Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Motor vehicle theft declines in California, but violent crime increases
Dec 10 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Bolton & Co: Providing resources for customers produces profits
Dec 10 2006 // Developing a Web presence is not the primary focus at Bolton & Co. Insurance Brokers — developing the skills of employees and building relationships with customers is the chief concern. After all, when employees...
Cambridge Offers Workers’ Comp Program in California
Dec 7 2006 // Cambridge General Agency is now offering a workers’ compensation program through ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The program is called ACE Complete. There are more than 125 classes in California for small...
California Ramps Up Efforts to Crackdown on Uninsured Drivers
Dec 7 2006 // California is ramping up its efforts to crack down on uninsured drivers and has sent more than 180,000 letters in the last two months to car owners warning them their auto registrations may be suspended if they cannot...
Safeco Appoints Mikolajewski and Vargas to Leadership Posts in California
Dec 7 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has named Tim Mikolajewski general manager for the state of California, responsible for the profit-and-loss performance of the company’s insurance products; and Juan Vargas was appointed vice...
Calif. Association to Oppose Proposed Tax Increase on Oregon Drivers
Dec 6 2006 // Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is renewing a once-defeated legislative proposal to impose a new sales tax on Oregon drivers that will raise auto insurance premiums by millions of dollars, according to Kenton Brine, Northwest...
California To Rule on Industry Petition Becoming “Precedential Decision”
Dec 5 2006 // The California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has decided to accept a petition filed by Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) requesting review of the former Insurance Commissioner John Garmendi’s...
Fires Driven by Winds Threaten Homes in California
Dec 4 2006 // A trio of fires driven by strong Santa Ana winds broke out Sunday morning, endangering dozens of homes in canyons and on hillsides, authorities said. Fire officials called for voluntary evacuations in Ventura County, where...
Ingoglia Appointed Manager for Calif. State Fund Claims Services
Dec 1 2006 // Lisa Ingoglia has been promoted to manager of California’s State Fund’s Claims Management Services. She brings 18 years of State Fund experience to her new post. She started State Fund career in 1988 as a...
Court Rules Estate Not Entitled to Workers’ Comp Benefits
Nov 29 2006 // The Second Appellate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...
Motor Vehicle Theft Declines in California
Nov 29 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Calif. State Fund Files Average 9 Percent Premium Decrease
Nov 28 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...
Calif. Company Recalling Contact Lens Solution
Nov 28 2006 // Santa Ana, Calif.-based Advanced Medical Optics Inc. is recalling U.S. batches of its Complete MoisturePlus multipurpose contact lens solution and Active Packs after finding bacterial contamination in three lots made at...
R.E. Chaix Adds Safeco as Admitted Market in California
Nov 28 2006 // Timothy Chaix, president of Irvine, Calif.-based R.E. Chaix & Associates, announced that its commercial auto division has added Safeco as a new admitted market for California agents. Eligible classes of business...
California Issues 2007 Insurer Assessment Rates
Nov 22 2006 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2007 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
Calif. Agents Oppose Expanded Commissioner Control over Licensing
Nov 21 2006 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has testified in opposition to new proposed regulations that would expand the California Insurance Commissioner’s authority to deny, suspend or revoke broker-agent...
Two California State Fund Directors Resign
Nov 21 2006 // Two directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund have resigned, following concerns about possible conflicts of interest, industry sources are reporting. Frank DelRe, 59, president of Western Insurance...
People and Places
Nov 20 2006 // J.J. Morrow, Jr., formerly the managing director of St. Paul Travelers Insurance Company in Chicago has joined Georgia-based Swett & Crawford’s Chicago office as a property broker. Since 1997 he has managed...
Your vote still counts
Nov 20 2006 // The final votes from November’s midterm elections may have been tallied, yet the real political campaigning should be just about ready to begin. As expected, elections changed key roles in in the House and Senate...
Declarations
Nov 20 2006 // Soundly defeated “We’ve learned that we need not fear voters won’t understand the benefits of credit scoring and will respond on basis of their own interests. I think we had a fairly good idea that we...
