April 2, 2001
Progressive Corp. customers can now make insurance payments, find local agents and get information about Progressive products by connecting to progressive.com using web-enabled cellular phones. Progressive.com became the first auto insurance web site available on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. …
March 8, 2001
InsuranceNoodle announced yesterday that it is licensed to sell insurance in California, bringing its total to 34 states and nine of the 10 largest states in which the online company is doing business. Licensing in Texas-the only large state remaining-is …
March 5, 2001
State National Insurance Company has been granted permission by Maine authorities to write fire, allied lines, commercial multi-peril, inland marine, other liability, products liability, auto liability, auto physical damage and glass. Following last year’s licensing in Connecticut, Maine becomes the …
February 14, 2001
Popular novelist Stephen King filed a lawsuit in a Maine Superior Court against his insurer, Commercial Union York Insurance Co. The suit alleges that the insurance company failed to provide full coverage for injuries King suffered as the result of …
February 12, 2001
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners announced today that Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana and Ohio will join the previously named states of Maine, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas for the limited launch of the Coordinated Advertising Rate and Form …
February 12, 2001
NAPSLO Legislative Report: Surplus Lines Issues Covered at NAIC Meeting With the end of the year 2000 state legislative sessions and the U.S. Congress winding down its post-election lame duck session, legislative activity affecting the insurance industry has virtually ground …
February 6, 2001
Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Co. has acquired a Maine agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HRH purchased The Dunlap Corp. based in Auburn, Maine, which operates four offices in Maine and New Hampshire. Founded in 1869, Dunlap employs …
February 5, 2001
In an effort to assist insurers and departments of insurance, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has undertaken the daunting task of compiling a directory of how departments of insurance across the country deal with, and investigate, fraud. Greg Sacco, …
January 8, 2001
Now that the presidential election saga has come to a close and a new governor and lieutenant governor are in place, the new guard at the Texas capitol has begun making decisions and appointments for the upcoming 77th legislative session. …