Latest California Headlines
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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...
Schwarzenegger vetoes California’s last-minute punitive damages bill
Oct 9 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed SB 832 by Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, that would have required by law that 75 percent of all punitive damage awards go to the state treasury rather than to the victim. In...
California governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
Oct 9 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Calif. attorney general sues automakers over global warming
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Fraud Roundup
Oct 9 2006 // Colorado agent pleads guilty A Billings, Mont., insurance agent has pleaded guilty to issuing $160,000 in construction bonds on behalf of two insurance companies and keeping the premiums. Michael D. Hutton, 59, also...
Fraud Roundup
Oct 9 2006 // Colorado agent pleads guilty A Billings, Mont., insurance agent has pleaded guilty to issuing $160,000 in construction bonds on behalf of two insurance companies and keeping the premiums. Michael D. Hutton, 59, also...
Calif. attorney general sues automakers over global warming
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Business Moves
Oct 9 2006 // Safeco moves to New York Stock Exchange, to Lay off 240 Seattle-based Safeco intends to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Safeco anticipates the trading of its common stock to commence on the...
Schwarzenegger vetoes California’s last-minute punitive damages bill
Oct 9 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed SB 832 by Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, that would have required by law that 75 percent of all punitive damage awards go to the state treasury rather than to the victim. In...
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 governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
Oct 9 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Court rules hurt prison guard not entitledto 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...
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...
Cal/OSHA Cites California Ski Resort Following Patrolmen Deaths
Oct 7 2006 // The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), cited Mammoth Mountain Ski Area $49,865 following an investigation into the accidental deaths of three of...
Minn. Life Group Opens Office in Southern Calif.
Oct 6 2006 // St. Paul-based Minnesota Life Group Insurance recently announced the opening of a sales and service office at 450 N. Brand Blvd. in Glendale, Calif. The company provides web-based group life insurance and dental benefits...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Releases Cost Monitoring Report
Oct 3 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...
California Anticipates Lowering Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 29 2006 // Califiornia Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced he will likely recommend a further reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3 percent. Based on pre-reform trends, the...
3rd Bag of Tainted Spinach Linked to Calif. Plant
Sep 29 2006 // A third bag of Dole baby spinach that tested positive for a deadly E. coli strain has been linked to a specific batch packaged at a Salinas Valley plant, California health officials said. A Pennsylvania state lab...
California Association Launches Attack on Garamendi Regulations
Sep 29 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...
