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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360 |
May 22, 2012
The lack of competition and exorbitant rate charges point to a need for strong regulation of force-placed insurance programs, say consumer advocates in New York.
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By Elizabeth Festa |
March 13, 2012
The first meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance has been scheduled at the U.S.Treasury Department, even as interested parties await the report to Congress from Treasury’s Federal Office of Insurance.
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By Arthur D. Postal |
March 9, 2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will propose regulations this year imposing strict limits on force-placed insurance for homeowners, bringing it to a level that an industry expert says it should not be.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 10, 2011
The Treasury Department has
announced the 15 members of the Federal Advisory Committee on
Insurance (FACI), which is charged with advising the newly created Federal
Insurance Office—but state legislators are upset they aren’t being represented.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 2, 2011
Officials of Chubb and Liberty Mutual and consumer advocate Birny Birnbaum are among 15 people named today to the Treasury Department’s Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance.
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By Allison Bell |
October 25, 2010
Florida has a high concentration of older residents and a history of being a place where some have gone to try to take advantage of others.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 24, 2010
It never fails to surprise me how much of a hot-button issue credit scoring continues to be in our industry. It's not like it's some new ...
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By Staff Writer |
May 1, 2010
Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw has formed the Florida Insurance Consumer Coalition, a group of insurance consumer organizations that will work together to advise on and advocate for issues impacting Florida's insurance consumers.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 28, 2010
A bill opposed by insurers that would have banned credit-based insurance scoring in Wisconsin never made it out of committee before the end of the legislative session.
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By Daniel Hays |
February 9, 2010
The New York Insurance Department, in advance of releasing its new disclosure rules for the state's agents and brokers tomorrow, announced that they are fair to producers while protecting consumers.
