http://www.insurancejournal.com Up to the minute insurance news and magazine archives for property casualty insurance professionals en-us Copyright 2008 Wells Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:04:06 -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/west/2008/10/14/94611.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94611.htm Fire officials have been battling a wildfire blazing 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. "There's been no open flames for hours. It's just smoldering," Los Angeles County Fire Department spokes Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94610.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94610.htm The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has launched a Web site to help address concerns about the security of personal finances. The Web page addresses common questions about insur Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/10/14/94605.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/10/14/94605.htm Victims of the Minnesota Interstate 35W bridge collapse face a deadline this week for getting compensation from a special fund established by the Legislature. Claims must be submitted by Wednesday Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/10/14/94607.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/10/14/94607.htm Better buckle up if you're driving in Minnesota. Police are stepping up enforcement of seat-belt use over a 10-day period. The crackdown began Friday, Oct. 10, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 1 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94555.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94555.htm E.P.I.C. (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has appointed Michael La Fleur as princip Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94554.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/14/94554.htm The Arizona Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) congratulated the following property and casualty insurance professionals on obtaining the CPCU designation: -Lin Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94568.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94568.htm The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some insurers, is considering eliminating the unique right under which Bay State drivers have been able to appeal auto premium surchar Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94567.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94567.htm Sellers of insurance on bonds issued by bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are now likely to face demands that they pay out more than 91 cents on the dollar to buyers of those insurance contracts. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94565.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94565.htm American International Group Inc.'s shares fell 15 percent on Friday amid mounting liquidity concerns after the insurer drew on $9 billion from a government loan in the last week. AIG, crippled by Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/10/13/94589.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/10/13/94589.htm Survivors of seven people killed in an August fire in Memphis, Tenn. filed a lawsuit seeking $90 million. The Commercial Appeal reported the lawsuit filed in Circuit Court claims electrical proble Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94566.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/10/13/94566.htm As finance chiefs gathered in Washington D.C. this weekend to work out what went wrong with the world economy, the refusal of the U.S. Treasury to rescue investment bank Lehman Brothers was being blam Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94574.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94574.htm A fire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is finally out after burning for 121 days and costing more than $11 million to extinguish. Refuge manager Chris Lowie said no smoke or fire Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94571.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/10/13/94571.htm The Rhode Island Health Department has found that a surgical team that operated on the wrong knee of a patient at The Miriam Hospital failed to visually verify which knee needed the procedure. The Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2008/10/13/94560.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2008/10/13/94560.htm AIR Worldwide's latest bulletin on Pacific Ocean Hurricane Norbert traces the storm's passage over the southern Baja Peninsula, the Gulf of California, and its eventual landfall on the west coast of M Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/13/94557.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/10/13/94557.htm American International Group Inc. may sell its AIG Hawaii unit to pay off an emergency $85 billion federal loan. The local unit is part of the AIG Personal Auto Group, which the New York-based insurer Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500