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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Dog bites accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners insurance liability claim dollars paid out in 2015, costing in excess of $570 million, according to the Insurance Information Institute and State Farm ®, the largest writer of homeowners insurance in the United States.

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Real Estate Weekly News– Radian Group Inc. announced that its stockholders re-elected ten directors, who serve one-year terms and are re-elected annually. Radian offers products and services through two business segments: Mortgage Insurance, through its principal mortgage insurance subsidiary Radian Guaranty…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Unum Group was posted on May 6, 2016. The SEC file number is 0001193125-16-581915.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing is a formal document or…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– CNA announced the recent appointment of David Hallstrom to Assistant Vice President and Industry Leader, Cyber Insurance. Prior to joining CNA in 2008, David held management positions at Risk Placement Services, Zurich North America, Near North National Group and Aon. David earned a bachelor’s…

May 19– A self-employed carpenter from the Ozarks worries about what will happen to his fellow workers if Missouri continues to avoid expanding Medicaid health insurance coverage. Missouri is one of 19 states that has declined to expand Medicaid, citing those future costs. Rowley and some friends got together to film “The Healthcare Blues,” a music video…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Real Estate Weekly News– LERETA, the leading national real estate tax service and flood data provider, has released Escrow Open Item Manager, a workflow management application and dashboard that manages escrow tax payment cycles for the company’s tax outsource customers. Susan Portnoy, LERETA’s outsourcing…

Joanna L. Rich, 51, was indicted Wednesday in federal court in St. Louis on charges of mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property. The indictment says that from November 2011 through at least June of 2015, Rich concocted an investment scheme in which investors in FSG Fundraising LLC were promised risk-free returns of 10 percent in three years.

Copart Inc., a Dallas- based company that conducts online auctions of wrecked and damaged vehicles, is leasing portions of the 17- acre site at 3701 N. Nevada Ave. for storage of vehicles. Copart also has a Denver facility and about 160 locations in the United States and Canada. Copart was launched in 1982; the company takes vehicles that have been totaled in…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics& Government Week– A patent application by the inventor Nickell, Robert P., filed on October 28, 2015, was made available online on May 12, 2016, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.

Alteris Partners with Zenith and The California Association of Mutual Water Companies Joint Powers Risk and Insurance Management Authority Serving Small to Mid-Sized Mutual Water Companies in California. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Alteris Insurance Services, Inc., in partnership with the California Association of…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Business Weekly– Overall issuance of funding agreement-backed securities by U.S. life/annuity insurers has seen a sizable uptick over the past few years after the market essentially shut down in 2009 following the financial crisis. According to data compiled by A.M. Best, there was approximately $16.0…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Prudential Financial Inc. was posted on May 9, 2016. The SEC file number is 0001137774-16-000244.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing is a…

May 19– The state has revoked the licenses of Meaghan A. Ruether and her company, Rangewood Insurance LLC, for one year. “The department has a responsibility to the citizens of Idaho to administer the insurance code,” Director Dean Cameron said Thursday in a news release. Ruether was ordered to pay a penalty of $4,000, of which $1,000 was suspended indefinitely,…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Loews Corporation announced that on April 8, 2016 it acquired 34,972,795 common shares of Nautilus Mineral Inc. in a rights offering at a price of CAD $0.15 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of CAD $5,245,919.25. The shares acquired in the rights offering represented approximately 5.52%…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a trademark application has been made for “POLARIS INCOME PLUS DAILY” by Elizabeth R Pearce, representing American International Group. The owner/registrar information for this application is: Elizabeth…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health& Science– Although the number of Medicare telemedicine visits increased more than 25 percent a year for the past decade, in 2013, less than 1 percent of rural Medicare beneficiaries received a telemedicine visit, issue of JAMA. Medicare limits telemedicine reimbursement to select live video…