Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Citrus Growers Face Big Losses as Cold Snap Continues
Jan 16 2007 // California’s $1 billion citrus industry suffered record-low temperatures this past weekend, and agriculture officials continue to worry about widespread crop destruction. Counties where most of the state’s...
Burns & Wilcox To Offer Commercial Earthquake Coverage
Jan 16 2007 // Burns & Wilcox, a Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, is offering of a new commercial “all risks” property program that includes...
California Hosts Hearing on Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedule
Jan 12 2007 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation will be holding a public hearing on the Official Medical Fee Schedule – Physician Fee Schedule regulations on Jan. 24 in Los Angeles. The public hearing has...
California Community Colleges Offer Entry-Level Insurance Classes
Jan 11 2007 // The California Insurance Careers Program and the state’s community college system are offering insurance classes online and on select college campuses. Classes are being geared to prospective or current entry level...
101 Indicted in Calif. Insurance Fraud Sting
Jan 11 2007 // A two-year undercover sting operation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has resulted in 101 indictments, of which 88 have been arrested to date. Following a tip from a confidential informant, an...
California Community Colleges Offer Entry-Level Insurance Classes
Jan 10 2007 // Employers help staff gain college credit with valuable insurance classes. San Francisco, CA — The California Insurance Careers Program and the state’s community college system are offering insurance employers a...
Schwarzenegger Proposes Sweeping Plan to Cover Uninsured
Jan 10 2007 // California Governor is hoping to develop a plan to extend health care to 6.5 million uninsured Californians, but to do so, he will have to find common ground between groups that often are at odds. Union leaders quickly...
Calif. Insurance Commissioner Poizner Sworn In
Jan 9 2007 // Steve Poizner took the Oath of Office Monday afternoon, becoming California’s new Insurance Commissioner. During his remarks, Poizner vowed to make the office bi-partisan, lower insurance rates by combatting fraud,...
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...
