Daily Featured Articles - 9/3/2010

Insurance Industry Loses Jobs, But Moderately

The insurance industry, continuing its downward trend since the recession, has dropped 1,300 jobs in the latest employment report of August numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...

California Rejects Rate Review for Health Plans

It would have forced health maintenance organizations and health insurers to follow the same rules that apply to automobile and homeowners insurance policies under 1988's Proposition 103...

Owners of Mexican Restaurant Indicted in $2 Million Life Insurance Fraud Scheme

The indictment outlines a scheme where the defendants traveled to Mexico in 2008 and faked the death of Ismael B. Rodriguez. Maria Rodriguez is alleged to have then returned to the United States with a fraudulent Mexican death certificate in an attempt to obtain approximately $2 million worth of life insurance on her husband. In reality, Ismael B. Rodriguez was alive and later located by law enforcement...

Judge Won't Dismiss Insurer From Lawsuit Over Slain Gated Community Resident

The lawsuit says Cincinnati Insurance denied medical expenses for Amanda Ross even though she paid dues, which were used to purchase the policy with Cincinnati. It also says that Cincinnati breached the applicable policy by failing to compensate the plaintiff for ambulance, medical, hospital and funeral services...

Health-Care Tax Credits Not Enough for Small Businesses to Comply

The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based private health research foundation, says that tax credits may not be enough to get other eligible small businesses not currently offering coverage to start providing it before the state-run health insurance exchanges and mandates are required in 2014...

Bed Bugs May Bite Insurers, But Won't Dog Industry

When dogs bite people, insurers often pay. But what happens when bed bugs bite? Bed-bug infestations in the United States have multiplied at an alarming rate in recent years...

Philly Drivers Among the Worst

Here's why Philadelphia, and not Fort Collins, Colo., is the setting for not one, but two cable-television series that revolve around driving in the city: Accidents do happen here...

NAIC Selects Blackrock Solutions to Model Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

The NAIC has selected Blackrock Solutions to assist state regulators as they determine risk-based capital (RBC) requirements for the commercial mortgage- backed securities (CMBS) held by insurers...

Protect Yourself, Your Home and Your Business During a Hurricane

With Hurricane Earl expected to rock Canada's East Coast this weekend, RSA Canada, one of the country's leading home, car and business insurers, encourages residents to take precautions to protect their homes and families...

Life Doesn’t Have to Be So Complicated

An insurance research firm reported that ownership in life insurance has reached a 50-year low, with nearly a third of U.S. households not having a form of this financial protection. "Life insurance is one of the building blocks of a solid financial plan," says Debbie Cecil, director of life products for Unum...

Insurance Newswires - 9/3/2010

CNA Announces Risk Control Webinars on Employment Risks

Aetna Reminds Members Affected by Hurricane Earl Where to Call for Help

Shampoo Maker Buys $1 Million Insurance Policy to Protect NFL Player's Hair

UConn risk program proves popular overseas [Connecticut Post, Bridgeport]

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