Latest California Headlines
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Farmers Dedicates Campus in Agoura Hills, Calif.
Nov 2 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group plans to dedicate a new, 120,000-square-foot agent, claims, leadership and management training facility — The University of Farmers — at a ribbon cutting ceremony to be held at 10:45 a.m., Nov....
FARA Appoints Jankosky Account Executive in California Signal Hill
Nov 1 2006 // FARA has appointed David Jankosky account executive, responsible for all business development and client service initiatives in California. He is based in the company’s Signal Hill office. Prior to this appointment,...
Evacuees Return to Find Homes Destroyed by Calif. Wildfire
Nov 1 2006 // While crews made progress on a wildfire that killed four firefighters, evacuees began returning to their homes — often to find nothing left. Carol Hurley stood Saturday at the still-smoldering wreckage of a...
Spinach Probe Most Thorough Ever, But No Clear Answers Yet
Oct 30 2006 // Like lab technicians on a crime-scene television drama, investigators have tracked a strain of bacteria over thousands of miles — from bagged spinach in Midwestern refrigerators to the guts of a wild pig in the hills...
Calif. Blaze that Killed Four is 70 Percent Contained
Oct 30 2006 // Dying winds and cooler temperatures helped firefighters begin to get the upper hand Sunday on a 63-square-mile wildfire that killed four firefighters, although the blaze was still threatening a wilderness area plagued by...
Many California Hispanics Not Aware of Uninsured Motorists Requirements
Oct 27 2006 // On Oct. 1, 2006, the California Department of Motor Vehicles began enforcing Senate Bill 1500 that requires the DMV to suspend a vehicle’s registration if the vehicle does not have a valid insurance policy or bond....
National Advantage Offers Market for Calif. Transportation Risks
Oct 25 2006 // Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc., has added a new admitted market for business auto and/or trucking risks available to California transportation insurance brokers. The carrier is Lincoln...
Chatsworth, Calif. CEO and Wife Arrested for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 24 2006 // Three suspects in connection with a workers’ compensation premium fraud investigation conducted by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Fraud Division have been arrested. A felony complaint was issued by the...
Crawley Warren Insurance Services Announces Customized Calif. Homeowners Program
Oct 24 2006 // San Francisco-based Crawley Warren Insurance Services Inc. has a new customized high value homeowners program (HVH) for high net worth clients in California. The nonadmitted product is designed for dwellings more than...
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...
