Latest California Headlines
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‘Key Figure’ in Organized Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Nabbed
May 22 2012 // Teddy Marks, 41, of Morgan Hill, Calif., who the California Department of Insurance is calling a “key figure” in an organized auto insurance fraud ring, has been arrested on two felony counts of insurance fraud...
Southern California Industrial Fire Causes $2.5 Million Damage
May 22 2012 // A fire at a 10-acre industrial area in San Bernardino County has caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage. Authorities say the fire erupted Saturday evening in a Fontana yard stacked with thousands of wooden pallets....
California Woman Gets Life For Murder Of Millionaire Lover
May 21 2012 // A Southern California woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the shooting death of her millionaire live-in boyfriend. Nanette Ann Packard was sentenced Friday in Orange County Superior Court for the...
Medical Messing up the Mix in California Workers’ Comp
May 21 2012 // If you hunt for answers among California’s myriad experts and those with informed opinions on workers’ compensation and ask them to name the biggest problem with the system, a majority will cite the rising...
$20M-Plus Crop Damage When Storm Shreds Central California Orchards
May 21 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...
The Health Workers’ Compensation
May 21 2012 // Injured But Still Standing Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either. The...
Family Sues California Mortuary Over Switched Bodies
May 18 2012 // A family is suing a mortuary over a body switch that resulted in a grandmother being buried in another woman’s clothes in a California cemetery instead of an above-ground crypt in Nicaragua. The lawsuit filed...
Crop Damage in Central California From Storm Tops $79M
May 18 2012 // San Joaquin Valley’s crop damage estimate from a hail storm last month has reached more than $79 million. The Fresno Bee reports that Kings County, among the hardest hit areas of the region, recently increased its...
SullivanCurtisMonroe Adds Kraatz as EVP in Southern California
May 18 2012 // Irvine, Calif.-based SullivanCurtisMonroe named Shawn Kraatz as executive vice president in its Irvine office. His primary responsibilities at SCM will include commercial sales management and marketplace leadership. Kraatz...
Safety Inspections Don’t Hurt Businesses; Do Lower Workers’ Comp Costs: Study
May 17 2012 // Random inspections of U.S. industrial workplaces lower the risk of workers being injured on the job and have no measurable negative effect on the companies inspected, according to a study in the journal Science. Companies...
California Legislator Calls for Hearing on Intervenor Fees
May 17 2012 // State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, has become the latest person to question intervenor fees, calling on the California Department of Insurance to review a state program that allows consumer groups to intervene in...
Woof! California Top Dog In Bites
May 16 2012 // California is the top dog in State Farm’s annual list of dog bite claims, and the state’s reported 527 dog bite claims and more than $20 million paid out in 2011 by the Bloomington, Ill.-based carrier...
Jones: Low Cost Auto Insurance Decrease Up To 9% Across California
May 16 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced that beginning May 15 the cost of an annual premium for the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program has decreased up to 9 percent across California’s 58...
Activists’ Study Doubts Safety at California Nuke Plant
May 16 2012 // A report commissioned by an environmental group warned Tuesday that running California’s San Onofre nuclear plant at reduced power would not resolve problems with badly worn tubing that have kept its twin reactors...
Golden Eagle Names Wallick Regional Vice President for Mid-California
May 15 2012 // San Diego, Calif.-based Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, named Peter F. Wallick to Regional Vice President for the company’s mid-California region. Wallick will be responsible...
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...
