Idaho News

Indemnity Excess & Surplus Offers ID Protection

Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency based in Beaverton, Oregon is helping its retail agents protect their clients with coverage designed to address most of the exposures associated with identity theft. Corporate Identity Theft Protection, offered by IES and written by …

Study Ranks States on Workers’ Comp Premiums, Alaska Highest

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums. The study, based on rates that were in effect Jan. 1, 2006, ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia …

Regulators Install Management Committee for Interstate Compact

The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners installed its Management Committee and elected a Committee chair, vice-chair and treasurer recently during the Commission’s inaugural annual meeting in Lansdowne, Va. The Commission elected Pennsylvania …

Idaho Resident Sentenced for Insurance Fraud

A Pocatello, Idaho, man received a one to seven year prison sentence for insurance fraud, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. Joshua K. Smith, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud and was sentenced in Sixth District Court in …

Builders & Tradesmen’s Offers Online Artisan Contractor GL Program

Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Service, Inc. has recently entered into an agreement with an “A” X rated carrier providing an exclusive national program for its online artisan contractor general liability program. The program is available for approximately 50 classes of …

Political Furor Arises Over Proposed SW Idaho Flood Map

Pending expansion of maps describing potential flooding in southwestern Idaho towns could cost residents and business owners millions in additional insurance, officials trying to boost the region’s economy say. A new survey of areas of Nampa and Caldwell where they’re …

Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulators

The insurance commissioner posts in Alaska and Idaho are likely to change, following November’s mid-term elections. In Idaho, U.S. Rep Butch Otter, R, defeated opponent, newspaper publisher Jerry Brady, in the race for governor of the state, as expected. When …

People and Places

Greg Thompson, president and CEO of THOMCO, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers. Thompson joined THOMCO in 1979, after two years in New York with Marsh and McLennan. Since …

10 Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulators

New governors likely means new appointees 10 Colorado election could affect key insurance issues “Ethics in government” amendment could have “chilling impact” 11 Oregon insurance division to sponsor five bills Division to tackle insurance product approvals in 2007 Legislature 12 …

People

Greg Thompson, president and CEO of THOMCO, is the new president of the Target Markets Program Administrators Association, a national organization serving program managers. Thompson joined THOMCO in 1979, after two years in New York with Marsh and McLennan. Since …