Latest California Headlines
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Murray Oversees Additional Territories
Sep 7 2011 // Irvine, California, September 2011 – The Insco Dico Group announced that Steve Murray, Regional Vice President, now oversees a significant portion of their nationwide branch network. In addition the offices under his...
California City Warned It May Lose Its Insurance Coverage
Sep 7 2011 // A Southern California city has been told that it could lose its insurance if city officials and staff don’t start getting their act together soon. That was the warning from the California Joint Powers Insurance...
California’s Poms & Associates Promotes Gilman to EVP
Sep 6 2011 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. in Woodland Hills, Calif., has promoted Seth Ford Gilman to executive vice president, a position at which Gilman will oversee the property/casualty and personal lines divisions,...
Promotions for Williamson and Young
Sep 6 2011 // Irvine, California, September 2011 – The Insco Dico Group announced the promotions of Blaine Williamson to Senior Vice President of Field Operations and Dan Young to Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting...
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Sep 5 2011 // AIPSO has appointed Roberta Haskins to serve as the manager of its Western Region, which includes the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan (CAARP), the California Low Cost Program, and the Western Association of...
California Initiative Will Ask Voters to Expand Persistency Discounts
Sep 5 2011 // The California Attorney General’s office last month released a title and a summary of a proposed ballot initiative that would allow automobile insurers to offer “persistency discounts” to new...
California Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Compensation Payment Increases
Sep 5 2011 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that cost of living adjustments in total permanent disability cases are to be calculated starting the Jan. 1 after the injured worker started collecting his or her payments. The...
California High Court Rejections of Appeals Expected to Raise Costs for Workers’ Compensation System
Sep 5 2011 // The California Supreme Court has refused to hear several appeals on cases this year that threaten to bring higher costs for workers’ compensation and greater uncertainty for insurers. The Supreme Court announced on...
California Earthquake Authority Bond Issue a ‘First Step’
Sep 5 2011 // Officials with the California Earthquake Authority said that their recent $150-million bond issue is just a first step in diversifying their risk so that they can expand earthquake coverage in the state. “It is just...
Settlement Reached in California Roller Coaster Injury
Aug 29 2011 // Knott’s Berry Farm has reached a confidential settlement with a 12-year-old boy who was injured on its Xcelerator roller coaster when a cable broke and ripped into his leg. The Los Angeles Times reported that Kyle...
California Surfboard Maker Faces Product Liability Claim
Aug 29 2011 // A surfer has filed a product liability lawsuit against a California surfboard manufacturer because the too-sharp fin sliced his leg. The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed by recreational surfer Tom Gregg contends...
California Regulator Wins Case Involving Sale of Life Insurer
Aug 26 2011 // A California state appeals court has upheld a state regulators’ refusal to approve the sale of a California insurance company to a French-owned company. The decision upheld Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’...
California Court Denies Appeal of Closely-Watched Workers’ Comp Case
Aug 25 2011 // The California Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of a case many workers’ compensation insurers and businesses were hoping would be reversed. Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that it was not going to review...
Is It Time to Consider Earthquake Insurance?
Aug 25 2011 // Earthquakes and California go together. Or at least that’s what most of the country thought until Tuesday’s East Coast earthquake centered in Virginia. Reports of the earth moving were widespread, coming from...
Calif. Court Rules on Benefit from Negotiated Rate Differential
Aug 24 2011 // California’s highest court has ruled that accident plaintiffs may only recover economic damages equal to the amount paid by their insurer and not the higher amount billed. The opinion stated that “the...
Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against California Cop
Aug 24 2011 // A federal appeals court has reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against a Madera police officer who authorities say mistakenly pulled out her handgun instead of her Taser before shooting a suspect in her patrol car. This...
Allstate Launches Identity Theft Coverage in Calif.
Aug 23 2011 // Approximately 9 million Americans annually are victims of identity theft, spending millions of hours resolving problems associated with having their identity stolen. Allstate Insurance Co. has launched identity theft...
California’s WCIRB Files Newly Benchmarked Rate
Aug 23 2011 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has submitted its January 1, 2012 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) containing pure premium rates proposed to be...
California Data Breach Shows Risk of Online Health Records
Aug 23 2011 // Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the...
California Lawyer Sentenced in Huge Auto Fraud Case
Aug 22 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that Susana Ragos Chung, 60, a Los Angeles area based attorney has been sentenced in Alameda Superior Court for Insurance Fraud. Chung entered pleas of no...
