Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Agents Alliance Hires D’Arelli as Executive VP
Jul 6 2007 // California’s Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has hired Mike D’Arelli as executive vice president. D’Arelli is spearheading the Alliance’s grassroots advocacy program, and he is managing...
Five Uninsured, Unlicensed Contractors Arrested in South Lake Tahoe
Jul 6 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the results of the first undercover operation stemming from the Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe. The operation took place at a residence in the disaster area that...
Cocovatz Appointed Attorney-in-Charge of Calif. State Fund
Jul 6 2007 // Larry Cucovatz has been promoted to attorney-in-charge for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Special Litigation Unit (SLU). SLU is devoted to the recovery of damages involved in fraud-related...
Quintanilla Named Broker Manager for Calif. State Fund
Jul 5 2007 // Richard Quintanilla has been promoted to broker relations manager for California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Marketing Department. Quintanilla started his State Fund career in 1989 when he was hired as a...
Forsyth To Head Beecher Carlson Northern California Operations
Jul 2 2007 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has appointed David Forsyth to lead the company’s Northern California operations. Forsyth will be based in San Francisco, which expands...
Tahoe Fire Losses Could Reach $150 Million, Victims May Be Underinsured
Jul 2 2007 // Insured loss estimates for the Angora Fire burning in Lake Tahoe have been upped to $100 million to $150 million, according to Risk Management Solutions, a Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling company. However, the...
Calif. workers’ comp written premiums down 17%
Jul 2 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released the results of its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through March 31, 2007. According to the report: “California...
Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors
Jul 2 2007 // Language, legislative knowledge, and right insurance partner keys to wrapping up volatile market One of the many challenges general contractors — both commercial and residential — have faced over the past five...
Will new California construction codes lead to woes?
Jul 2 2007 // Historically, California has operated under the Uniform Building Code as modified by the state and adopted as the “California Building Code,” then adopted by local municipalities. Now, the International...
Calif. workers’ comp written premiums down 17%
Jul 2 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released the results of its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through March 31, 2007. According to the report: “California...
My New Markets
Jul 2 2007 // Security Guards Nuts & Bolts: Brownyard Group’s program for security guard firms has been expanded to include limits up to $5 million. Coverage includes general liability, excess/umbrella liability,...
Business Moves
Jul 2 2007 // Commerce West, Stonewood Agency The Commerce Group Inc.’s California-based subsidiary, Commerce West Insurance Co., has entered into a general agency agreement with Stonewood Insurance Services Inc. of Rancho...
Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors
Jul 2 2007 // One of the many challenges general contractors — both commercial and residential — have faced over the past five years involves subcontractor insurance. The subcontractor marketplace has always been volatile....
Report: Calif., Minn., N.J., N.C. Have Worst Traffic; N.D., S.C. Have Best Roads
Jun 29 2007 // Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual...
Calif. Agent Charged in Auto Fraud Scam
Jun 29 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that a California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigation has exposed the fraudulent activity of Newport Beach, Calif., resident and former insurance broker,...
Health Officials Warn Against Eating Onions from Oxnard Company
Jun 28 2007 // California health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain brands of diced yellow onions that could be contaminated with potentially deadly bacteria. The onions are sold by an Oxnard, Calif., distributor to...
Deerbrook Auto Leaving California
Jun 28 2007 // Deerbrook Auto insurance has announced it is pulling out of the California market. The company, which is owned by Allstate, submitted its application to withdraw from the state on May 31, a spokeswoman said. The company...
Beatriz Sanchez Named Program Manager for Calif. State Fund
Jun 28 2007 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund has promoted Beatriz Sanchez to program manager for State Fund’s Los Angeles Claims Services. Sanchez brings two decades of workers’ compensation experience to...
California Teams, Laws To Aid Victims in Lake Tahoe Fire
Jun 27 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has dispatched Damage Assessment and Disaster Fraud Response teams to Lake Tahoe to assist consumers with the losses from the Agora fire burning at Lake Tahoe. Meanwhile, a...
Vitamin Marketer USANA Hit With Proposed Class-Action Lawsuit
Jun 27 2007 // Independent distributors have filed a lawsuit accusing USANA Health Sciences Inc. of fraud and deception, the latest public-relations blow for the marketer of vitamins and nutritional supplements. The lawsuit, which seeks...
