Latest California Headlines
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Thoits in Northern California Adds Tillotson to Employee Benefits Practice
Feb 8 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based Thoits Insurance Service Inc. has named Bernie Tillotson senior vice president of employee benefits. Tillotson brings more than three decades of benefits and human resources expertise to his new...
McDermott Joins Champion Risk in Southern California
Feb 8 2012 // Del Mar, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services L.P., an affiliate of Wood, Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers, has hired Frank McDermott as a producer. McDermott, a licensed CPA, who previously owned his...
Professional Program Insurance in Southern California Taps Striniste
Feb 8 2012 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has hired Jay Striniste in the underwriting department. Striniste will be a senior underwriter focusing on the growth and development of program business with a...
California Independent Contractor Law May Be Liability for Agents, Brokers
Feb 7 2012 // A new California labor law designed to punish employers for misclassifying workers has broad legal language that can possibly impact insurance agents and brokers who knowingly advise clients on employee classifications to...
Report Card: California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones
Feb 7 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones marked his first full year in office last month by looking back on his and the California Department of Insurance’s accomplishments during 2011. Insurance Journal wants to know from...
Not All States Sign $25B Settlement Giving Banks Lawsuit Protection
Feb 7 2012 // A proposed mortgage settlement in the works for more than a year will move forward with more than 40 states joining the deal before a Monday deadline, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said in a statement. States had been...
Former Cal-OSHA Chief Defends Workplace Safety Program
Feb 6 2012 // The former chief of the California Occupational Safety and Health Division defended its Injury’s Illness Prevention Program following a study by think tank RAND Corp. showing the occupational safety program that...
Long-time California Lobbyist Looks to 2012 Legislation Affecting Insurance
Feb 6 2012 // John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood, principal of Norwood & Associates, has garnered recognition for his political work...
Close Look at Leak Due at California Nuke Plant
Feb 6 2012 // Inspectors are waiting for the 105 degree temperature inside a nuclear reactor to drop enough to make it safe for workers and equipment to get inside and inspect a tube leak that prompted operators to shut down a nuclear...
Declarations
Feb 6 2012 // Cornerstone “You have to be smart about your marketing, and I think it’s all about relationships. Without the relationship I think this business goes nowhere. I am not GEICO. I am not Progressive. I am...
Muslim Guard Gets $465,000 in California Harassment Suit
Feb 6 2012 // A San Francisco, Calif., jury has awarded $465,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and supervisors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member. The San Francisco Chronicle reported jurors added...
Out-of-Trust C.M. Meiers Brokerage in California Fetches $1.375 Million at Auction
Feb 3 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. was auctioned on Friday at a U.S. bankruptcy court near Los Angeles, with three competing bidders pushing the sales price to $1.375 million for the troubled...
C.M. Meiers Brokerage in Southern California on Trustee’s Auction Block
Feb 2 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. is being auctioned on Friday at a U.S. bankruptcy court near Los Angeles. Following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed on Jan. 9, the firm was placed in the hands of a trustee...
California’s Jones Announces Multi-State Effort on Climate Risk Disclosure
Feb 1 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday announced that the California Department of Insurance has joined with Washington and New York to require insurers to disclose the effects of climate change on their...
Study: California Workplace Safety Program Only Superficially Enforced
Feb 1 2012 // An occupational safety program that requires California businesses to eliminate workplace hazards only works when it’s adequately enforced. That revelation comes from Santa Monica, Calif.-based think tank RAND Corp.,...
California Salami Plant to Pay $700K For Ammonia Leak
Feb 1 2012 // The owners of a South San Francisco salami plant will pay nearly $700,000 and overhaul its refrigeration system as part of a federal judgment stemming from an ammonia leak that sickened almost four dozen people. The U.S....
Brazilian Blowout Maker Agrees To Labeling Changes
Jan 31 2012 // The maker of a popular line of hair-straightening products has agreed to alert consumers that two of its formulations emit formaldehyde gas, a possible carcinogen, California’s attorney general announced Monday. The...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Insurers Returns Improved in 2010
Jan 31 2012 // After declining for four consecutive years, California workers’ compensation insurers’ return on net worth showed signs of improvement in 2010. That’s according to the data from the National Association...
Consumer Group Charges Auto Insurers with ‘Disparate Treatment’ of Low Income Families
Jan 30 2012 // A consumer group on Monday issued a study that alleges “disparate treatment” of low-to moderate-income families by auto insurers nationwide. The group is asking state insurance commissioners to consider...
California Insurance Commissioner, Insurers Settle on Iran Investments
Jan 27 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and a group of insurers have settled litigation over insurer investments in companies doing business in Iran, it was announced on Friday. The terms of the settlement permit the...
