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Oct 27 2007 // Calif. passes flood legislation, rejects bill on child booster seats California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation designed to strengthen flood protections in California and approved a bill that would ban...
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Oct 27 2007 // ChoicePoint faces class action lawsuit it claims is baseless, association contemplates what action to take Two insurance producers have filed a class action lawsuit against ChoicePoint Inc., ChoicePoint Services Inc.,...
Insurers Rebut Claims Policies Will Be Cancelled Due to Wildfires
Oct 26 2007 // Insurance industry associations in California are hoping to quell concerns stirred up they say by the media and politicians that indicate homeowners’ policies would be cancelled because of the wildfires. The...
Most Evacuees Returning Home, Industry Surveys Damage
Oct 26 2007 // Many evacuees from the Southern California wildfires are being allowed to return to their homes, even while nine fires remain burning. According to the National Interagency Coordination Center, 416,511 acres have burned...
Fitch: Calif. Wildfires May Be Largest U.S. Wildfire Insured Loss Ever
Oct 25 2007 // Insured losses from wildfires continuing to spread in Southern California could likely become the costliest catastrophe insured loss event in 2007 and may potentially become the costliest wildfire catastrophe insured loss...
Santa Ana Winds Continue to Fuel Southern California Wildfires
Oct 24 2007 // Major fires continue to burn in Southern California, in some cases fueling new fires. There are currently 15 fires burning 414,013 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The large number of separate...
Jansen & Hastings Provides Defense Costs Cover for Calif. Construction Companies
Oct 23 2007 // Responding to increasing pressure of U.S. immigration law enforcement on California’s construction companies, San Francisco-based Jansen & Hastings has launched ConstructINsure. The product provides cover...
Telephone Numbers for Southern California Insurance Claims
Oct 23 2007 // The Insurance Information Network of California is collecting and updating contact and claims information from insurance carriers for the wildfire and will be updating them on its Website at www.iinc.org throughout this...
Southern California’s National Banks Near Wildfires Told They Can Close
Oct 23 2007 // The federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued a proclamation allowing national bank offices affected by the wildfires in southern California to close at their discretion. In issuing the proclamation,...
Insurance Industry Assessing Calif. Wildfires, Sends in Assistance
Oct 23 2007 // Insurance industry professionals are rallying the troops, bringing in claims professionals and others to assist in battling several major wildfires burning across Southern California. On Sunday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Calif. Agents Alliance Offers Assistance to Industry Profesionals
Oct 23 2007 // Joe Jimenez, president of the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers in California, has announced that the association is offering to assist anyone in the insurance industry who has been impacted by the numerous...
National Guard Sent in to Battle Southern Calif. Blazes
Oct 23 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has directed the California National Guard to make 1,500 guardsmen available to support the firefighting efforts in Southern California. The 1,500 guardsmen, including 200 troops...
Analyst: Calif. Fires Should Not Result in Large Insurer Losses
Oct 23 2007 // The 11 wildfires burning in Southern California should not result in large individual insurance company losses, according to a recent report by Goldman Sachs Analyst Thomas Cholnoky. Instead, he predicts nontraditional...
Calif. Holds Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing
Oct 23 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is holding a hearing today to receive testimony from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) regarding its pure premium rate recommendation of 5.2...
Insurers Say Calif. Wildfire Claims May Reach $500 Million
Oct 23 2007 // Exclusive Video California Wildfires: Insurance Industry Assesses Impact California Wildfires: Insurers On Site at Evacuation Centers The insurance industry is estimating that the damage from the wildfires in southern...
More than 600 Southern California Homes Lost to Unchecked Wildfires
Oct 23 2007 // Hundreds of homes were reduced to ashes Monday as wildfires blown by fierce desert winds raced across a huge swath of Southern California extending from Malibu to the Mexican border, forcing a quarter of a million people...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Bureau Recommends Increasing Rates 5.2%
Oct 22 2007 // California’s Workers’ Comensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September. In September, WCIRB...
California Wildfire Threatens Pepperdine U., Upscale Neighborhoods
Oct 22 2007 // A wildfire driven by powerful Santa Ana winds in California’s Malibu Hills on Sunday threatened a university, destroyed at least one home and forced the evacuation of hundreds more, authorities said. About 400...
Tapco Introduces Vacant Property and Builders’ Risk Programs in Calif.
Oct 18 2007 // Burlington, N.C.-based Tapco Insurance Services Inc. has introduced a vacant property and builders’ risk program to agents in California. TAPCO opened its California location in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2007. Program...
Engle Martin Opens Sacramento Office
Oct 17 2007 // Engle Martin & Associates Inc., a national independent insurance adjusting and claims administration firm based in Atlanta, is extending its presence in California by opening a Sacramento office to cover the northern...
