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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has selected San Francisco’s Edgewood Center for Children and Families as the official charity for its 2008 Summer National Meeting. This selection is part of the NAIC’s year-long charitable initiative to support organizations …
State insurance regulators want to centralize the filing and storage of their annual market conduct reports on insurance companies. The regulators are reviewing a proposal that would allow insurers to make one filing, as well as provide regulators the ability …
Disaster victims might one day watch their homes and communities be rebuilt from the cool comfort of a front porch. The porches are a feature of prefabricated cottages designed for Hurricane Katrina’s victims as an alternative to travel trailers issued …
A tornado that leveled half a town in northeast Iowa and killed seven people was the strongest to hit the state in 32 years, the National Weather Service said on May 27. The twister, three-quarters of a mile wide with …
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached a settlement with an automobile credit insurance company that unlawfully withheld insurance premiums from than 12,000 Texans who paid off their vehicle loans early. The Office of the Attorney General said it has now …
Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on May 28 (Wednesday) tapped the dean of the Ohio State University law school to serve temporarily as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal forced out the previous attorney general. Strickland says Nancy Hardin …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) of ‘B ‘(Fair) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “bb” of the Republic Western Insurance Group, which consists of Republic Western Insurance Company of Phoenix, Ariz., and its wholly …
A study of workplace accidents in Kansas shows that Wednesday is the most dangerous day to be at work. A 2006 survey by the Kansas Department of Labor found that 2,050 of workplace injuries that required time off happened on …
Kansas City, Mo.-based Westrope established a new office in Brandon, Florida. Westrope Insurance Managers of Florida is a multi-line wholesaler providing binding authority programs and small to medium sized brokerage placements throughout Florida and surrounding states. Alan Goldfarb, Paul Burger …
