Wyoming News

Malpractice Insurance Pushing Wyoming Doctors Out of State

Nearly one-third of Wyoming doctors are planning to leave the state eventually and many of those say the cost of malpractice insurance is a factor, a new state report shows. The Wyoming Healthcare Commission this week released a report giving …

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In its ranking, Oregon …

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In its ranking, Oregon …

St. Paul Agency Joins Bank of the West Subsidiary

Bank of the West recently announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, BW Insurance Agency, Inc., (BWIA) has acquired St. Paul Agency, Inc., a full service insurance agency involved in insurance, risk management and asset protection, based in St. Paul, Minn. The St. …

Senate Will Make Last-Ditch Effort for Disaster Dollars

Farm-state senators will make a last-ditch effort this week to pass agricultural disaster assistance, though it’s unlikely it will become law before the new year. North Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both Democrats, pressured Republican leadership to take …

Regulators Install Management Committee for Interstate Compact

The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission created by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners installed its Management Committee and elected a Committee chair, vice-chair and treasurer recently during the Commission’s inaugural annual meeting in Lansdowne, Va. The Commission elected Pennsylvania …

Cold, Wet Weather Hurts Sugar-Beet Harvest

Weather unusually cold and wet has damaged the eastern Montana sugar-beet crop, some of it left frozen in the ground because harvest equipment cannot cross the wet fields. Heavy rain since mid-September and four consecutive nights of temperatures in the …

Colorado Casualty Adds Real-Time Functions for Agents

Colorado Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group based in Denver, has added real-time policy inquiry, endorsement quoting, and electronic endorsement submissions to the roster of functions available through Personal IQ, the company’s web-based technology for personal lines. The real-time …

Appointed, Elected Commissioner Jobs on the Line

The jobs of more than half of state insurance commissioners around the country could be on the line on this 2006 midterm Election Day. The futures of as many as 30 of the nation’s insurance commissioners are tied to the …

New Markets

Privacy and Security Coverage Enhancements Nuts & Bolts: Underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC have a set of security and privacy coverage enhancements that can be endorsed onto any of the Euclid Managers’ Internet and tech professional liability …