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Kemper Introduces New High Value Homeowner Product in Texas

Kemper announced it has introduced INFINITY, an enhanced homeowners program designed for homes in Texas valued from $400,000 to $1.5 million. According to the company’s announcement, INFINITY features three primary advantages for Texas homeowners: improved security, premier service and additional …

Texas AG Says Health Spa Chain Exposed Customer Records to ID Theft

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott cited Minnesota-based Lifetime Fitness and subsidiaries LTF Club Management Company L.L.C. and LTF Club Operations Company Inc., for systematically exposing its customers to identity theft, the AG’s office announced. According to court documents filed by …

More Americans seek auto coverage via Internet

Yet study shows access to agents still valued when purchasing insurance Americans’ automobile insurance habits are changing, with more adults willing to purchase policies over the phone, Internet or via mail, according to a recent study by Vertis Communications. But …

It Figures

10 The maximum number of hours in a row truckers will be able to drive. A recent federal court recently invalidated a rule by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that would have extended the maximum hours to 11. Judge …

Mass. Enacts ID Protection Law with Security Freeze Provision

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed legislation that requires businesses and government agencies to promptly notify consumers when private information such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers have been lost or stolen. The law also allows residents to place …

10 The maximum number of hours in a row truckers will be able to drive. A recent federal court recently invalidated a rule by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that would have extended the maximum hours to 11. Judge …

More Americans seek auto coverage via Internet

Americans automobile insurance habits are changing, with more adults willing to purchase policies over the phone, Internet or via mail, according to a recent study by Vertis Communications. But that doesn’t mean insurance sales by independent agents are tapering off. …

Calif. Prosecutors to Fight ID Theft, Privacy Violations

In an effort to bolster personal privacy and intellectual property rights, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that District Attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego will begin receiving funds for the fight against identity theft violations. …

Business Moves

Willis, InsuranceNoodle Willis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, has acquired Chicago-based InsuranceNoodle, an Internet distributor of U.S. small business insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. InsuranceNoodle offers Willis a proprietary Web-based technology platform for online application …

Declarations

Declarations Tandem response “It makes no sense for us not to plan all of our responses in tandem.” — Alabama Gov. Bob Riley as he and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vowed to cooperate in the event of a storm, just …