Latest California Headlines
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California Independent Agents Group Names New Associate Members
Apr 9 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of California announced its new 2015 associate members. The new associate members join a list companies that make up the IIABCal membership ranks. They are: Heartland Payment...
Jury Finds California Woman Guilty On Multiple Counts of Insurance Fraud
Apr 8 2015 // Jill Audette, 28, of San Diego, Calif., was convicted on five felony counts of insurance fraud and leaving the scene of a collision after falsely claiming her car was stolen and involved in a hit and run collision....
California Agent Nabbed on Bogus Bond, $100K Premium Theft Charges
Apr 8 2015 // Licensed insurance agent Lars Hedegaard, 63, of Danville, Calif. was arrested on two felony counts of grand theft. Hedegaard was doing business as Westport &Associates Insurance Services Inc. when he allegedly issued...
Nearly 500K License Applications in California Under AB60
Apr 7 2015 // California received nearly a half-million applications for driver’s licenses from immigrants in the country illegally in the three months since a new law took effect. Department of Motor Vehicles Director Jean...
Former California Agent Convicted of Stealing School Employee Identities
Apr 7 2015 // Magaly Morales, 51, a former life insurance agent, has been sentenced to three years and four months in state prison for stealing information from school district employees in 13 California counties. Morales last week...
WCIRB Submits Lower Mid-year Filing to California Department of Insurance
Apr 6 2015 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Monday submitted a July 1 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing advisory rates that average $2.46 per $100 of...
LP Insurance in California Names Cheta Workers Comp Consultant
Apr 6 2015 // LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Shalila Cheta as a workers’ compensation consultant in it risk management services division in California. Cheta has more than 20 years of experience in California workers’...
Frolich Joins Barney & Barney in California
Apr 6 2015 // Barney & Barney Insurance Services LLC has named Carla Frolich a client executive. Frolich will work in the firm’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif. offices. Barney & Barney’s Bay Area locations...
People – West
Apr 6 2015 // Encino, Calif.-based Republic Indemnity Company of America has named Allen Goodwin president. He succeeds Dwayne Marioni, who retired earlier in early March. Goodwin joined the company in 2011 as senior vice president of...
California Bill Fixes DMV Addendum Affecting Broker-Agents
Apr 6 2015 // After decades of broker-agents sharing driver motor vehicle records with insurers to underwrite and rate personal and commercial automobile policies, the California Department of Motor Vehicles late last year began...
Facebook Sued by California Woman for Discrimination, Harassment
Apr 6 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there. Chia Hong filed the lawsuit in mid-March in a San Francisco Bay...
NOAA: No Spring Drought Relief for California, Nevada, Oregon
Apr 6 2015 // Californians facing a fourth year of drought conditions — and some other parts of the West – shouldn’t count on any relief in the coming months. In California this doesn’t bode well for chances of a...
IICF Club100 in Hollywood Recognized Insurance Pros for Charity
Apr 6 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Club100 event at the Avalon Hollywood in Hollywood, Calif., on March 30 drew more than 200 industry professionals to help raise funds for charity. The annual IICF event...
The West Not Yet Fully Won for Ridesharing
Apr 3 2015 // On the heels of last week’s cross-industry compromise on insurance requirements for ride-sharing drivers, and with some legislative sessions drawing to a close, it’s a good time to take a look at where...
Mandatory Water Restrictions Ordered by California Governor
Apr 2 2015 // California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 1 2015 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance...
Lumber Liquidators Sued in California Over Formaldehyde Home Test Kits
Apr 1 2015 // Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of supplying consumers with unreliable kits to test for formaldehyde as federal authorities investigate reports the company sold flooring with high levels of the...
NAIC Adopts Ridesharing White Paper for State Policymakers
Mar 31 2015 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a white paper on insurance coverage for ridesharing that offers several suggestions for how state regulators should deal with insurance...
Experts: California Sex Bias Case Will Embolden Women Despite Verdict
Mar 31 2015 // Observers say a long legal battle over accusations that a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm demeaned women and held them to a different standard than their male colleagues will embolden women in the industry...
California Applicants Attorneys Want Action Based on Workers’ Comp Report
Mar 31 2015 // The California Applicants’ Attorneys Association on Tuesday called for action from Gov. Jerry Brown on reported delays and denials in the treatment of injured workers. CAAA’s call to action is in response to a...
