Saturday, December 31, 2005

Protecting Yourself (Metro Weekly) So you've gotten the required insurance


Protecting Yourself (Metro Weekly)
So you've gotten the required insurance on your car and you think you're taken of. Or now that your homeowner's policy is in place, you're protected should some calamity befall you. Right?

Best, worst car insurers are ranked (Poughkeepsie Journal)
ALBANY American Modern Insurance Co. ranked No. 1 for fewest customer complaints among automobile insurance companies doing business in New York this year, while Empire Insurance received the most, a state Insurance Department report issued this week said.

Hatch targets credit-based insurance rates (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)
Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch and two state legislators announced a bill Thursday to ban insurance companies from using a consumer's credit score in setting prices for home or auto coverage.

Car insurer runs its own medical clinic to cut costs (Bradenton Herald)
LONDON - When James Weeks was in a car accident in southern England late last year, he turned to an unlikely source to treat his whiplash and back injury: insurance company Norwich Union.

CREDIT REPORTS: Hatch -- Keep credit scores out of insurance cost calculation (Grand Forks Herald)
MINNEAPOLIS - A proposal to ban the use of credit scores in setting the price of auto and homeowners insurance was outlined Thursday by Attorney General Mike Hatch and DFL legislators.

Rakuten to enter insurance, bank business in 2006 (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc. will enter into the nonlife insurance and banking businesses in 2006 in partnership with financial institutions in a bid to become a full-service financial company, President Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview with Kyodo News.

State Auto Financial Named "Best Managed" by Forbes (Insurance Journal)
Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corporation has been named by Forbes Magazine as its Best Managed Company in the insurance industry for the year 2006. State Auto's ranking appears in

State Auto Financial named ``Best Managed Insurance Company'' by Forbes (The Auto Channel)
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Dec. 2, 20059, 2005--State Auto Financial Corporation has been named by Forbes Magazine as its Best Managed Company in the insurance industry for the year 2006. The January 9, 2006 issue of the magazine lists STFC among the 26 "Best Managed Companies in America."

U.S. braces for Katrina car scams (Sun-Sentinel)
ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. -- As the vast vehicular wreckage wrought by Hurricane Katrina is carted away, law-enforcement and insurance officials are anticipating the arrival of tens of thousands of those vehicles on used-car lots across the U.S.

GoDaddy.com (Macon Daily)
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Six bills will lead reform of tort insurance system (Greeley Tribune Online)
Six bills aiming to change auto insurance laws will drive a new debate over Colorado's 21/2-year-old system of tort automobile insurance.

Achievements (River Valley Business Report)
Deborah A. Lee, a sales and service agent with the AAA Travel & Insurance branch office in Onalaska, Wis., has completed a five-day Center of Excellence Sales Training program, an instructor-led, performance-based training course offered by the Auto Club Group.

Accident still plagues car dealer (Craig Daily Press)
Tony Maneotis' court file is stamped "case closed." But Moffat County's insurance company is demanding that the car dealer pay for a Sheriff's Office truck damaged in a collision three years ago.

Six Bills Will Lead Reform of Tort Insurance System (RedNova)
By Rebecca Waddingham, Greeley Tribune, Colo. Dec. 29--Six bills aiming to change auto insurance laws will drive a new debate over Colorado's 21/2-year-old system of tort automobile insurance. When the 2006 legislative session begins Jan.

Salvaged Car Buyers Sue Insurance Company (The Auto Channel)
Angry consumers have filed lawsuits in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Celina, Napoleon and Ottawa, in the last few weeks, against State Farm Insurance Company and local car dealers for not telling the truth about salvage cars they were selling and which the insurance company had totaled out and then resold.

N.Y. Rates Auto Insurers on Complaints (Insurance Journal)
The New York State Insurance Department's 2005 Annual Ranking of Automobile Insurance Complaints shows Progressive Insurance Group placed highest among the 10 auto insurers with the largest New York

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