Latest California Headlines
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Study: Homes in fire-risk areas of Sierra Nevada
Oct 8 2007 // More people are building homes in hazardous fire areas of the Sierra Nevada — increasing firefighting costs, according to a two-year study released by a conservation group. The Sierra Nevada is primarily in eastern...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // California clarifies surplus lines rules for retail agents California retail agent-brokers not transacting insurance on behalf of surplus line broker organizations are not required to follow a new law affecting surplus...
Calif. Supreme Court qualifies enforcement of class action waivers
Oct 8 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that class action waivers in arbitration agreements are unenforceable if a court determines “that a class arbitration would be a significantly more effective way of vindicating...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Calif. Benefits Broker BIS
Oct 5 2007 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired BIS Insurance Services Inc. located in Sacramento, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1979, BIS Insurance Services is an employee benefits insurance...
California To Raise Temporary Total Disability Rates
Oct 5 2007 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the temporary total disability rate for 2008 will increase to $916.33 per week. The maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rate will increase to...
Calif. Low Cost Auto Program Expanded to 20 Counties
Oct 3 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has expanded the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program (CLCA) in 20 additional California counties: Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Humboldt, Kings, Lake,...
Poll: Californians Don’t Act On Instinct For Financial Preparedness
Oct 3 2007 // A vast majority of Californians consider it their responsibility to keep their insurance current, but don’t bother to read their homeowners policies each year, a new study has found. More than two-thirds of those...
Nationwide Decreases Calif. Homeowners Rates
Oct 2 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance Company of America announced it is cutting homeowners insurance rates in California an average of 9.4 percent. The decrease takes effect today, Oct. 2, 2007. Nationwide is also...
Certified School Risk Managers Program Launched in Calif.
Oct 2 2007 // The Certified School Risk Managers (CSRM) Program, which originated in Texas in 2005, has expanded into California, with several CSRM courses scheduled in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas in coming months. The CSRM...
Calif. Drivers Could Face More Extensive Memory, Reflex Testing
Oct 2 2007 // Down the road, getting a California driver’s license could get a lot tougher. The state is considering using more extensive tests to evaluate a driver’s memory, reflexes and vision to identify people who...
Swift Selected as Claims Manager for Calif. State Fund
Oct 1 2007 // Evadne Swift has been promoted to claims manager for California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Oxnard state contracts. Swift joined the organization’s Arcadia, Calif., District Office in 1990 when...
Lead Leads to Lunchbox Recall in Calif.
Sep 26 2007 // California officials and a Los Angeles company were alerted last year that lunch boxes the firm imported from China contained high amounts of lead, an environmental group said. The state Department of Public Health warned...
Calif. State Fund Severs Ties with Group Administrator
Sep 25 2007 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has terminated its relationship with Western Insurance Administrators (WIA), State Fund Spokeswoman Jennifer Vargen has confirmed. Based in Long Beach, Calif., WIA...
Calif. high court rules discovery does not apply to reinsurance documents
Sep 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute authorizing limited discovery of a defendant’s insurance coverage does not include authorization to look into reinsurance agreements as part of facilitating a...
Chubb lowering homeowners rates in Calif. 18.4 percent
Sep 24 2007 // The California Department of Insurance has announced that Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is implementing a 18.4 percent homeowners insurance rate reduction that is expected to save Californians approximately $14.5...
Calif. urges governor to sign workers’ comp bill
Sep 24 2007 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law legislation that it said could encourage expansion of the workers’ compensation insurance market in...
CEA funding structure to be revamped under legislation sent to governor
Sep 24 2007 // By a wide margin, California lawmakers have approved a compromise between the California Earthquake Authority’s governing board and its participating homeowner insurers to replace a significant portion of the...
CEA funding structure to be revamped under legislation sent to governor
Sep 24 2007 // p:By a wide margin, California lawmakers have approved a compromise between the California Earthquake Authority’s governing board and its participating homeowner insurers to replace a significant portion of the...
Fraud Roundup
Sep 24 2007 // Everett man gets three years for arson A man who admitted torching a friend’s grocery store in Everett, Wash., in a plan by the two to collect insurance has been sentenced to three years in prison. Naveed Khan, 25,...
Calif. high court rules discovery does not apply to reinsurance documents
Sep 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute authorizing limited discovery of a defendant’s insurance coverage does not include authorization to look into reinsurance agreements as part of facilitating a...
