Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Five Calif. Residents Arrested for Suspected Auto Insurance Fraud
May 12 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of three suspects who were allegedly said to have participated in the staging of auto collisions on the 605 Freeway. Three of the suspects —...
ICW Group Hires Sinatra to Expand Company in Pleasanton, Calif.
May 10 2006 // ICW Group, San Diego, has hired Michael Sinatra to become the branch manager for its Pleasanton, Calif., workers’ compensation underwriting office. The expansion in Pleasanton will complement ICW Groups’ other...
California Commissioner Seeks Investigation into “Attempted Blackmail” by Insurance Industry
May 10 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Attorney General of California to investigate the insurance industry’s latest...
Texas Surplus Lines Group Heads to Calif. for Mid-Year Meeting in July
May 10 2006 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA) will be hosting its 2006 Mid-Year Meeting July 23-26 at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, Calif. TSLA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Speakers scheduled for this...
Insurers Oppose California Auto Repair Dispute Legislation
May 9 2006 // California is scheduled to consider a bill today, May 9, that is designed to resolve auto repair disputes between insurers and policyholders, according to Jeff Fuller, executive vice president and general counsel of the...
California Commissioner Claims Insurance Industry Attempted Blackmail to Derail Auto Rate Regulations
May 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is claiming that he has unveiled an attack campaign by the insurance industry against his efforts to reward good drivers and create a fairer system for the pricing of auto...
Lockton Insurance Brokers’ CEO Noonan Honored for Community Service
May 9 2006 // Timothy J. Noonan, president and CEO of Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. based in Los Angeles, was recently honored by Phoenix House during its third annual “Triumph for Teens” Awards Gala at the Four Seasons...
CaseRev, Inc. Moves Corporate Office to Poway, California
May 8 2006 // San Diego, CA – Today, CaseRev, Inc. announced that it will be expanding its corporate offices to Poway, CA to better serve its growing national clientele. Steve Pratt, CEO, explained “We have moved our primary...
Fraud Roundup
May 8 2006 // Four Riverside, Calif., residents arrested for alleged fradulent auto theft claim Three Riverside, Calif., residents have been arrested on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 –TITLE:...
People and Places
May 8 2006 // Andrew J. Valdivia has been elected president of White & Co. Insurance Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif., and will be responsible for property and casualty sales, account development and account management. Valdivia was...
Governor claims Calif. workers’ comp changes ‘huge success’
May 8 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the sweeping workers’ compensation changes he pushed through the Legislature two years ago a “huge success,” but critics called them a disaster for injured...
Fraud Roundup
May 8 2006 // Four Riverside, Calif., residents arrested for alleged fradulent auto theft claim Three Riverside, Calif., residents have been arrested on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was...
People
May 8 2006 // Andrew J. Valdivia has been elected president of White & Co. Insurance Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif., and will be responsible for property and casualty sales, account development and account management. Valdivia was...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 -namely, that the...
Business Moves
May 8 2006 // Barlocker Insurance Services, The Leavitt Group Barlocker Insurance Services will become part of the Leavitt Group in early June. A definitive letter of intent was signed on April 6, followed by inter-company...
Governor claims Calif. workers’ comp changes ‘huge success’
May 8 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the sweeping workers’ compensation changes he pushed through the Legislature two years ago a “huge success,” but critics called them a disaster for injured...
Founder of Calif.-based Bolton & Co. Passes Away
May 8 2006 // Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Company Insurance Brokers, passed away on April 21, 2006, at the age of 96. Bolton was a pioneer Southern California insurance broker and was a founding...
Former California Agent Charged with Fraud, Grand Theft
May 5 2006 // Donald Paul Hardwick, 43, of Fresno, Calif., has been charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud, theft of insurance funds and grand theft by embezzlement, stemming from investigations conducted by the California...
Judge Grants “Take Nothing” in California State Fund, Palm Medical Group Case
May 4 2006 // San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell has granted California State Fund’s Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and has vacated the March 2, 2006, judgment for Palm Medical and has...
