Latest California Headlines
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Fires Over, But Calif. Should Assess Flood Risks
Oct 30 2007 // Trusted Choice agents, along with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) and IBA West, have teamed up to aid California residents in need in the aftermath of the devastating...
Avocado Crops Hard Hit by Wildfires
Oct 30 2007 // Wind-driven wildfires that torched Southern California have charred fruit orchards, wilted flowers and littered the ground with avocados, delivering a devastating blow to area farmers already reeling from a deep winter...
Calif. Low Cost Auto Program Implemented Statewide
Oct 29 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced his final determination of need for the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program in Alpine, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Inyo, Lassen, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono,...
Calif. governor signsworkers’ comp bill
Oct 27 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that is expected to lower workers’ compensation rates for small businesses and increase competition among insurance companies. Existing law requires...
Calif. workers’ comp reforms working better than expected, Gov. decides not to raise benefits
Oct 27 2007 // Reforms to California’s worker’s compensation system enacted since 2002 “have had a substantial impact on system costs,” according to a new report by the state Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
People
Oct 27 2007 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Glendale Legal Unit B appointed Katherine Harvey-Edwards to attorney-in-charge. Harvey-Edwards brings 16 years of legal experience to her new post. She was hired as...
Assessing and managing wildfire risk
Oct 27 2007 // This summer, much of the western United States was in flames. Wildfires spurred by above-normal spring and summer temperatures, and one of the worst droughts in decades charred several million acres across the 11 western...
News Currents
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...
News Currents
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...
