Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Firm Yates Hires Two
Sep 10 2009 // Yates and Associates has announced the hiring of two new employees in its property and casualty underwriting department: Laura Ruetz, ASLI, AU, and Sheila Webb. Both will be responsible for new business development. The...
California Issues Regulations for Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance
Sep 10 2009 // California’s insurance commissioner, Steven Poizner, has issued final pay-as-you-drive regulations, which will enable insurers to offer consumers rates that are based on actual miles driven as opposed to estimated...
Study Shows California Workers Compensation Drug Costs Up
Sep 10 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms and a pharmacy fee schedule in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Sep 7 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
California Court: Assault in Self-Defense Not An Insurance ‘Accident’
Sep 7 2009 // Does a liability insurer have a duty to defend an insured who deliberately commits assault and battery in self-defense? According to the Supreme Court of California, the answer is no, because the act of having to defend...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Fund Sale Faces Many Hurdles
Sep 7 2009 // In a move that was not completely unexpected, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner will file a lawsuit to have the $1 billion sale of State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) assets declared...
Calif.’s Employers Direct Now Wants Agents
Sep 7 2009 // Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, direct writing Employers Direct Insurance Co. changed its tune and said it is...
Rates, Claim Frequency Still Declining in Workers’ Comp; Medical Costs Rise
Sep 7 2009 // States Are Not Equal in Handling Worker Injuries Prices for workers’ compensation insurance in the United States declined in 2008 and, in general, that trend is likely to continue in throughout 2009, according to the...
California Wildfire Called Arson
Sep 4 2009 // As of early Friday morning, the Station wildfire that is burning through the hills above Los Angeles was about 40 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. Fire officials...
California Bill Calls for Green Insurance
Sep 4 2009 // A bill just introduced in California could encourage more ecologically friendly insurance policy products, putting the state again at the fore of pushing, and leading, for greener public policies. The bill, which has been...
AAU Comp Introduces Auto Repair Industry Program in California
Sep 3 2009 // AAU Comp, which launched in July this year, is introducing its first product, a workers compensation program for the auto repair and service industry that will be based out of its new location in El Segundo, Calif. The...
Hurricane Jimena Swirls Past Southern Baja Resorts
Sep 3 2009 // Hurricane Jimena weakened to a Category 2 storm as it bore down on the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Jimena’s maximum sustained winds decreased late Tuesday to near 110 mph (175 kph) and the...
Blunt-Talking AIG CEO Benmosche’s True Passion Is Wine
Sep 3 2009 // AIG’s new CEO, Robert Benmosche, has sparked just about as many headlines as one executive can in the past few weeks — and all while on holiday at his villa in Croatia looking over the Adriatic. He has been...
California’s Workers’ Comp Fund Offers Aid
Sep 3 2009 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced Tuesday that it will extend credit to policyholders who have suffered a financial loss or business disruption caused by several wildfires that are ravaging...
Southern California Fire Slowed by Weather
Sep 3 2009 // Firefighters made more progress Wednesday morning against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles, with another day of cooperative weather providing a big assist to beleaguered fire...
Evacuations Lifted in California’s San Bernardino
Sep 3 2009 // Authorities have lifted mandatory evacuation orders for nearly 3,000 homes in San Bernardino County as they get a handle on two wildfires. A state fire spokesman said Wednesday residents of unincorporated Oak Glen and the...
California Auburn Fire Contained
Sep 2 2009 // The fire by Auburn in Northern California that consumed 63 houses and three businesses has been completely contained, while devastated property owners are sifting through ashes and rubble. The California Department of...
L.A. Fire May Last Weeks
Sep 2 2009 // A relentless wildfire near Los Angeles raged Tuesday with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering flames crackled close to foothill neighborhoods in the path of the...
California Fire Still Rages in L.A. Mountains
Sep 1 2009 // A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, and threatened 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex and...
Farmers Gives California Fire Victims Assistance Number
Aug 31 2009 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies asks its customers suffering damage or ordered to evacuate because of the widespread wildfires in Northern and Southern (Los Angeles County areas), to immediately contact Farmers’...
