October 8, 2007
A federal court in Boston sentenced a man to more than five years in prison for his role in a multistate insurance fraud scheme in which prosecutors said he and his wife intentionally ate glass fragments and collected more than …
October 8, 2007
The breach of personal data stored in business files and computers is a serious risk for any company that controls the information. Customers and employees may become the victims of identity theft and fraud. With so many incidents of data …
October 8, 2007
The business owner policy (BOP) of today is not the BOP of yesterday, industry experts agree. When the first BOP coverage was introduced in the late 1970s, it was mostly utilized by direct writers whose niche in the insurance market …
September 27, 2007
Two insurance producers, also board of directors for the Latin American Agents Association (LAAA), have filed a class action lawsuit against Choicepoint Inc. alleging, among other things, that the company routinely sells customer data despite assuring that privacy will be …
September 24, 2007
Everett man gets three years for arson A man who admitted torching a friend’s grocery store in Everett, Wash., in a plan by the two to collect insurance has been sentenced to three years in prison. Naveed Khan, 25, of …
September 24, 2007
The TJX Companies has agreed to a settlement of class action lawsuits filed after a massive security breach involving customer data. A statement on the company Web site says the proposed settlement includes three years of credit monitoring along with …
September 24, 2007
A computer backup tape stolen from a state worker’s car in June contained the personal information of more than 500 county workers from Minnesota. Insurance Journal reported on the theft earlier this year. It was learned that information from out-of-state …
September 24, 2007
There has been very little in the history of the world that has revolutionized society so greatly and as quickly as the Internet. The Internet has allowed anyone and everyone with access to a computer to obtain information from anywhere …
September 24, 2007
Everett man gets three years for arson A man who admitted torching a friend’s grocery store in Everett, Wash., in a plan by the two to collect insurance has been sentenced to three years in prison. Naveed Khan, 25, of …
September 24, 2007
There has been very little in the history of the world that has revolutionized society so greatly and as quickly as the Internet. The Internet has allowed anyone and everyone with access to a computer to obtain information from anywhere …