Insurance departments across the Southeast are notifying industry representatives of updated procedures and expectations in response to the coronavirus outbreak, while also acknowledging the potential for a serious impact on state insurance operations, agents and policyholders. In some cases, regulators …
Sandy Praeger, Commissioner of Insurance in Kansas, has named Steve O’Neil as Consumer Assistance Division director and LeAnn Crow and Elizabeth Fike as supervisors in the same area. Crow will serve as the division’s property/casualty supervisor, and Fike as the …
A Senate panel has passed a bill that would prohibit the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s anti-fraud investigators from using police vehicles. The Senate General Government Committee voted unanimously for the bill by Seminole Republican Sen. Harry Coates that prohibits the department …
The Oklahoma Insurance Department spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-package vehicles that agency officials say were needed as part of its expanded focus on criminal insurance fraud. But the purchases have raised eyebrows among …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers in receiving more than $5.3 million in insurance payments from consumer complaints in 2011. LDI received 13,208 consumer inquiries and 3,453 official consumer …
A former state lawmaker has landed a $150,000 a year job as the No. 2 official at the state Department of Insurance. Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon tells The Advocate that former state Rep. Noble Ellington — a veteran legislator …
Tynesia Dorsey has been named chief administrative officer at the Ohio Insurance Department. Dorsey’s duties include overseeing the operations of the fiscal, human resources, information and technology, consumer affairs divisions, and the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP). Dorsey …
The Texas Senate has voted to renew the state Department of Insurance and give it stronger enforcement penalties when companies lose challenges to their rates. Lawmakers are considering competing bills to extend the life of the agency that regulates the …
