Latest California Headlines
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From Insurance to Candy
Feb 10 2008 // For former insurance pro, life really is a box of chocolates Although it’s been many years since See’s Candies President Brad Kinstler was at the helm of an insurance company, and even longer since he was...
Insurance Charity to Hold Club100 Dinner, March 6
Feb 10 2008 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization of insurance agents, brokers, and companies will hold its fourth annual Southern California Club100 Dinner on Thursday, March 6, 2008, at...
Declarations
Feb 10 2008 // Remaining Confident “We remain confident that there will be a day when medical marijuana patients are not discriminated against in the workplace.” —Safe Access attorney Joe Elford, reacting to a decision by...
Insurance Bills Die in Calif. Legislature
Feb 8 2008 // The Association of California Insurance Companies, an affiliate of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, reports that the following 2007 insurance-related bills missed the Jan. 31 deadline to pass out of...
Calif. State Fund Leaders Testify at Senate Hearing
Feb 7 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund President Janet Frank and Board Chair Jeanne Cain testified Wednesday at an informational hearing of the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee that was held to review...
Jamero Named Claims Manager at Calif. State Fund
Feb 6 2008 // Ronald Jamero has been appointed claims manager for the California State Fund’s State Contract Services, Rohnert Park. Jamero began his State Fund career when he was hired in 1991 as a claims adjuster for the...
ELM Brokers Open North Calif. and Orange Cty. Offices
Feb 5 2008 // ELM Insurance Brokers, Inc., has opened two new offices – one in Concord, Calif., which will be managed by Michele Epstein, and a second in Mission Viejo, to be run by Gregg E. Higgins. Epstein began her insurance...
Consumer Groups Challenge USAA Rate Filing
Feb 4 2008 // The Greenlining Institute is the most recent consumer protection organization to file a petition with the California Department of Insurance over a proposed rate filing by the United States Automobile Association....
IBA West Installs New Officers
Feb 4 2008 // H. Scott Kerns, president of Bay Risk Insurance Services of Alameda, Calif., was installed Friday as president of the Insurance Brokers & Agents of the West during the association’s 2008 Annual Business...
Allstate 4Q Profit Falls 37% as Calif. Wildfire Losses Top $300M
Jan 31 2008 // Hit by an increase in catastrophe losses, Northbrook, Ill.-based insurer Allstate Corp. saw its profit drop by more than 37 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006. The fourth quarter net...
Insurance Charitable Foundation to Hold Club100 Dinner, March 6
Jan 30 2008 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization of insurance agents, brokers, and companies will hold its fourth annual Southern California Club100 Dinner on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at...
Calif. Insurance Dept. and DHMC Target PacifiCare for Poor Claims Handling
Jan 30 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and Cindy Ehnes, director of the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), announced Tuesday a joint action against PacifiCare companies, owned by UnitedHealth...
Calif. WC State Fund Appoints Simons Marketing Manager
Jan 29 2008 // Gina Simons has been appointed operations manager of the California State Fund’s marketing department. Simons began her workers’ compensation insurance career in 1988 as a marketing consultant in the State...
Ascension to Acquire Calif.-based Pan American Underwriters
Jan 28 2008 // Ascension Insurance Inc. signed an agreement to acquire the assets of the California -based insurance agency, Pan American Underwriters Inc. Pan American is a wholly owned subsidiary of PAULA Financial (Pink Sheets:PFCO)....
Southern Calif. Braces for Another Storm; Mudslides Feared
Jan 28 2008 // Winter storms continued to soak Southern California and meteorologists warned that wetter weather was on its way. Up to 2 inches of rain fell overnight in valley and coastal areas and about double that in the mountains,...
Calif. High Court Rules Employers Can Fire Workers Using Medical Marijuana
Jan 28 2008 // Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally prescribed, the California Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with U.S. law...
California AG Approves Uninsured Motorist Ballot Initiative
Jan 27 2008 // Commissioner Poizner says measure needed to protect public safety, insurance costs A proposed measure that would require California state and local law enforcement officers to remove the license plates of any vehicle...
It Figures
Jan 27 2008 // $62,000 Los Angeles-based Farmers Group Inc. announced it gave $62,000 to the La Jolla Band of Mission Indians to help rebuild after the Southern California fires of 2007. Farmers Executive Vice President of Field...
Calif. Agents Brace for Rising Workers’ Comp Rates
Jan 27 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving, either for themselves or for their clients, in 2008. The study...
Southern California Wildfire Losses Could Top $2 Billion
Jan 27 2008 // The California Department of Insurance announced that 37,117 claims have been filed since the wildfires broke out in Southern California in October 2007, and 1,531 of those claims are known to be total losses. Insurers...
