Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NATIONAL COVERAGE
Aug 21 2008 // S&P Says Nationals Safe, While Midwest- Focused Insurers at Risk N2 | Washington Report House Subcommittee Moves Key Federal Insurance Regulation Bills N4 | Home Insurers Bitten by $350 Million in Dog Claims Average...
Majority of California Wildfires Contained, 100 Homes Destroyed
Aug 21 2008 // The California wildfires, with smoke drifting out to the Pacific Ocean (L), are seen in this NASA satellite image released July 9, 2008. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES). More than 1,400 fires that burned as part of...
California Fines 18 Hospitals for Care Problems
Aug 20 2008 // Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations, including leaving surgical instruments inside patients and causing the death of one patient by improperly inserting an intravenous catheter. The...
Conduit Insurance Offers Mini-Wrap in California, Arizona, Nevada
Aug 19 2008 // Conduit Insurance Services of Irvine, Calif., has a new residential wrap market – “mini-wrap” available in California, Arizona and Nevada. The program is designed for smaller single-family and...
Insurance Staffing: Industry Needs “Innovative Mindset”
Aug 19 2008 // Looking into the future of the insurance industry, Julie Davis, executive vice president for Aon Corp. said there are internal challenges to climbing the corporate ladder with an innovative mindset. Speaking at a recent...
Simone Rejoins Aon Risk Services of Southern California
Aug 19 2008 // Aon Risk Services of Southern California, a unit of Aon Corp., announced that Philip A. Simone has joined the firm as senior vice president for Aon Risk Services. He will be based in Irvine, Calif. Simone brings more than...
California Legislature Passes Agent-Broker Bill
Aug 15 2008 // Assemblyman Joe Coto’s Assembly Bill 2956, which will clarify the duties of an agent versus those of a broker, has passed both the California Assembly and Senate. The bill will now be held at the Assembly desk until...
Calif. High Court Bans Employee Noncompete Pacts
Aug 14 2008 // The California Supreme Court has upheld the state’s strict ban on most employee noncompetition agreements, ruling that companies cannot in any way limit a former employee’s ability to ply his trade. The high...
California Proposes 16% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Aug 14 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California indicated it plans to submit a filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending a 16 percent increase in pure premium rates effective...
California Broker Stabbed by ’40-Year-Old Virgin’ Actor
Aug 14 2008 // An actor who appeared in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” has been charged with attempted murder after his girlfriend was stabbed more than 20 times, authorities said. Shelley Malil, 43, remained in custody on $2...
Widow Awarded $8.5M in California Malpractice Case
Aug 12 2008 // A jury has awarded $8.5 million to the widow of a Modesto, Calif., man who died on the day a surgeon was going to discharge him from the hospital. Because of medical malpractice limits, 38-year-old Holly Stinnett likely...
Topa Insurance Offers Garage Package in California
Aug 12 2008 // Topa Insurance Co. has a new garage package for auto service and repair shops in California. The package includes garage liability, garage keepers legal liability and property targeting a variety of classes including...
Aon Risk Services Adds Rover to Southern California Brokerage
Aug 11 2008 // Aon Risk Services, the retail brokerage and risk management unit of Aon Corp., announced Stuart Rover has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as senior account executive. In this role, Rover is responsible for...
California Senate Committee Passes Pay-As-You-Drive Legislation
Aug 8 2008 // Legislation that would allow insurers to more accurately base auto insurance premiums exactly on how many miles a motorist drives passed the California Senate Appropriations Committee. Proposition 103 requires insurers to...
Court: California Homeowners Not Liable for Tree Trimmer’s Death
Aug 8 2008 // A homeowner is not vicariously criminally liable for the misdemeanor acts of a tree trimmer, the California Supreme Court decided. According to Maria Dolores Ramirez V. Thomas Nelson, a worker for an unlicensed contractor...
California Appeals Court: Retailers Must Provide Disabled Access
Aug 6 2008 // The Court of Appeal of California has ruled that a retailer must remove architectural barriers that prohibit disabled individuals from accessing merchandise, or must adopt alternative methods for making its merchandise...
Mercury General Increases Q2 Net Income 1.8%, Names Marcon to Board
Aug 5 2008 // Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. announced its second quarter results for 2008. Net income was $70.7 million, an increase of 1.8 percent from the $69.5 million earned in the same quarter in 2007. However, net...
Mid-Year 2008: Securities Lawsuit Filings Remain Up
Aug 4 2008 // Subprime and Credit Crisis Filings Show No Sign of Abating Is litigation stemming from the subprime- and credit crisis-related activity increasing directors’ and officers’ insurance premiums? Despite the steady...
Predicting Ground Motion: The Next Generation
Aug 4 2008 // New Seismic Models Make Ground Motion Predictions More Accurate The accuracy of ground motion prediction from shallow events in the active tectonic regions in the Western United States, such as California, has improved,...
People
Aug 4 2008 // Aon Re Global named Jan-Oliver Thofern CEO and chairman of its German subsidiary, Aon Ruck. Thofern was previously a member of the company’s executive committee. He succeeds Holger Gaserow, who plans to retire at the...
