The News Review:
- Farmers Insurance Claims Personnel Continue Helping California …
- AIG India Head: Insurance JV Operations With Tata Group To Continue
- Insurance: Proposal for 16% increase in workers’ comp cut to 5%
- Interisland Hawaiian Airline go!, Mondial Assistance Announce …
- FEMA: Get flood insurance
Farmers Insurance Claims Personnel Continue Helping California …
MarketWatch
16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Nov 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Claims personnel from Farmers Insurance Group of Companies(R) helping all
of its customers affected by the wildfires burning in the Corona,
Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Montecito, and Santa Barbara areas. Farmers Insurance asks its customers who have been ordered to evacuate
or who have suffered damage, or lost their home because of the
widespread wildfires, to immediately contact:
Farmers’ 24 hour claims hotline at:
1-800-HelpPoint (1-800-435-7764) for immediate assistance. Foremost Insurance customers should call: 1-800-527-3907. “Farmers has claims personnel throughout the Southern California fire
areas,” notes Farmers State Executive Directors Bill Matlock and Charles
Dabelgott. “We have one major location set up in the Sayre-Sylmar fire areas,”
stated Matlock.
AIG India Head: Insurance JV Operations With Tata Group To Continue
CNNMoney.com
(AIG) will continue its insurance joint ventures with the Tata Group and run itsasset management company in the current form, its country head said Monday. “Its business as usual. Both the companies are functioning the way they were,”Sunil Mehta told reporters on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit. AIG runs Tata AIG Life Insurance Co.
Insurance: Proposal for 16% increase in workers’ comp cut to 5%
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, CA
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California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner snubbed the workers’ comp rating bureau’s recommended rate change for a third consecutive time last month, though he did concede that some increase is needed. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, which is the agency responsible for recommending workers’ comp pure premium rate changes to the Department of Insurance, told the commissioner early this fall that actuaries showed a need for a 16 percent increase in rates. The bureau’s recommendations for an increase of 4. 2 percent last October and later 5. 2 percent were both slapped down by the commissioner, but for the first time in several years Mr.
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Interisland Hawaiian Airline go!, Mondial Assistance Announce …
MarketWatch
, Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Interisland Hawaiian airline go!, a division of Mesa Air Group, and
Mondial Assistance, best known for its Access America(R)
brand of travel insurance and assistance services, today announced a
partnership that will offer go! passengers the option to purchase Access
America travel insurance protection for their trip. Confirmed passengers on go! flights will be directed to a co-branded
website through a link in their itinerary confirmation. Eventually,
the insurance will be offered as part of the existing go! booking path
at.
FEMA: Get flood insurance
Times, IN
Thousands of homes and businesses in Indiana have been damaged by one or more of the 12 floods across the state in the past 10 years, and most Hoosiers, particularly those in Northwest Indiana, lacked the flood insurance needed to pay for repairs. Virginia Hale, a FEMA mitigation expert who has been in Northwest Indiana talking to residents about how best to protect their homes following September flooding in the region, said people need to get flood insurance whether or not they live in a flood zone. Greg Main, flood plain manager with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, said flood insurance offers the best opportunity for home and business owners, as well as renters, to protect their biggest financial investment. He said a standard homeowner’s insurance policy doesn’t cover flooding, and as little as 2 inches of water can cause thousands of dollars in damage. As long as the community participates in the National Flood Insurance Program, residents, business owners and renters are eligible for flood insurance, Main said. “We all live in a flood zone, it’s a matter of different levels of risk, so really, everyone should consider carrying flood insurance,” Main said. “In a flood plain, it’s not a matter of if, but when a flood will occur,” he said.