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Credit score debate heats up

The Federal Trade Commission’s long awaited study, “Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Impacts on Consumers of Automobile Insurance” was released recently and as expected, heated up the debate on insurers’ use of credit scores in automobile underwriting and rating. Insurers overall felt …

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Report: N.D. has the best roads, Kansas ranks 3rd Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual …

People and Places

Dallas-based wholesaler Heartland Marketing Group named Jim Bishop as president. He will be responsible for Heartland’s wholesale and excess and surplus insurance operations. Bishop joins the operation from The Hartford where he was most recently the select manager for their …

People

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on Sept. 4. PCI represents more than 1,000 …

Credit score debate heats up

The Federal Trade Commission’s long awaited study, “Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Impacts on Consumers of Automobile Insurance” was recently released and as expected, heated up the debate on insurers’ use of credit scores in automobile underwriting and rating. Insurers overall felt …

Editor’s Note: Credit score debate heats up

The Federal Trade Commission’s long awaited study, “Credit-Based Insurance Scores: Impacts on Consumers of Automobile Insurance” was recently released and as expected, heated up the debate on insurers’ use of credit scores in automobile underwriting and rating. Insurers overall felt …

People and Places

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on Sept. 4. PCI represents more than 1,000 …

Ranking State Road

1. North Dakota 2. South Carolina 3. Kansas 4. New Mexico 5. Montana 6. Georgia 7. Wyoming 8. Oregon 9. Nevada 10. Idaho 11. South Dakota 12. Kentucky 13. Minnesota 14. Indiana 15. Texas 16. Ohio 17. Missouri 18. Virginia …

Report: N.D. has the best roads, Kansas ranks 3rd

Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual highway performance report. “Gridlock isn’t going away,” said David …

Report: Inadequate Safety Controls Led to Fatal N.C. Plant Explosion

Inadequate safety controls for chemical reaction hazards led to an explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant that killed one worker and injured 14 others last year in Morganton, federal safety investigators said Tuesday. “The sorts of safety practices and …