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	<title>Insurance Journal &#187; West News</title>
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		<title>Thoits in Northern California Adds Tillotson to Employee Benefits Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Jose, Calif.-based Thoits Insurance Service Inc. has named Bernie Tillotson senior vice president of employee benefits. Tillotson brings more than three decades of benefits and human resources expertise to his new position, with a career that began in human &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>McDermott Joins Champion Risk in Southern California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Del Mar, Calif.-based Champion Risk &#38; Insurance Services L.P., an affiliate of Wood, Gutmann &#38; Bogart Insurance Brokers, has hired Frank McDermott as a producer. McDermott, a licensed CPA, who previously owned his own accounting firm, focuses on complex workers’ &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Program Insurance in Southern California Taps Striniste</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has hired Jay Striniste in the underwriting department. Striniste will be a senior underwriter focusing on the growth and development of program business with a specialty in allied health, directors and officers and &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>US House Oks Bill For Tribe’s Move Out Of Tsunami Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House approved a bill Monday that will allow the Quileute tribe to move its school and other buildings out of a tsunami zone on the Washington coast to higher ground in Olympic National Park. The land transfer bill &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>$1.5M New West Deal Before Montana Insurance Commissioner</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/02/08/234719.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State regulators are examining a $1.5 million proposal by an Oregon insurer to take over a portion of Montana&#8217;s third-largest health insurance company as part of a government anti-trust settlement. Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen has scheduled a &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado Lawmakers Review Spaceflight Liability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado lawmakers are trying to promote the space industry by limiting liability for companies that carry passengers. State Sen. Mary Hodge, a Democrat from Brighton, says there are risks with spaceflight. She wants to help a spaceflight hub planned for &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>California Independent Contractor Law May Be Liability for Agents, Brokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Jergler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new California labor law designed to punish employers for misclassifying workers has broad legal language that can possibly impact insurance agents and brokers who knowingly advise clients on employee classifications to the tune of thousands of dollars per misclassified &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Report Card: California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/02/07/234548.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones marked his first full year in office last month by looking back on his and the California Department of Insurance’s accomplishments during 2011. Insurance Journal wants to know from those in the industry: Is Jones an &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Officer Dismissed From Suit Over Student&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has dismissed the city of St. George, Utah and one of its police officers from a lawsuit filed by the parents of a high school student who was killed while handling a blank-firing prop pistol just before &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>$200 Million Ceded Lands Settlement in Hawaii Under Consideration</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/02/07/234539.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Legislative committees will begin looking into a proposed $200 million real estate deal that will settle the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ceded lands claims with the state. In November, Gov. Neil Abercrombie and OHA announced they had reached a &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>West Agencies Help SIAA Grow By 47 in January</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several agencies from the western region joined Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance in January, pushing its number added to 47 for the month. Of January&#8217;s signed members, 33 are liberated &#8220;captive agents&#8221; new to the independent agency system, according to SIAA. &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Former Cal-OSHA Chief Defends Workplace Safety Program</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2012/02/06/234423.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former chief of the California Occupational Safety and Health Division defended its Injury’s Illness Prevention Program following a study by think tank RAND Corp. showing the occupational safety program that requires California businesses to eliminate workplace hazards only works &#8230;]]></description>
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