SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft to orbit on Tuesday as part of a mission that would make it the first commercial company to attempt to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. The …
If you hunt for answers among California’s myriad experts and those with informed opinions on workers’ compensation and ask them to name the biggest problem with the system, a majority will cite the rising costs associated with treating injured workers …
That had to be the most salacious first paragraph ever in Insurance Journal‘s history.” I smiled and couldn’t help letting a bit of pride well up when an insurance industry veteran and fellow courtroom gallery onlooker expressed his thougths on …
State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, has become the latest person to question intervenor fees, calling on the California Department of Insurance to review a state program that allows consumer groups to intervene in insurance rate cases. According to Vargas, …
California is the top dog in State Farm’s annual list of dog bite claims, and the state’s reported 527 dog bite claims and more than $20 million paid out in 2011 by the Bloomington, Ill.-based carrier represents an increase of …
At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers’ compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour session. It was titled, “Informational Hearing, Injured …
The phrase “Go west young man,” may not apply so well to the insurance industry in the nation’s most populous state. An examination of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Development Department data for California shows hiring for the insurance …
Steve Young was somewhat upbeat when he was asked what he thought about the outcome of a long-brewing legal battle between three insurance associations and the California Department of Insurance. That upbeat attitude is because a court of appeals accepted …
Put the following in the “I’ll be dead or too old to care” category. Drivers will save $68 billion in fuel costs when the Obama Administration’s 54.5 miles-per-gallon standard is fully implemented in 2030, according to a report by the …
With a quote from former president Ronald Reagan, an emergency motion from a sex toy business and increasingly acerbic accusations, the legal battle between the new and old owners of bankrupt agency C.M. Meiers continues to wage as each side …
