Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Prosecutors to Fight ID Theft, Privacy Violations
Jul 30 2007 // In an effort to bolster personal privacy and intellectual property rights, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that District Attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego will begin receiving funds...
Task Force to Probe Allegations Involving Former SCIF Employees
Jul 30 2007 // The California Highway Patrol, California Department of Insurance, and San Francisco District Attorney’s Office jointly announced the formation of a task force to investigate allegations of potential misconduct by...
Calif. Launches Online Service To Apply for Agency License
Jul 25 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the Department of Insurance has created an online service for organizations applying for an insurance agency license. The online filing service will streamline the...
Golden Eagle Insurance Honors Five Calif. Appointees with Chairman’s Award
Jul 24 2007 // San Diego-based Golden Eagle Insurance, a regional company of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, has honored five of its appointed agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award, which is presented...
Calif. State Bar Considers Malpractice Insurance Disclosure
Jul 23 2007 // The California State Bar is considering whether lawyers in the state should be required to disclose whether they have malpractice insurance. State Bar President John Van de Kamp has appointed a task force to study whether...
Report: N.C. among states with worst traffic, S.C. among best roads
Jul 23 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. workers’ comp earthquake losses could exceed $150 million annually
Jul 23 2007 // California workers’ compensation insurers will need $180 million annually to pay for workers’ compensation losses induced by earthquakes, according to a recently released study by the Workers’...
Fraud Roundup
Jul 23 2007 // Five contractors arrested in Lake Tahoe 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...
Business Moves
Jul 23 2007 // Edgewood Partners, Calco Insurance Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a California retail property and casualty and benefits insurance brokerage firm announced an agreement in principle has been reached with Calco...
Calif. low cost auto insurance program expanded to nine counties
Jul 23 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced his determination to expand the state’s Low Cost Auto Insurance Program to Solano, Marin, Santa Cruz, Madera, Napa, Yolo, Mendocino, Kings and Lake counties....
Regional companies provide a competitive advantage
Jul 23 2007 // Agents need to build a portfolio of carriers to meet their clients needs, and that should include both regional and national carriers, according to Rick Quagliaroli, president and CEO of Strongwood Holdings Insurance Corp....
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Tahoe Fire losses could reach $150 million, victims may be underinsured Insured loss estimates for the Angora Fire that burned south Lake Tahoe have been upped to $100 million to $150 million, according to Risk Management...
Calif. Earthquake Authority pushes for industry assessments
Jul 23 2007 // Southbound Highway 880 traffic was routed around a damaged section of Highway 580 in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 30, 2007. Crews sifted Monday through the wreckage of a collapsed freeway overpass, and emergency response...
Study: Calif. workers’ comp reforms working
Jul 23 2007 // California experienced the largest decrease in average workers’ compensation costs per claim among 14 states, after years of double-digit cost growth and in the wake of reforms that took effect 2003 through 2006,...
Figures
Jul 23 2007 // $5 million Amount the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services is fining nine insurers in the American International Group for numerous violations of Oregon insurance and workers’ compensation laws, some...
Big California Wildfire Still a Potential Threat to Rural Homes
Jul 20 2007 // California firefighters have been working to stop a 28,346-acre wildfire from spreading in rugged Central Coast wilderness and posing a threat to rural homes, while rain aided the battle against an 8,250-acre forest fire...
Calif. State Fund Names Attorney-in-Charge
Jul 20 2007 // Katherine Harvey-Edwards has been promoted to attorney-in-charge for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Glendale Legal Unit ‘B.’ Harvey-Edwards brings 16 years of legal experience to her...
Calif. Names Girion Deputy Commisson of Rate Regulation
Jul 20 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that Woody Girion will serve as the new deputy commissioner of rate regulation at the Department of Insurance effective August 1. Girion replaces former Rate...
Two Arrested for Vehicle Arson, Fraud
Jul 20 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that CDI Urban Auto Theft Task Force investigators arrested two suspects on charges of arson of property, falsely reporting a crime and filing fraudulent insurance...
Tahoe Fire Shows Need for Better Land Planning, Fire Chief Says
Jul 20 2007 // The wind-driven inferno that swept through a South Lake Tahoe subdivision last month and destroyed more than 250 homes is evidence that state fire officials must become more involved in local planning decisions,...
