Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ comp reforms reduced physician fees
Oct 23 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has released its 2006 Legislative Cost Monitoring Report. According to the report, physician fees have been reduced by about 4 percent since...
Trip Assured ordered to cease and desist
Oct 23 2006 // Fraud Roundup California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has issued a “cease and desist” order against Trip Assured Inc., a company offering trip cancellation insurance in California, but without a...
Business Moves
Oct 23 2006 // OneBeacon, QBE OneBeacon Insurance Group completed its renewal rights and asset sale agreement to transfer its agricultural division to QBE the Americas, a division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd., for approximately $32...
E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage
Oct 23 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
Bustamante and Poizner in the final campaign stretch
Oct 23 2006 // From holding the line on new reforms to reducing uninsured motorists, a fair share of work lurks ahead for California’s soon-to-be-chosen insurance commissioner. Front-runners fighting for the honor of regulating...
HOSPITALITY RISKS
Oct 23 2006 // In Pennsylvania, a disabled customer complained of emotional distress when she dined at a restaurant that lacked adequate parking for her wheelchair van and where the restrooms were not fully wheelchair-accessible. The...
Insurance charity foundation opens in N.Y.; plans national expansion
Oct 23 2006 // A California organization seeking to be a collective voice for insurance industry philanthropy has launched a New York division, kicking off what it hopes will become a nationwide expansion. The Insurance Industry...
Report: Blue Cross of California Agrees to Settle Patients’ Suits
Oct 20 2006 // California’s largest health insurer has agreed to settle claims it illegally dropped patients from their coverage plans after they got sick, according to a published report. Several patients sued Blue Cross of...
Calif. State Fund to Hold Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Seminar
Oct 18 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is partnering with the California Department of Health Services to offer a free seminar to policyholders and the public on October 19 in Monterey Park, Calif., that will...
Calif. Distributes $1.25 Billion to Policyholders of Failed Insurers
Oct 18 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that the Department’s Conservation and Liquidation Office will distribute a record $1.25 billion to claimants of failed insurance companies during...
California Alliance Presents Presidential and Agent Awards
Oct 18 2006 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, La Verne, Calif., has presented awards to two of its most distinguished and dedicated members. Joe Jimenez, owner of C.S.I.S. Inc. of Garden Grove, Calif., has received the...
California Leads Nation in Hybrid Ownership; Travelers Offers Discount
Oct 17 2006 // Travelers is now offering a 10 percent discount on auto insurance for California owners of Hybrid vehicles. According to the company, Californians registered 52,619 new hybrid vehicles in 2005. At a distant second, Florida...
California Hospitals Sue Blue Cross over Canceled Policies
Oct 16 2006 // Blue Cross of California was accused in a lawsuit of routinely violating state law by refusing to pay hundreds of hospitals statewide for patient care it authorized. The class-action lawsuit was filed Friday in Los Angeles...
California State Fund to Host Safety Training Seminars
Oct 16 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a comprehensive safety seminar in Redding, Calif., on Oct. 18, and a restaurant supervisor safety-training program in Monterey Park, Calif., on Oct. 18. The...
Santa Clara Man Sentenced In Bogus Insurance Company Scheme
Oct 11 2006 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced a Santa Clara man who operated an unlicensed automobile insurance company will serve five years formal probation and pay restitution to his victims. The charges resulted from...
Leadership Changes in Colemont – Southern California
Oct 10 2006 // Colemont Insurance Brokers announced that Casey Hamlin, who served as office president of the company’s Southern California operations, has been named chairman of Colemont – Southern California. “Casey...
Insurance Charity Foundation Opens in N.Y.; Plans National Expansion
Oct 10 2006 // A California organization seeking to be a collective voice for insurance industry philanthropy has launched a New York division, kicking off what it hopes will become a nationwide expansion. The Insurance Industry...
Association launches attack on Garamendi regulations
Oct 9 2006 // California’s Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has launched a legal attack on what it is calling California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s attempt to illegally redefine agent and...
California anticipates lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates 6.3 percent
Oct 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced on Sept. 28 that he will likely recommend a further reduction in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3...
COURT RULES HURT PRISON GUARD NOT ENTITLED TO WORKERS’ COMP
Oct 9 2006 // A California correctional officer who was hurt while helping at an accident while on his way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has ruled. The...
