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California Bill Would Mandate Minimum Insurance Coverage at Rehabs
Feb 19 2021 // Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, in collaboration with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara introduced a bill intended to ensure that licensed drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities and...
California Commissioner Wants More Group Discounts for Lower-Income Drivers
Feb 18 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday released revised draft regulations to expand drivers’ access to group discounts. The revised draft regulations will extend discounts to previously...
Captain Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter in California Dive Boat Fire
Feb 18 2021 // The captain of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, pleaded not guilty this week to manslaughter charges. Jerry Boylan was arraigned in federal court in Los Angeles on 34...
Newfront Insurance in California Adds AmTrust Surety’s Spruill-Iqbal
Feb 18 2021 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has named Lindsay Spruill-Iqbal a principal and surety producer. Spruill-Iqbal joins Newfront from AmTrust Surety. Spruill-Iqbal has more than 15 years of marketing and...
NTIS Transportation Insurance Services in California Moves to Las Vegas
Feb 17 2021 // NTIS Transportation Insurance Services has relocated from Laguna Hills, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev. The California staff will now work remote. The firm has also added new staff and additional truck insurance markets. NTIS...
The Liberty Company Adds Ruggles in California
Feb 17 2021 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Mark Ruggles. Ruggles will be based in Northern California. He has more than 30 years in the industry with past stops at Brown & Brown, McGriff, and most recently...
California Commissioner Names Morales Diversity Task Force Leader
Feb 16 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has named Mark Morales to lead the California Department of Insurance’s Diversity Task Force, the first LGBTQ+ person named to the post. Morales replaces Sal Peinado,...
California Mother, Son Arrested for Fraud Involving Aston Martin
Feb 16 2021 // Ahmad Haris Tajyar, 45, and his mother, Malalay Tajyar, 70, both of Porter Ranch, Calif., were arrested on one felony count of insurance fraud each after allegedly filing a false auto insurance claim and making fraudulent...
Newfront in California Adds Gallagher’s Pedisich
Feb 16 2021 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Newfront Insurance has added Nick Pedisich as a principal and commercial insurance broker. He joins Newfront from Gallagher, where he was the area vice president. Prior to that, he had...
GM Settles With California Over Ignition Switch Statements for $5.75M
Feb 16 2021 // General Motors Co. agreed to a $5.75 million settlement to resolve allegations it made false statements to California’s largest pension system and other investors over its deadly ignition switch recalls. California...
CIG in California Promotes Cummins, Hepner
Feb 12 2021 // Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group has promoted Scott Cummins to assistant vice president in personal lines, and Pauleen Hepner to regional field executive. Cummins will oversee personal lines underwriting,...
More Felony Charges for California Insurance Agents in Reported $748K Theft
Feb 11 2021 // Additional charges of felony grand theft were filed this week against licensed California insurance agents Robert Farmer, 66, of Camarillo, and Marion Urcan, 68, of Agoura Hills. The additional charges were filed after...
Lockton Adds Lopez to Northern California Construction Practice
Feb 11 2021 // Lockton Pacific has added Cynthia Lopez to its construction practice in Northern California. Lopez is based in Lockton’s Sacramento office. Lopez’s expertise includes more than two decades in the insurance...
Bender in California Names Murray Technology Risk Advisor
Feb 11 2021 // Bender Insurance Solutions in Sacramento, Calif., has named Bryan Murray a technology risk advisor in the commercial lines department. He will provide risk management advice and education for technology businesses across...
Heffernan Acquires Micor Insurance Brokers in California
Feb 10 2021 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has acquired Micor Insurance Brokers in San Jose, Calif. The Micor San Jose office is Heffernan’s 10th California location. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Corrie Foos, president of...
Report on California’s Formulary Shows Pharmaceutical Costs Declining
Feb 9 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has updated the cost impact evaluation of the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule Drug Formulary, utilizing additional pharmaceutical transaction...
California Surplus Lines Weathered Pandemic, Wildfires, Civil Unrest
Feb 9 2021 // In a year marred by a pandemic, massive Western U.S. wildfires, civil unrest, and a contentious election, California’s surplus lines market “didn’t miss a beat.” That was the message from Ben McKay,...
California to Establish Home And Community Hardening Standards for Insurance
Feb 8 2021 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday announced a new partnership between the California Department of Insurance and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Administration to establish statewide standards for home and...
California Largest Utilities Will Spend Billions to Lower Wildfire Risk
Feb 8 2021 // California’s largest utilities said that they will spend about $13 billion to reduce the risk of wildfires following the worst fire season in modern state history and a string of blazes that were blamed on their...
Newfront Insurance in California Adds Benedetti to Employee Benefits
Feb 8 2021 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has named Joseph Benedetti a principal and employee benefits producer. Benedetti is based out of the Los Angeles area and supports clients across all of California. He joins...
