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California Commissioner Wants Lower Workers’ Comp Rate Than Board

Nov 14 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Friday adopted an advisory average pure premium rate of $2.74 per $100 of employer payroll for workers’ compensation rates effective Jan. 1, 2015. The adopted amount is...

California Insurance Department Ready to Review TNC Policies

Nov 13 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said today his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will provide...

California Auto Insurance Fraud Sweep Nets Nearly 200

Nov 13 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent the last week serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts and...

TWFG Insurance Services Expands in Texas, California, and Washington

Nov 12 2014 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG Insurance Services is expanding with 15 more branch locations in Texas, two additional in California, and another in Washington, the company announced. TWFG Insurance specializes in products...

California County to Pay $3M in Jail Heroin-Withdrawal Case

Nov 12 2014 // A California jury has determined that San Diego County will have to pay $3 million to the parents of a heroin-addicted man who died of an asthma attack while detoxing in jail. The parents of Daniel Sisson sued the...

Report Finds Oversight Of California Nursing Home Chains Lacking

Nov 11 2014 // The California Department of Public Health does not try to determine how nursing home chains compare on key quality measures even though the information would be valuable and potentially life-saving for consumers, a...

‘Coffee Burns’ Lead to Fraud Charges Against California McDonald’s Customer

Nov 11 2014 // Selena Edwards, 38, of Victorville, Calif., was arrested and faces 21 felony counts of insurance and workers’ compensation fraud associated with an alleged fraudulent claim against McDonald’s for second-degree...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires SGB-NIA Insurance Brokers in California

Nov 10 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired SGB-NIA Insurance Brokers headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SGB-NIA provides retail property/casualty, risk management and employee...

University of California Helps Businesses Implement Cellphone Bans

Nov 10 2014 // Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are launching a new program to help businesses in the San Diego region tackle distracted driving. The program, funded by the California Office of...

Marsh & McLennan Acquires Nuwest Insurance Services in California

Nov 7 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired NuWest Insurance Services Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based property/casualty agency. NuWest generates roughly $2.4 million in revenue and specializes in providing P/C insurance...

EPIC Names Chan Chief Financial Officer in California

Nov 7 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Karman Chan chief financial officer in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. headquarters. EPIC’s current CFO, Michael Gonthier, will transition to a new position as...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Discovery Benefit Solutions in California

Nov 6 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Discovery Benefit Solutions Inc. in San Diego, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Discovery Benefit Solutions provides employee benefit consultation, management and...

EPIC Brings on Rusconi and Team with California Acquisition

Nov 5 2014 // Surety executive Sharon Rusconi and her team have joined Edgewood Partners Insurance Center in the Sacramento, Calif. office Rusconi’s book of business and other assets were purchased by EPIC from Lesron Insurance...

California Voters Reelect Jones, Soundly Reject Props. 45 and 46

Nov 5 2014 // Californians voted against two measures opposed by the insurance industry, and reelected incumbent Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. Election results from Tuesday show the Democrat Jones won reelection with 56.3 percent...

Lyft Rideshare Passenger Dies in California Crash

Nov 4 2014 // A spokeswoman for rideshare service Lyft says one of its drivers was involved in a multi-car crash in Northern California that left a man dead. California Highway Patrol officials said the driver was giving a ride to two...

Confie Seguros Acquires 2 New York, 1 California Brokers

Nov 4 2014 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance, has acquired three insurance brokerages, two in New York’s Buffalo area and one in California. Confie Seguros acquired The Insurance Market Agency Inc....

Family of Driver Killed in California Bus and FedEx Crash Sues

Nov 3 2014 // The family of the bus driver killed with nine others in a fiery collision with a FedEx truck in Northern California has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Sacramento Bee reported that the lawsuit seeks...

Experts: Insurance Distribution Future Online and Personalized

Nov 3 2014 // The future of insurance distribution was recently discussed at the CPCU Society’s annual All Industry Day in California. The day-long conference at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City last month included...

Southern California Docs Bribed to Use Unsafe Spine Screws, Suits Claim

Nov 3 2014 // A former Southern California hospital executive is being sued by more than two dozen people who claim he ran a scheme that bribed surgeons to implant counterfeit screws in their patients’ spines, causing pain and...

NOAA Says Don’t Expect a Sequel of Last Winter’s Polar Vortex

Nov 3 2014 // If you thought last winter was a horror show, with cold blasts from the polar vortex and a lack of California rain, here’s some good news: No sequel is expected this year, federal forecasters say. Mike Halpert of the...