West News for March 2006 Insurance Skills Center Hosts Two Contractors Conferences Construction, Insurance, Banking Industries To Meet and Develop Moisture Management Standards California Employer Arrested for Wrongly Accusing Employee of Workers Comp Fraud Association Warns Insurers that Bill Would Impose Hidden Tax to Fund California Campaigns Swett & Crawford Picks Rountree to Head Southwest Operations Colorado Cites Lawsuit for Big Jump in Insurance Costs City in Utah Expects $2.5 Million Fire Insurance Settlement New Law May Hamper Nevada Mining Watchdog Group NAS Miscellaneous Medical Malpractice Insurance Sports New Features Association of California Insurance Companies Elects Officers Washington Gains New Fraud Bureau Heffernan Group Adds Staff in San Francisco, Portland Barney & Barney Adds Two to Ownership Ranks Cant To Head Washington Workplace Safety and Health Division Safeco To Host First-Quarter Earnings Conference Call Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Host Contractual Risk Transfer Seminar in Pasadena Abram Interstate Offers Dwelling Under Construction/Course of Construction Policy Kulongoski, Leavitt Plan Oregon Bird Flu Summit California State Fund Holds Ergonomics Workshop in Sacramento Safeco to Lease Puget Sound Facilities Tax Help Available for California Storm and Flood Victims Standard Insurance Creates Advice Service for Retirement Plans California Commission Hosts Forum on Catastrophe Preparedness Answer Financial Appoints Goebel To Head Marketing Efforts Insurer’s Sponsorship May Help Renoe-Tahoe Keep PGA Tour Pipe Corrosion Biggest Threat as Alaska Marks Exxon Valdez Spill Fearing Bird Flu Outbreak, Officials Hope Tamiflu Will Help Feds Probe Water Tritium Levels at Nuclear Power Plants California Proposes Decrease in Workers Comp Pure Premium Rates Utah Appoints New Directors, Creates Market Conduct Division Idaho Considering Law to Increase Award of Attorney’s Fees New Mexico Superintendent Serna To Resign from Nonprofit Board Former ’49er Wersching Indicted on $8M Insurance Fraud and Tax Evasion Abram Interstate Unveils Special Event Program in California, Arizona Lovestad-Worthington’s Rusty Young Passes Away Garamendi Issues Cease and Desist Order Against TSI Title & Escrow The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Orange County’s Ed-Day Santa Fe Bank for Insurance Division Donated to Nonprofit Group Founded by Insurance Superintendent Small Business California Finds Employers Still Concerned about Workers’ Comp About 200 Gather to Mourn Victims of Kauai Dam Break, State Prepares for More Rain Pacific Specialty Promotes Summers to Chief Operating Officer Riley to Head Networked Insurance Agents’ Nevada Sales Abram Interstate Offers Coverage for Janitorial Services Officials Hope ’06 Quake Centennial Prompts More to Get Insurance Adams Appointed to Fill Arizona House Vacancy Keys Left in Car? Arizona Bill Would Allow Insurance Hit Arrowhead General Offers Personal Motorcycle Program in Arizona Continental Risk Opens California Marine Facility Calif. Insurance Commissioner Candidate Bustamante to Address Latin American Agents Trinity Names Coe Vice President Brokerage and Branch Manager Quality Planning Corp. Names Olson Assistant Vice President of Global Services Insurance Educational Association Forecasts the Future Sacramento Man Allegedly Submits Fraudulent Documents To Support of Auto Claim American E&S Insurance Brokers Names Smithson Executive Vice President Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud The Hartford Lowers Utah Auto Rates Pair of V.P.’s Joining JBL&K Risk Services in Portland Calif. Truck Driver Pulled Over for Falsifying Insurance Claim Dam Breaks on Kauai, Strong Winds, Rain Down 12 Poles on Oahu Highway Acordia Names Rudolph as Managing Director for Its Ariz. Operations Calif. Law Office Manager Sent to Prison in Large-Scale Auto Fraud ABD Insurance and Financial Services Gains Top D&O Broker Rating Calif. Court Reinstates Class Action Against Lead Paint Makers Colemont Names Maddox Assistant Vice President and Broker Fresno, Calif., Qualifies for State’s Low-Cost Auto Insurance Program ME James Surplus Adds New Package for Off Road Racers AFS/IBEX Financial Services Promotes Three in Western Region Wash. Ag Groups Praise Lawmakers for Farm-Friendly Session California Bars Workers from Neverland Ranch Due to Insurance Increasing Cost of Insuring Mont. Jockeys Threatens Racing John B. Collins Associates Opens Orange County, Calif., Office Calif. Regulator Reaches Settlement with Marsh to End Secret Commissions Unigard Announces Staff Changes Colorado Emergency Medical Payments Coverage Bill Killed in Committee Insurers Happy with Utah Privacy Bills Mazza Joins Baldwin Resource Group Abram Interstate Offers New Program for Garage Insurance Dahlgren Named Director of Marketing for The Harry W. Gorst Co. Audit Shows Spokane, Wash., Ambulance Patients, Insurance Companies Overbilled Fire Damages Farmers’ Wyoming Office Multi-State Class Actions Could Infringe on State Regulators’ Authority, Interfere with Claims Adjudication Los Angeles Clerk Charged in Fraudulent Disability Claim Scam Union Bank of California Names Janes CEO of Insurance Subsidiary Beecher Carlson Expands Executive Liability Practice, Hires Zak for Los Angeles office Agents, Brokers Encourage Calif. Supreme Court to De-Publish Opinion Alaska Workers Recover 56,000 Gallons; Content Likely ‘Mostly Oil’ Privacy, Workers’ Compensation Dominate Utah’s Legislative Session Meadowbrook Enters Nev. Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Market Calif. State Fund, Kern County, Host Heat Illness Prevention Seminar Up to 15 Percent of Montana Vehicles Don’t Have Basic Insurance Ariz. Senate Backs Higher Hurdle for Some Malpractice Suits Cavignac & Associates Holds OSHA Construction Seminar in San Diego Four Riverside, Calif. Residents Arrested for Alleged Fradulent Auto Theft Claim Anderson & Murison Promotes Pappas; Personal Umbrella Program Unveiled Insurers’ Photography Tells Story of ’06 San Francisco Quake Levee Break in Sonoma County, Calif., Floods Portion of Highway Wash. Lawmakers Reach Agreement on Unemployment Insurance M.E. James Surplus Lines Names Chang Underwriter State Fund to Host Restaurant Health and Safety Workshop in San Francisco University of Wyoming Offers Workshop to Help Reduce Agricultural Risk RIMS Hosts Property, Casualty and D&O Seminar Utah’s GBS Benefits Affiliates with the Leavitt Group Former San Diego Broker Sentenced in Premium Theft Scam Colo. Supreme Court Decides Negligent Hiring Case Washington On the Hunt for Unregistered Contractors, Electricians Putnam Appointed VP of Calif.’s State Compensation Insurance Fund Study Says Californians Unmotivated to Prepare for Next Disaster Hawaii Leads Nation in Motorcycle Theft, Says Progressive Spring Break Prime Time for Home Break-Ins, Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association Says DENSO Corporation Forming Captive Insurer in Hawaii Pair Convicted in Calif. for Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud Calif. Expands Low-Cost Auto Program to Three Counties Calif. Home Inspections for Flood Damage Begin HWAC Providing 10-Point Checklist for Calif. Residents on Home Warranties West News Archives
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