Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Jan 23 2012 // John F. Finston has accepted an appointment to be deputy commissioner for Corporate & Regulatory Affairs at the California Department of Insurance. Finston was the head of SNR Denton’s insurance regulation...
Outpatient Costs Higher in States Without Fee Schedules
Jan 23 2012 // States without fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to a workers’ compensation study. The study found that significant variations...
Business Moves
Jan 23 2012 // Bolton & Company, Pacific General Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Company has acquired Pacific General Insurance Services, an independent insurance agency providing insurance services in the San Gabriel Valley...
Auto Insurance Discount Act Qualifies For California Ballot
Jan 20 2012 // The Secretary of State has verified the 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act will qualify for the November ballot. The initiative had the 504,760 signatures required to place the initiative on a statewide ballot. The...
Jones: California Workers’ Comp Filings Show Companies Using Advisory Rates
Jan 19 2012 // A majority of companies are using California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ approved advisory pure premium rates in their rate filings for 2012, and the result is a combined increase of 2.8 percent for companies,...
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones: Year One Poll
Jan 19 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones marked his first full year in office this week by looking back on his and the California Department of Insurance’s accomplishments during 2011. “A little over a year ago, I...
California Woman Pleads Guilty To Killing 4 in DUI Crash
Jan 19 2012 // A woman who killed four people in a drunken crash near a San Diego County casino has pleaded guilty and agreed to spend 18 years in prison. Twenty-seven-year-old Deanna Fridley entered pleas Tuesday to gross vehicular...
Western Insurance Forms On Point Risk Solutions in Southern California
Jan 19 2012 // San Diego, Calif.-based Western Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty holding company, has formed On Point Risk Solutions. On Point Risk Solutions, also in San Diego, provides an array of property/casualty services...
California School Reopens After Arson Fire
Jan 19 2012 // A San Diego, Calif. elementary school reopened Wednesday, two days after an arson fire that caused $600,000 in damage. The blaze shortly before midnight Monday at Alice Birney school in University Heights damaged the...
Fire Causes $600,000 Damage at California School
Jan 18 2012 // A fire at a San Diego, Calif. elementary school has caused an estimated $600,000 in damage. Classes have been canceled Tuesday at Alice Birney school in the University Heights neighborhood. The fire was reported at around...
Walmart Seeks End to Refiled Gender Bias Lawsuit
Jan 18 2012 // Women who refiled a gender discrimination lawsuit against Walmart Stores Inc. have failed to come to grips with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their nationwide class action against the company, Walmart...
Court Denies Class Action Suit Against American Honda
Jan 13 2012 // American Honda Motor Co. won a legal victory as a divided U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a nationwide lawsuit over a brake system used in some Acura RL vehicles should not have been certified as a class-action. The...
Jones Announces Insurance Diversity Task Force for California
Jan 12 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday announced the formation of an Insurance Diversity Task Force to make recommendations about diversity in the insurance industry, including the diversity of corporate governing...
Direct-Link Acquires Southern California Firm Cumbre
Jan 12 2012 // Direct-Link Holding Group LLC has acquired Cumbre Insurance Services’ commercial insurance division in Ontario, Calif. Cumbre Inc. operates both a commercial insurance and public entity division. Cumbre’s...
Unitedhealthcare Of California And LISI Team Up
Jan 11 2012 // UnitedHealthcare and LISI, a San Mateo, Calif.-based medical insurance brokerage, are joining in a partnership to bring health benefits packages to small businesses in California. LISI will make available UnitedHealthcare...
UPA Insurance Brokers in Northern California Acquired by Risk Strategies
Jan 11 2012 // Millbrae, Calif.-based UPA Insurance Brokers has been acquired by Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Boston. The acquisition was announced on Wednesday. Terms of...
Outpatient Costs Higher in States Without Fee Schedules: Workers’ Comp Study
Jan 11 2012 // States without fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to a workers’ compensation study. The study found that significant variations...
California Department of Insurance: $54 Million Recovered in 2011
Jan 10 2012 // The California Department of Insurance recovered more than $54 million for consumers through consumer complaint investigations and market conduct examinations of insurance companies in 2011, California Insurance...
Arson Suspected At California’s Biggest Beef Processor
Jan 10 2012 // Investigators say arson is suspected in a blaze that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California’s Harris Farms cattle operation, the state’s largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef...
People
Jan 9 2012 // The board of directors of the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) re-elected Alaska Insurance Director Linda Hall as NIPR president during its Dec. 13, 2011, meeting in Chicago. Hall has been a member of the NIPR...
