Archive for March 2016

Wasington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler took enforcement action and issued fines totaling $17,675 last month against insurance companies and producers who he says violated state insurance regulations. Here’s the list of fines and what Kreidler says warranted them: Insurance companies … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Two California bills to ease regulation of Uber and other ridesharing companies have been bottled up for nearly a year in a committee chaired by a lawmaker whose brothers own a San Diego taxi company. But state Sen. Ben Hueso … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will give the green light for driverless cars to be tested on U.K. motorways, helping to make the technology available to consumers by the end of the decade. The government also aims to remove … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A federal jury has awarded two couples nearly $4.25 million after finding one of the largest natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania polluted their well water. The verdict Thursday comes at the end of a bitter and long-running federal lawsuit pitting … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Portage, Mich.-based J.M. Wilson announced several promotions and new hires. Sherry Ihling was promoted to senior brokerage underwriter and Jennifer Tonthola was promoted to senior transportation underwriter in the Portage location. The company added Suzane Wolf-Pierce as property/casualty underwriter in Madison, Wis., and … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A new federal audit of the first six months of operations of Vermont Health Connect details how the system failed to meet several federal requirements designed to ensure that people who sought health insurance through the system were qualified to … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is advising consumers to beware of unscrupulous tax preparers this tax-filing season. Stewart said Thursday that the Department of Insurance has received reports of tax preparers who are wrongly informing Delawareans without health insurance … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Vincent L. Braband Insurance Inc. in Arlington Heights, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1930, Vincent L. Braband Insurance Inc. (Braband) is a retail insurance … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

By Jonathan Stempel BP Plc does not have to face U.S. lawsuits by energy and drilling companies over losses they suffered from an offshore drilling ban imposed soon after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal