Latest California Headlines
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Bengals Want Workers’ Comp Cases Moved to Ohio
Sep 21 2009 // The Cincinnati Bengals have filed a lawsuit asking that the workers’ compensation claims of 31 former players be moved from California to Ohio. In its lawsuit filed in Cincinnati, the professional football team says...
California Insurance Agents Cater to Medical Marijuana Clinics
Sep 21 2009 // Ever since the Obama Administration said it would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded in California. Now, a few insurance agents are catering to them. Medical marijuana...
Calif. Ballot Measure Would Make Driver ‘Persistency’ Discount Portable
Sep 21 2009 // But Consumer Group Says Insurer’s Measure Would Harm More Than Help Insureds Insurer-backed Californians for Fair Auto Insurance Rates (CalFAIR) is promoting a voter initiative that would reward drivers who have had...
California Lawmaker Wants More Green Insurance Products
Sep 21 2009 // Bill Would Require Green Products, Offer Tax Credits Even As Industry Steps Up Its Own Development A bill recently introduced in California could encourage more ecologically friendly insurance policy products, putting the...
California Workers’ Compensation Drug Costs Up, Despite Reforms
Sep 21 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per claim are on the rise...
California Regulators Nix San Diego Utility’s Wildfire Plan
Sep 21 2009 // California regulators soundly rejected a utility company’s plan to cut electricity to a vast swath of San Diego bedroom communities when the weather is ripe for major wildfires. The California Public Utilities...
California Sets Rules for Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance
Sep 21 2009 // California has issued final pay-as-you-drive regulations, which will guide insurers offering consumers rates that are based on actual as opposed to estimated miles driven. The regulations allow insurers to offer discounts...
A.M. Best: New Regulations, Market Conditions and Financial Crisis Wreak Havoc on Workers’ Comp Line
Sep 21 2009 // Challenging market conditions, the financial crisis and the recession drove profitability downward for the U.S. workers’ compensation market in 2008. Changing regulatory conditions and reforms have also impacted the...
Employers Must Keep Company Picnics and Team-Building Activities Voluntary
Sep 21 2009 // When Fun ‘n Games at Work Take a Bad Turn Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack...
California Boy Charged In Second Fire
Sep 18 2009 // Authorities say they believe a 13-year-old boy set a 2,100-acre (850-hectare) wildfire last month in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, a fire that burned alongside the huge Station fire. Los Angeles County...
California to Probe Credit Rating Firms
Sep 18 2009 // California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued subpoenas on Thursday to Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings as he launched an investigation of whether they broke state law with...
California’s Poizner Campaigns in Silicon Valley
Sep 17 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner joined three other gubernatorial hopefuls speaking at a forum at Santa Clara University in front of about 450 members of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. The other...
NAIW Picks California Award Winners
Sep 17 2009 // The California Council of NAIW, International, announced several award winners at its recent annual meeting in Fresno. The AAMGA Award winner was Kathleen Kerstenbeck from San Diego Insurance Women. Kerstenbeck has been in...
California State Compensation Fund Names Coyne Information Officer
Sep 17 2009 // State Compensation Insurance Fund has named Shaun Coyne as its new chief Iiformation officer. Coyne will lead State Fund’s drive to build its information technology capabilities. Coyne has 29 years of experince in...
Mercury Insurance Billboard Sparks Controversy
Sep 16 2009 // The controversy over the Los Angeles billboard telling the public “You Can’t Trust Mercury Insurance” could soon become a lawsuit. Attorneys for Consumer Watchdog, the group that put up the message, have...
Health Rates Rose Fast in West
Sep 16 2009 // Family health care premiums rose an estimated three to five times faster than earnings for workers in Western states from 2000 through 2009, according to a report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA. In...
Southern California Home Prices Up
Sep 16 2009 // Southern California home sales rose for the 11th consecutive month in May as sales of $500,000-plus homes started to come back, according to the real-estate research company MDA Dataquick. The median price paid increased...
Lightning Sparks Fires in California
Sep 15 2009 // State fire officials say that more than 1,500 lightning strikes ignited 81 fires in northern and central California over the weekend, but most are contained. Department of Fire and Forestry Protection officials said Sunday...
California Insurance Agents Cater to Medical Marijuana Clinics
Sep 14 2009 // Ever since President Barak Obama came into office and his attorney general said the administration would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded. Now, a few insurance agents...
James Weidner, Cooperative American Physicians CEO, to be honored with City of Hope’s Spirit of Life Award, November 14
Sep 14 2009 // LOS ANGELES – City of Hope’s National Insurance Industry Council (NIIC) will honor James L. Weidner, chief executive officer of Cooperative of American Physicians Inc. (CAP), with The Spirit of Life®...
