Latest California Headlines
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California Department of Insurance Takes Action Over Claims Handling
Mar 6 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has served an order to show cause, a statement of charges and a notice of penalty against the New Hampshire Insurance Co. and its authorized agent for claims processing, York Risk...
Brown Named VP of Claims Management for PowerGuard in Southern California
Mar 5 2012 // PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services named Hilton Brown as vice president of claims management. Brown has 22 years of experience, and specializes in claims management and client advocacy. Brown will oversee claims...
Yates Taps Louie for Northern California Office
Mar 5 2012 // Dotson Louie has joined Tustin, Calif -based managing general agent Yates in its Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Louie spent the past 11 years at a national wholesale MGA. Louie, who has a broad background in commercial...
Sharing Economy Calls For Insurance Innovation
Mar 5 2012 // How Insurance Helped Getaround Get Going Can technology positively impact a billion people in just 10 years? Possibly, if insurance is available. Consider taking a low-use personal automobile — which might sit idle most...
California Earthquake Authority Kicks Off Second Marketing Program for Agents
Mar 5 2012 // The business of selling earthquake insurance to homeowners may have just gotten a bit easier. The California Earthquake Authority has launched its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private...
Business Moves
Mar 5 2012 // Veracity, Stratus Pleasant Grove, Utah-based Veracity Insurance Solutions LLC has acquired Stratus Insurance Services Inc. Of particular interest to Veracity was Stratus’s collective experience in program management....
People
Mar 5 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named John Rossetti vice president of the employee benefits group in the firm’s Albuquerque, N.M. office. Rossetti was previously an account...
Smartphone Proof of Insurance Bill for California
Mar 5 2012 // A California legislator has introduced a bill to require auto insurers to issue proof of coverage verification to the mobile electronic devices of insureds if they request it. Assembly Bill 1708, authored by Assemblyman...
States Won’t Oppose Honda Hybrid Settlement
Mar 1 2012 // News sources are reporting that five states that were given a deadline to oppose a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and owners of its cars over fuel efficiency will not do so. The states are California,...
Investigative Unit to Target California’s Serial Labor Law Violators
Feb 29 2012 // California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su’s aim is to send a message to the state’s underground economy. The message is that the principals of companies with shady employment practices, such as those who try to...
Grade Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner
Feb 29 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...
California Commissioner Jones Announces Settlement for Earthquake Policyholders
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has settled a noncompliance action against GeoVera Insurance Co. following a 2010 investigation into consumer complaints concerning GeoVera’s underwriting practices. GeoVera...
California Department of Insurance Files Action Against Zurich
Feb 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance initiated an administrative enforcement action against two insurers – Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois – for using a type of...
Roush Joins B & B in Southern California
Feb 27 2012 // Stephanie Roush has joined Agoura Hills based B & B Premier Insurance Solutions Inc. as an account executive. Roush, who specializes in workers’ compensation and business insurance, joined the B & B after...
$100K Reward in Arson Attack At California Beef Processor
Feb 23 2012 // Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month’s arson attack California’s biggest beef processor. Sheriff’s officials announced the reward Tuesday. The...
Iowa Judge Orders California Porn Site to Pay $4M In Piracy Case
Feb 22 2012 // A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company – a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who pirate...
Grade California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones
Feb 22 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...
Wells Will Determine Groundwater Contamination in Southern California
Feb 22 2012 // Thirty wells are being installed in Burbank and Glendale in an effort to determine the extent of groundwater contamination. Small amounts of cancer-causing chromium 6 left behind by the San Fernando Valley aircraft...
California Legislator Introduces Smartphone Proof of Insurance Bill
Feb 21 2012 // A California legislator has introduced a bill to require auto insurers to issue proof of coverage verification to the mobile electronic devices of insured if they request it. Assembly Bill 1708, authored by Assemblyman...
California Earthquake Authority Kicks off Second Marketing Program for Agents
Feb 21 2012 // The business of selling earthquake insurance to homeowners may have just gotten a bit easier. The California Earthquake Authority has launched its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private...
