Latest California Headlines
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Documents Show Negligence At California Mental Hospital
May 15 2012 // There are reports showing serious lapses in mental patient care at Southern California’s Metropolitan State Hospital. Internal investigative reports obtained by the Los Angeles Times show workers at the Norwalk...
Fire Destroys Townhouses in Santa Clara, California
May 11 2012 // Santa Clara, Calif., authorities say a fire that shot flames 10 stories into the air gutted three townhouses that were under construction, but did not cause any injuries. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the...
CEA, Red Cross Alliance Auction Raises $180K Disaster Readiness and Relief
May 10 2012 // Two months after joining forces to increase earthquake preparedness in California, the alliance between the California Earthquake Authority and the American Red Cross to put on a statewide online auction in April raised...
Honda Wins Reversal of Small Claims MPG Judgment
May 10 2012 // Honda Motor Co. has won the reversal of a $9,867 small-claims judgment awarded to an owner who claimed the Japanese automaker fraudulently overstated the fuel economy of her Civic hybrid car. The decision by California...
California Workers’ Comp Reform Taking Shape – Again
May 7 2012 // At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers’ compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour...
West Insurance Employment: California Job Market to Stay Soft
May 7 2012 // The phrase “Go west young man,” may not apply so well to the insurance industry in the nation’s most populous state. An examination of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Development Department data...
Replacement Costs Battle on the Road to Somewhere
May 7 2012 // Steve Young was somewhat upbeat when he was asked what he thought about the outcome of a long-brewing legal battle between three insurance associations and the California Department of Insurance. That upbeat attitude is...
Business Moves – West
May 7 2012 // SIAA Hampton, N.H.-based Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed nine new members in the Western United States. The new members include: Farling Insurance Agency of Litchfield Park, Ariz. Baldrica & Company of...
Too Old to Care
May 7 2012 // Put the following in the “I’ll be dead or too old to care” category. Drivers will save $68 billion in fuel costs when the Obama Administration’s 54.5 miles-per-gallon standard is fully implemented...
Appellate Court Dismisses Challenge To CDI Replacement Costs Regulation
May 3 2012 // The California Court of Appeal summarily dismissed a legal challenge by the Association of California Insurance Companies and the Personal Insurance Federation of California to homeowner protection regulations adopted by...
$20M-Plus Crop Damage When Storm Shreds Central California Orchards
May 3 2012 // A fierce spring storm that shredded Central California orchards last month caused more than $20 million damage in Kings County. Other San Joaquin Valley counties are still tallying the damage to crops when quarter-sized...
C.M. Meiers Legal Battle Goes On, Allegations Heat Up
May 3 2012 // With a quote from former president Ronald Reagan, an emergency motion from a sex toy business and increasingly acerbic accusations, the legal battle between the new and old owners of bankrupt agency C.M. Meiers continues...
Freeman of Freeman & Pearce Passes
May 2 2012 // Leonard Freeman, founder of Freeman & Pearce Insurance Agency Inc. in Orange, Calif., died at his Southern California home on Sunday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Freeman, a resident of Orange, was 73. He...
California Department of Insurance Wants to be ‘Liked’
Apr 26 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and the California Department of Insurance really want you to like them. CDI now has a Facebook page. The page was launched on Thursday, and had about a dozen “Likes” as soon...
Bill To Align California With Dodd-Frank Passes Committee
Apr 26 2012 // The California Senate Insurance Committee passed a law regarding reinsurers that would put the state in alignment with the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and a model law from the National...
Northern California City Agrees To Pay $150K in Sex Harassment Suit
Apr 26 2012 // Concord, Calif. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit by an employee who said she was sexually harassed by a female police officer. Wendy Schwartzenberger, a civilian community service officer, accused Lt. Robin...
Court Blocks Injunction On California Green Fuel Standard
Apr 25 2012 // A federal appeals court is allowing California to resume working on new regulations that mandate greener fuels for cars and trucks. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday overturned a federal judge’s...
Metlife, California Reach Settlement Near $500M
Apr 25 2012 // MetLife Inc. will pay nearly $500 million in a settlement involving more than 30 states that claimed it didn’t provide life insurance benefits to some of its policyholders, the company said Monday. The largest life...
California State Fund Cancels Layoffs
Apr 23 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is cancelling plans to lay off hundreds of workers, the Sacramento Bee is reporting. State Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe issued a message to staff that stated 1,300...
Associated General Contractors of California, Zurich Partner on Program
Apr 23 2012 // The Associated General Contractors of California (AGC-CA) and Zurich have collaborated to provide insurance services for its members. Under the agreement, Zurich in North America will provide AGC-CA members with insurance...
