Ross Joins Pinnacol Assurance as President and CEO July 28, 2005Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's largest workers' compensation insurer, announced that its board of di...
Calif. Trial Judge Rules Prop. 64 Is Not Retroactive In Case Against State Fund July 27, 2005A San Francisco trial court judge recently ruled in the case Palm Medical v. State Compensation I...
Mother-Daughter Team Arrested for Calif. Workers' Comp Scam July 13, 2005Two Kern County, California farm labor contractors surrendered to authorities July 12 after a two-ye...
State Fund's Eureka Office Relocates to Humboldt Bank Plaza July 01, 2005State Compensation Insurance Fund's Eureka Office has moved its operations to the Humboldt Bank Plaz...
State Fund Withdraws Plans for Home Office Expansion June 15, 2005State Compensation Insurance Fund has announced it has decided to not move forward with the plans fo...
Roofing Contractor Pleads Guilty to Workers' Comp Fraud June 15, 2005California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has ple...
Hair Joins Utah's Workers Compensation Fund June 14, 2005Dan Hair joined Workers Compensation Fund as senior vice president, safety and underwriting.
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Garamendi Calls for 18% Decrease in Work Comp Pure Premium Rate June 01, 2005California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi called for an 18 percent decrease in workers' compe...
Calif. State Fund Files an Average 14% Rate Decrease June 01, 2005State Compensation Insurance Fund has filed an average collectible rate decrease of 14 percent on ne...
State Fund Instructs So. Cal Employers on Workers' Comp Fraud May 31, 2005As part of its ongoing statewide educational program on workers' compensation fraud, State Compensat...
San Jose Chain Store Owners Plead Guilty in Workers' Comp Scam May 20, 2005A San Jose, California husband and wife have pled guilty to charges of workers' compensation premium...
CDI Reveals Former Highland Framers Owners Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison, $3.1M Restitution May 19, 2005Investigators announced that Jay Neal Wright, 52, a former Bay Area businessman and owner of Highlan...
New Permanent Disability Regulations to Reduce Workers' Comp Rates May 19, 2005New permanent disability regulations will reduce the cost of workers' compensation insurance pure pr...
Calif. Contractor Sentenced in Workers' Comp Fraud Case; Will Pay State Fund $605,940 May 17, 2005The owner of a Corona, California-based construction firm has begun serving a two-year jail sentence...
Three Suspects Arraigned on Premium Fraud Charges May 12, 2005Three suspects were arraigned May 11 in Ventura County Superior Court in connection with a workers' ...
Four Suspects Arrested for Workers' Comp Fraud May 06, 2005Authorities arrested four suspects May 6 after an extensive investigation into a workers' compensati...
Former Calif. SCIF President Webb Passes Away; Worked at SCIF For More than 36 Years May 02, 2005Former State Fund President Jack Webb - one of the most influential and colorful figures in the 91-y...
State Fund Assists Investigation of San Diego Chiropractor Sentenced for Workers' Comp Fraud April 26, 2005A San Diego chiropractor -- who was charged with billing State Compensation Insurance Fund for treat...
Calif. Commissioner Comments on Workers' Comp Pure Premium Rate Hearing April 25, 2005The following statement is from California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in regards to today...
Calif. Man Sentenced for Workers' Comp Fraud March 22, 2005Gregg Leo Curwick, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, has been sentenced by the Kern County Superior C...
Court Rules in Garamendi's Favor Regarding State Fund March 08, 2005A Sacramento County court ruled that California's quasi-public State Compensation Insurance Fund ca...
State Fund Files 2004 Financial Statement with CDI March 02, 2005In an annual statement filed Wednesday with the California Department of Insurance, State Compensati...
Tudor Appointed Acting President of Calif. State Fund February 18, 2005California's State Compensation Insurance Fund's Board of Directors have appointed James Tudor as ac...
State Compensation Insurance Fund President Oki Announces Retirement February 05, 2005State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that after three years of leading California's largest w...
Calif. Man Arrested on Workers' Comp Fraud, Embezzlement Charges February 01, 2005On Jan. 31, Gregg Leo Curwick, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., surrendered himself in Bakersfield to in...
Calif.'s State Fund Implements New Reform Measure January 24, 2005State Compensation Insurance Fund announced the establishment of an enhanced Medical Provider Networ...
Calif. Governor Predicts 30% Increase in State's Costs Despite Reforms January 16, 2005California's workers' compensation costs are going down, even if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget...
CRM Appoints New Claims Account Coordinator January 13, 2005Irvine, Calif.-based Compensation Risk Managers of California, LLC (CRM) has announced the appointme...
Calif. Chiropractor, Two Associates Nabbed in Workers' Comp Scam Costing More than $10 Million January 06, 2005A Modesto, California chiropractor and two employees were arrested early Thursday on charges that th...
Governor's Plan Putting Calif. Workers' Comp Market on Right Track, Says ACIC January 05, 2005Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for reform of the troubled California workers' compensation sy...
Sacramento Day Care Worker Gets 90 Days in Jail in Workers' Comp Fraud Case December 30, 2004Sacramento resident Thomas Jordan was sentenced on Dec. 28 to 90 days in jail on a felony workers' c...
Missouri Employers Mutual Assigned 'A-' by Best December 28, 2004Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of "A-" (excellent) to Missour...
Authorities Nab Correctional Officer in Alleged Workers' Comp Fraud Scam December 16, 2004A former Folsom Prison Correctional Officer was arrested Dec. 15 after an investigation into alleged...
Judge's Key Ruling Favors CDI in Trial Concerning Regulatory Authority over State Fund December 14, 2004In an important development Dec. 13, Judge Paul Alvarado issued a tentative ruling affirming that th...
State Fund Collects $550,000 in Restitution from Workers' Comp Fraud Case December 10, 2004State Compensation Insurance Fund collected $550,000 as the first installment of a total $677,693.00...
California DOI Disciplines Agent for Insurance Fraud December 09, 2004On Nov. 29, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi revoked the insurance licenses of Daniel Matthew D...
ACIC Releases Statement on Workers' Comp Reforms December 07, 2004The following is a statement presented to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee Dec. 7...
L.A. Business Owner Sentenced for Comp Fraud December 06, 2004A Los Angeles business owner was sentenced to pay $1.8 million in restitution and fines this week af...
Corona Man Arrested for Workers' Comp Fraud December 03, 2004Luis Roberto Diaz, of Corona, Calif., surrendered to the San Bernardino Superior Court on November 2...
California's SCIF Files an Average 5% Rate Decrease November 29, 2004State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it has filed with the California Department of Insurance...
PAULA Financial Reports Net Income for 3Q 2004 November 18, 2004Pasadena, Calif.-based PAULA Financial reported net income for the first nine months of 2004 of $915...
Garamendi Recommends 2.2 Percent Reduction in Workers' Comp Pure Premium Rates November 17, 2004California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi called for a 2.2 percent reduction pure premium rat...
Team Drywall Taken Into Custody on $290K Fraud Case October 28, 2004Four individuals from a Highland, California business called Team Drywall were taken into custody la...
Manufacturers Assoc. and State Fund Partner for Group Work Comp Insurance Savings August 19, 2004The California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) announced recently the formation of a p...
Texas Mutual Web Site is a Three-Peat Winner August 17, 2004Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that for the third consecutive year its Web site, ...
Dunlap Joins Collier Shannon Scott as Gov't Relations Advisor July 30, 2004Washington, D.C.-based law firm Collier Shannon Scott announced that John Dunlap joined the firm as ...
California Brothers and Employee Arrested in Alleged Felony Fraud Case July 14, 2004Brothers Sam Saeid Afghani, of Agoura Hills, Calif., and Siamac A. Afghani, of Calabasas, Calif., as...
Garamendi Announces Downward Trend in California Workers' Comp Rates July 13, 2004Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that received workers' compensation rate filings ill...
California State Fund's Fraud Program Nets $5 Million from Fraud Convictions July 12, 2004State Compensation Insurance Fund's anti-fraud program has enabled...
Calif. Commissioner Identifies Steps for State Fund to Reduce Workers' Comp Rates July 09, 2004Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released a statutorily mandated report on the State Compensati...
