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ACE pays $4.5 million to settle bid-rigging claims with states ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to officials from eight states and the District of Columbia. Florida’s Chief Financial …

ACE pays $4.5 million to states

ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to officials from eight states and the District of Columbia. Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said ACE Group Holdings Inc. and its …

Transitions … from judge to regulator, from regulated to competition

Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes has taken on the minefield of private passenger auto insurance, overseeing a transition from a highly-regulated rating system to one under which insurance companies are to have some flexibility in the prices they charge, a …

State settlement amounts

The breakdown of the amounts ACE will pay individual states is as follows: D.C.: $103,703.71 Florida: $1,574,315.24 Hawaii: $74,939.23 Maryland: $251,630.51 Massachusetts: $680,951.76 Michigan: $251,958.21 Oregon: $189,475.04 Texas: $1,334,928.03 West Virginia: $38,098.27

Figures

$5 million The amount by which a federal judge in Connecticut has cut the $12 million jury award that found General Electric discriminated against and illegally fired a chief engineer. Fifty-three-year-old Hemant Mody of Avon, Conn., who died in April, …

My New Markets

Agents E&O Nuts & Bolts: Market Scout is offering a broad coverage form from three different “A” rated carriers. Each insurer has agreed to provide up to 25 percent discounts for agencies that have 40 percent of their professional staff …

News Currents

N.Y. department prevails in liquidation bureau audit New York state’s highest court has ruled that the state auditor does not have the authority to audit an obscure division of a state agency managing $3.3 billion. The New York Court of …

ACE pays $4.5 million to states

ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to state officials. The monies will be divided among eight states and the District of Columbia. Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said …

Small market share insurers file 2.5% decrease

10 Mass. caps auto hikes at 10% Because the shooter was in an uninsured car, says N.J. court 12 Driving the transition An interview with Mass. Commissioner Burnes N1 Survey reports drop in new lawsuits Actions filed against U.S. firms …

Editor’s Note: In agents’ hands

More members of Congress hail from backgrounds as state legislators than any other occupation. This means that the exposure of these former state-turned-federal lawmakers to insurance issues typically involved auto insurance, according to the powerful U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., …