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Report: Calif. Health Insurers Deny Policies over Jobs, Medications

Jan 9 2007 // Some Californians are refused individual health insurance policies even if they are in good health and can afford coverage because of their jobs and use of certain medications, according to a published report. Such...

Six Arrested in Calif. Insurance Fraud Scheme, 16 Others Wanted

Jan 8 2007 // Eighty-six people have been arrested on suspicion of bilking insurance companies out of more than $500,000, one of California’s largest ever insurance fraud cases, the district attorney’s office said. The 86...

Former California Lawmaker Gets High-Paying Appointment

Jan 8 2007 // Former California Sen. Liz Figueroa of Fremont, who lost a bid for her party’s nomination for lieutenant governor in June, will be paid $114,191 annually as a member of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals...

Poizner to Take Oath of Office as California’s New Commissioner

Jan 8 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner-elect Steve Poizner will take the oath of office today in front of 500 of Silicon Valley’s leaders at the Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose. Administering the oath of...

California Reaches Agreement with Insurers Over Legal Fees

Jan 8 2007 // The California Department of Insurance announced it has reached a resolution of its obligation to pay attorneys’ fees to two of the insurance companies that challenged the constitutionality of the landmark Holocaust...

Future predictions

Jan 8 2007 // People ring in the New Year with all sorts of traditions. New Yorkers drop a Waterford crystal ball in Times Square. Japanese families shoot off fireworks to keep evil spirits away. And in the South, a meal of cornbread...

People and Places

Jan 8 2007 // Zurich Financial Services Group appointed Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa head of government and industry affairs for General Insurance, and chief government affairs officer for North America. Both...

Fraud Roundup

Jan 8 2007 // Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State...

Do your construction clients know what they’re getting?

Jan 8 2007 // If you have construction clients, you may know there are several relatively new policy form options available. These options have increased in recent times, including the introduction of limited reporting periods, or...

California workers’ comp reforms working

Jan 8 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2006. The data seems to verify that workers’...

New Markets

Jan 8 2007 // Commercial Property Managers Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has expanded its real estate insurance program to offer property and liability coverage to commercial property owners and...

New Markets

Jan 7 2007 // Commercial Property Managers Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has expanded its real estate insurance program to offer property and liability coverage to commercial property owners and...

California workers’ comp reforms working

Jan 7 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2006. The data seems to verify that workers’...

Jan 7 2007 // People Zurich Financial Services Group appointed Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa head of government and industry affairs for General Insurance, and chief government affairs officer for North America....

Fraud Roundup

Jan 7 2007 // Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State...

Do your construction clients know what they’re getting?

Jan 7 2007 // If you have construction clients, you may know there are several relatively new policy form options available. These options have increased in recent times, including the introduction of limited reporting periods, or...

Editor’s Note: Future predictions

Jan 7 2007 // People ring in the New Year with all sorts of traditions. New Yorkers drop a Waterford crystal ball in Times Square. Japanese families shoot off fireworks to keep evil spirits away. And in the South, a meal of cornbread...

Calif. Announces $295 Million in Additional Distributions to Executive Life Policyholders

Jan 5 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that the Department of Insurance has won a dispute over the distribution of proceeds obtained through litigation on behalf of policyholders of the failed...

State Farm Drops Auto, Homeowners Rates Nearly $500 Million in Calif.

Jan 4 2007 // State Farm and California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that the company’s nearly 3 million auto and 1.4 million homeowners, renters and condo owners in California will see about $500 million in...

Calif. Workers’ Comp Commission Elects Wilson Chairman

Jan 3 2007 // The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation has elected Commissioner John C. Wilson chairman. Wilson is a contract accreditation consultant to the California Association of Joint Powers...