Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors has approved a 2016 rate package that lowers rates for nearly half of Citizens’ personal lines policyholders while responding to increased water loss claims and continued inadequate rates for its remaining policyholders along …
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Seven people in California and Washington were arrested for allegedly conspiring to defraud eight insurance companies by submitting fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling more than $175,000. Detectives from the California Department of Insurance, assisted by Snohomish County Marshall’s Office and …
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Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that a Bibb County Grand Jury indicted Roswell chiropractor Victor L. Dees for 12 counts of insurance fraud based off an investigation conducted by the Department of Insurance’s Fraud division. Subsequent to the indictment, …
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Amendments proposed to the North Carolina Captive Insurance Act by the North Carolina Department of Insurance were met with unanimous support from the N.C. General Assembly and signed into law on June 19, 2015. Some of the amendments include: Clarifying …
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RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, announced it has named Sanjiv “Sunny” Sharma as senior vice president of cloud operations and information technology. Sharma joins from Rocket Fuel, a digital advertising firm, where he led the global engineering …
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Massachusetts is in the midst of an epidemic of deadly opioid abuse, according to a task force created by Gov. Charlie Baker that said Monday that drug addiction must be considered a medical disease. The 18-member group released a total …
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Moped owners could have a new item on their to-do lists in 2016 after getting their small-engine bikes registered with the state starting next month. The General Assembly gave its final approval Tuesday to legislation requiring mopeds have liability insurance …
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ACE Group announced the appointment of Dang Hoang Tung as its new country president for its general insurance operation in Vietnam, effective 29 June. Dang succeeds Christopher Twomey, who will return to the U.S. to take up a role in ACE’s Risk …
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Alabama State health officials are evaluating food that was served at a Montgomery day care after dozens of children were hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Merrill South of Baptist Health told local media that 38 children were being treated after …
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Peoria, Ill.-based specialty property/casualty insurer RLI Corp. has promoted two leaders within the claim department. Andrea Dean, assistant vice president, Claim counsel, has been promoted to vice president, Claim counsel. Dean will continue to be responsible for managing claim-related litigation …
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