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Ask A Licensed Private Investigator, Part 3
FRAUDBUSTERS: ASK A LICENSED PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR Part 3 Q: I'm curr...onsumer Affairs, Bureau of Collections and Investigative Services. A company m...

... Does the company write primarily Private Passenger Auto, Workers Comp, Commer...uating a carrier’s financial stability and minimizing the risk of an E&O c...

... Best's Ratings. We'll review each factor, then comment on its applicability to Big Red: ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Has the company been in business for less than 15 years? Yes. The insurer was organized in 1978 (see Exhibit 1) . Does the company write primarily Private Passenger Auto, Workers Comp, Commercial or E&S /Specialty business? Yes. Almost two thirds of Big Red's premium volume was Workers Comp and one third other Commercial (see Exhibit 6) . Have there been any recent atypical ownership/management changes ... Generally, eight or more total Yes' answers or three or more Yes' answers to factors 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 22 might indicate a need for further investigation. Obviously, the higher the number of Yes' answers, the greater the need for urgency. In this case of the Big Red Insurance Co., we came up with a minimum of 12 Yes' responses and, depending on an agent's response to ... marginal vigilance, this real-life insolvency could have been predicted' at least a year or more before the insurer went under Disclaimer: This Checklist provides a tool for documenting financial and marketing information about P/C insurers in order to establish due diligence in the event of Errors and Omissions claims against agents. No warranties, express or implied, are made that the list is either a predictor or a guarantor of a company's financial condition. To illustrate the use of the Insolvency Checklist, please download this financial information excerpted from a 1983 ...

... Department of Insurance, and not private parties.. Moradai-Shalal v. Fireman'... are enforceable under both California and U.S. law, unless they can be attack...

...ns with anyone, whether public or private (including, but not limited to, any ... EXHIBIT 14 DISCLOSURES OF THE SELLER AND STOCKHOLDER PURSUANT TO SECTION 14