A national insurance company, based in Chevy Chase, Md., was recognized as one of the 2012 Best Places to Work in Virginia by the Virginia Business and Best Companies Group.

GEICO was fined $100,000 by Washington State officials and ordered to refund about $7.5 million in overcharges to thousands of its customers in the state.

More than 100 felony charges have been filed against suspects allegedly involved in an elaborate, organized fraud ring operating in the San Francisco area that allegedly cost 11 insurance companies up to $500,000 in losses.

A group of seven North and South Carolinians were arrested Sept. 8 and accused of conducting a more than $100,000 insurance fraud scheme involving staged auto accidents.

Geico, which already employs 3,000 people in its regional office in Virginia, is looking for more employees to support its national auto insurance operations.

Independent insurance agents ranked in the middle of the pack in a survey of customers’ experience, while insurance providers ranked well ahead of health insurance plans in the annual analysis.

Ten people were arrested in North Carolina and accused of participating in a staged auto accident ring operating in Nash, Edgecombe and Franklin counties and costing insurers an estimated $76,000 in fraudulent claims.

GEICO is accused in a proposed class-action suit of “deceptively selling” auto insurance policies by failing to tell some of its policyholders the legal amount of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage they were required to buy.

GEICO filed three lawsuits seeking a total of $17 million from three organizations for allegedly submitting thousands of suspect no-fault fraud claims.

A former agent of the Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) had her insurance license revoked for providing inaccurate information on her insurance application to obtain more favorable rates, according to the Maryland Insurance Administration.