Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Appeals Court in California Reverses Itself in Armenian Insurance Suit
Dec 13 2010 // A federal appeals court last Friday reversed itself and now says the heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire can seek payment from companies that sold their relatives life insurance. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
Calif. Assemblyman Villines to Serve on Flood Protection Board
Dec 9 2010 // Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed former Assembly minority leader Michael Villines to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board Villines lost a bid for state insurance commissioner last month. The new...
Cal/OSHA Implements Updated Heat Safety Regulations
Dec 9 2010 // Cal/OSHA has implmented a new standard to protect employees who work with diacetyl, a chemical commonly used to give food flavorings a buttery taste. Cal/OSHA, a division of the California Department of Industrial...
Calif. State Fund Consolidating Business Operations
Dec 9 2010 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund, the state’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced it is consolidating its business operations, a move it expects will save nearly $200...
Mercury Insurance Cuts Calif. Auto Rates About 10%
Dec 9 2010 // Mercury Insurance announced a $72-million rate reduction for California drivers that includes a rate decrease that could reach up to 10% or more, a new group affiliation discount for university alumni, and the inclusion of...
California Employers See Lower Ex-Mods With New Rating Formula
Dec 8 2010 // California employers, by and large, saw lower experience modifications in 2010, thanks to changes to the experience rating formula. On Nov. 9, 2009, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner issued a decision...
Calif. Division of Workers’ Comp Names Appointees to Ethics Advisory Committee
Dec 8 2010 // California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) acting Administrative Director Carrie Nevans has appointed the Hon. Alice Vilardi as chair of the workers’ compensation ethics advisory committee, and...
Calif. Insurance Regulator Highlights His Achievements
Dec 7 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has issued a report card highlighting the progress of the Department of Insurance during the past four years, including his successful efforts to maintain solvency and...
Insurance Industry Outlook Improving, Slightly
Dec 6 2010 // The insurance industry is recovering from the economic crisis, but profits are nowhere near where they were prior to the crisis, and it will take California longer than other states to rebound, according to an industry...
California Self-Insured Group Declared in Default
Dec 5 2010 // The Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self insured group, has been declared in default due to insufficient funding required for continued operation, California’s Department of Industrial Relations...
Calif. Commissioner Rejects Increase in Workers’ Comp Cost Benchmark
Dec 5 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has rejected – for the third consecutive time – a workers’ comp rate filing submitted on behalf of insurers by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
California Delays Licensing Implementation Six Months
Dec 5 2010 // The California Department of Insurance is delaying for six months the implementation of a new licensing requirement for fire and casualty licensees that want to sell health insurance. AB 2782 would have required existing...
Brown & Brown Acquires Ruland & Mattingley Insurance Services Assets
Dec 2 2010 // C. Roy Bridges, regional president of Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc. and Lloyd S. Ruland III and Philip M. Ruland, shareholders of Ruland & Mattingley Insurance Services Inc. of Laguna Hills, Calif.,...
California Approves Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Programs
Dec 2 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has approved filings by the Automobile Club of Southern California and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance to offer pay-as-you-drive insurance. The PAYD Insurance program...
Calif. Regulators Announce 2011 Workers’ Comp Assessment Rates
Nov 30 2010 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has calculated the 2011 assessments that state law requires workers’ compensation insurers collect from policyholders to cover the budget of the state Division...
Calif. State Fund Names Clark Chief Operating Officer
Nov 30 2010 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has named Tom D. Clark as its chief operating officer. Clark, who assumes his new role on December 1, will replace Harrison D. Jerome, who retires at the end of the...
Allstate Cuts California Renter’s Rates 19.6%
Nov 29 2010 // Allstate Insurance Co. announced it is dropping the price California consumers pay for renter’s insurance coverage 19.6 percent statewide. The company is also cutting condo insurance rates in California 6 percent....
California Delays Licensing Implementation Six Months
Nov 24 2010 // The California Department of Insurance is delaying for six months the implementation of a new licensing requirement for fire and casualty licensees that want to sell health insurance. AB 2782 would have required existing...
Hub International to Acquire Assets of Byars Thompson Buchanan Insurance
Nov 23 2010 // Chicago-based Hub International Ltd., an insurance brokerage firm, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Byars Thompson Buchanan Insurance & Financial Services LLC, a Santa Maria,...
Calif. Court Rules Federal Proceedings Equivalent to CGL-Covered Lawsuit
Nov 22 2010 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that the term “suit” in a comprehensive general liability policy includes federal administrative adjudicative proceedings before an administrative law judge of the U.S....
