted Choice Branding Initiative as Founding Partners
Oct 29 2001 // Four leading insurance carriers have signed on as founding sponsors of Trusted Choice, the new consumer marketing brand created by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) and independent agency insurance...
Five Fresno Residents Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Aug 31 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch, Fraud Division, served arrest warrants on five local Fresno residents last week. The arrests concluded a six-month...
Two More Named Storms Forecast for August
Aug 20 2001 // As the Atlantic hurricane season’s second named storm has faded into memory, hurricane forecaster William Gray predicts two more named storms in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico during the month of August. One...
Seven New SUVs Sustain Big Damage in
Aug 2 2001 // According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, automakers are marketing new midsize SUV models for 2001 and 2002, but most of these vehicles aren’t being equipped with bumpers that resist damage in the...
Three Modesto Residents Arrested for Staged Auto Insurance Fraud
Jul 25 2001 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested three Modesto residents on charges of insurance fraud. Johnny B. Slefo, 42, Wylet G. Slefo, 42...
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...
Seven Arrests Made for Insurance Fraud
May 29 2001 // Seven New York individuals were arrested for their alleged participation in a variety of insurance scams which amounted to more than $100,000 in fraudulent claims. Superintendent Gregory Serio along with Nassau County...
Three Big Carriers Join Forces to Launch Web-Based Agency
Apr 16 2001 // American International Group Inc., Kemper Insurance Companies and Prudential Insurance Company of America recently announced plans of a joint venture called Fusura, a web-based insurance agency that will allow consumers to...
Two Calif.-Domiciled Workers’ Comp Companies Conserved by CDI
Apr 9 2001 // The toll from the ongoing adverse streak for the California workers’ compensation market just keeps rising. The California Department of Insur-ance (CDI) recently conserved two more insurance companies domiciled in...
Three Big Carriers Join Forces to Launch Web-Based Agency
Apr 9 2001 // American International Group Inc. (AIG), Kemper Insurance Companies and Prudential Insurance Company of America recently announced plans of a joint venture called Fusura, an innovative web-based insurance agency that will...
One Apple Didn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Apr 9 2001 // California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low ordered the revocation of the licenses and licensing rights, effective April 13, of Jack Hagop Printsian and his son Ara Kaspar Printsian. The two Santa Clarita brokers were...
Four New Insurers to Enter Hawaii’s Workers’ Comp Market
Apr 4 2001 // Wayne Metcalf, the Hawaii Insurance Commissioner, announced in March that the Insurance Division has authorized four new insurers to write workers’ compensation insurance in Hawaii. The authorization for General...
Three Amigos Face Fraud
Mar 12 2001 // Following a two-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch, investigators arrested three Sacramento residents-John Michael Hermoso, 40; William Gregory Hoshall, 39;...
Three Frontier Execs Resign
Mar 6 2001 // Frontier Insurance Group’s Patrick Kenny, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Douglas Moat, executive vice president and Richard Seyffarth, executive vice president and chief investment officer have...
Two Tree Hill Launches Website for Claims Professionals
Feb 12 2001 // Ventura, Calif.-based Two Tree Hill Inc. has launched a new website, www.ClaimRep.com , for attorneys, risk managers, claims adjusters, and any other insurance professional involved in claims resolution. ClaimRep.com...
Two Plead Guilty To Defrauding Metlife Subsidiary
Jan 9 2001 // Two former Metlife subsidiary executives have confessed to swindling the company of $2.4 million. Howard Dale Kartchner, 55, and Jeffrey K. McLean, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. to...
