November 30, 2006
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 …
November 27, 2006
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 …
November 27, 2006
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 …
November 22, 2006
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 …
November 21, 2006
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 …
November 20, 2006
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 …
November 20, 2006
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 …
November 20, 2006
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 …
November 19, 2006
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 …
November 19, 2006
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 …