West News for June 2006 California Commissioner Questions Homeowners’ Insurance Rates CWI Holdings Issues $20 Million Trust Preferred Securities Snow to Lead Integro’s Canadian Construction Practice Risk and Insurance Management Society Hosts Western Conference California State Fund Receives $64,000 in Restitution for Workers’ Comp Fraud Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Orange County Holds Professional Liability Session Twenty-five Suspects Indicted on Fraud by California Department of Insurance Martin Joins R.E. Chaix & Associates Study of Port Terror Impacts Urges Focus on Economic Repair Farms Increasingly Rely on Subcontracted Farmworkers 1,000 Firefighters Stretched to Limit Battling burning acres in Nevada Yates & Associates Moves to Tustin Schall Joins Sacramento Office of Burns & Wilcox Jenson joins Salt Lake City Office of Burns & Wilcox Panasiti Named United Agencies Inc. General Manager in Pasadena Agency Management Resource Group Holds Producer School in Sacramento Los Angeles CPCU Installs Officers, Directors Pending Bills Undermine Calif. Workers Comp Reforms, Insurers Say Crosby Joins Warner Pacific Insurance Services Esurance Expands Central Valley, Calif., Office, Adds Jobs Washington Policyholders to Share in Aon Settlement Gaslamp Insurance Serivces Relocates to Larger Office Oregon Legislators Approve Package of Salmon Fishing Aid Montana Farm Insurer Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud NAS Insurance Lowers Tenant Discrimination Liability Premiums Twenty Arrested in Los Angeles for Alleged Insurance Fraud Hurtado Named Business Development Manager at IGIB Michelman & Robinson Opens San Francisco Office Colemont Names Brown Assistant Vice President California’s Mandatory Investment Reporting Unnecessary, Insurers Say California State Fund Raised $50,000 for Community Programs in Past Decade Court Rejects Catastrophic Brain Damage Claim Against County California Family Business-Owners Arrested on Fraud California Earthquake Insurance Rates Decreasing Independent Insurance Wholesalers Moves Portland Office Global Risk Advisors Names De La Rosa as Consultant State Fund Receives Nearly $600,000 in Restitution from San Diego County Contractor Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho Elect Board Members, Announce Award Winners Cambridge General Offers Enhanced Coverage for Third-Party Theft Losses Venture Insurance Expands Workers’ Comp in California Insurance Skills Center Offers California Courses about Wealthy Client Concerns GOP Candidate McGavick Got Millions Leaving Safeco Pride Industries Employee Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board Adopts New Heat Stress Regulations AnCap Insurance Writes Acuity Policy California Insurance Wholesalers Urged to Get Active, Pursue Legislation Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Lemac & Associates Employers Insurance Group’s Outlook Positive Washington’s Ethel Adams Legislation Takes Effect Apple Fined for Selling Contracts Without Wash. License New Mexico Appeals Court Rejects Market-Value Loss Claim Three Insurers Sue To Recover Claims Paid in ’02 Wildfire Ghiorso Joins Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. in Portland Hull & Co. Acquires Assets of Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Liberty Mutual Expands Options for Calif. Agribusiness Reeves Named Principal at Barney & Barney in San Diego Kotick Joins Heritage General Agency’s Orange County Office Beecher Carlson Expands Risk Services/Captive Operations in Denver Leoni joins AFS/IBEX Financial Services New Mexico’s Serna Warned Against Dual Roles, Consumer Group Says Investigation Found No Evidence Wash. Sex Abuse Claim is True Research Team to Study Genesis of Monsoon Storms Bill Holds Millions for Hawaii Washington Commissioner Hosts Summit on Climate Change Washington Rental Cars May Not Need Collision Waiver LA Police Investigating Whether Elderly Pair Scammed Third Man Computers Help Colo. Firefighters Spot Problem Homes SEC Launches Formal Investigation into McAfee Stock Options NAS Reduces Minimum Premiums on Miscellaneous Errors & Omissions Utah Studies Link Between Cancer, Public Safety Workers Wash. Trooper Accused of Taking Workers Comp While Off Fishing Three Californians Arrested for Allegedly Staging Auto Theft Networked Promotes Salivar to Territorial Sales VP in North Central Calif. Worldwide Facilities to Sponsor Tough Product Liability Class New Gay Civil Rights Law Takes Effect in Washington Ericson Named Marketing Manager for Frye Claims Consultation Hendry Appointed Chief Operating Officer of Countrywide Insurance Group Calif. Treasurer to Face Schwarzenegger, Bustamante Knocks Out Kraft USA Risk Group Buys Captive Insurance Managers of Phoenix BNC Insurance Services Acquires T.M. Richards & Associates Majestic Insurance Rating Moves from Stable to Positive Scottsdale Insurance Names Griffith Information Technology Vice President Modesto, Calif., Ranked Car Theft Capital of the Nation Lieutenant Governor to Return $150,000 from Insurance Industry Jury Awards Woman $101,500 for Premature Baby Born after Crash California Assembly Passes Two Bills Professional Insurance Agents of Washington/Alaska Elects Officers California State Fund Files Average 10 Percent Premium Decrease Top Hawaii Lawyers Disqualified from Dam Investigator Spot Jordan Joins Western Security Surplus’ Roseville Office Infinity Insurance Companies Seeks Applications for Confianza Award Aon Construction Services Group Adds Three to San Jose Office Rocky Mountain Agribusiness Conference Slated for Denver Standard & Poor’s Downgrades Mercury Insurance from Stable to Negative Safeco Insurance Intercompany Ratings Affirmed, Outlook Positive Two Elderly Women Indicted on Fraud Charges in Deaths of LA Hit-Run West News Archives
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