http://www.insurancejournal.com Up to the minute insurance news and magazine archives for property casualty insurance professionals en-us Copyright 2009 Wells Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:40:11 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/img/insurance-journal-property-casualty-magazine-logo_88x31.gif http://www.insurancejournal.com 88 31 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/07/02/101927.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/07/02/101927.htm Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says the recently adjourned 2009 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature was a success when it came to insurance legislation. The Department of Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101918.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101918.htm A Connecticut woman and her son avoided jail time Tuesday and were sentenced to three years probation for attempted insurance fraud and evidence tampering after a fiery wreck at the bottom of Avon Mou Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101908.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101908.htm Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late Tuesday. The Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101940.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101940.htm Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received $5.9 million from insurance companies during the first half of 2009, the department has reported. The money was re Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101915.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101915.htm All 14 hospitals in Rhode Island have agreed to adopt a uniform set of precautions to prevent surgeons from operating on the wrong body part or committing other grievous errors. Doctors and hospita Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101921.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2009/07/02/101921.htm The Rhode Island Senate has declined to take up auto body legislation opposed by the insurance industry. The bill would have required consumers to have an independent appraisal for car repair work Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101941.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101941.htm A Federal Court judge in Sacramento, Calif., has ruled that Greyhound could be liable for failing to put seatbelts on its buses. In this case, the plaintiffs were eight passengers who were traveling o Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101937.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101937.htm Indiana Department of Insurance has issued a warning to Indiana licensed agents to be aware of a potential scam targeting them. The Department has received reports from other states that individual Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101930.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/07/02/101930.htm A survey of business leaders in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests that the region's economy continues to show signs of improvement, but job losses persist. The Mid-America Business Condit Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101925.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101925.htm Los Angeles-based The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has completed the acquisiti Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2009/07/02/101912.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2009/07/02/101912.htm A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The complaint by 58-year-old Larry Reece says a pallet of plyw Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2009/07/02/101909.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2009/07/02/101909.htm Workers' compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. says it has completed an early payoff on a $200 million startup loan from West Virginia. President and Chief Executive Officer Greg B Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2009/07/02/101935.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2009/07/02/101935.htm Bermuda-based Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Limited has tossed its hat into the ring of potential merger partners for IPC Re. The company announced that it has made an offer to the Board of IPC Re to Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101939.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/07/02/101939.htm Members of the Workers' Compensation Action Network (WCAN) have launched a campaign to oppose more than $60 million in new annual workers' compensation Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2009/07/02/101938.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2009/07/02/101938.htm A bulletin from Aon UK in London notes that "financial failure poses the greatest risk to global supply chains," according to 75 percent of the companies who participated in Aon's "2009 Risk in 21st C Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500