Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board Adopts New Heat Stress Regulations
Jun 16 2006 // The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has adopted a permanent heat stress regulation, which protects all California employees working outdoors. The measure now goes to the Office of Administrative...
Liberty Mutual Expands Options for Calif. Agribusiness
Jun 14 2006 // To provide more options for California food and agribusiness companies to find workers compensation insurance, Liberty Mutual Alternative Markets, part of the Liberty Mutual Group, and FSIM, Food Service Insurance...
WIAA & Alliance Submit Comments Opposing Mileage Verification Regulation
Jun 14 2006 // WIAA & Alliance Support Less Regulation, Not More, and More Competition, Not Less Rancho Cordova… On behalf of its members and members of the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the Western Insurance...
Networked Promotes Salivar to Territorial Sales VP in North Central Calif.
Jun 8 2006 // Networked Insurance Agents, a Grass Valley, Calif., professional account placement organization, has appointed Charise Salivar as territorial sales vice president in California’s North Central region. Salivar has...
Study: Shaking Can Trigger Earthquake Aftershocks Miles from Epicenter
Jun 8 2006 // New research suggests earthquake shaking can trigger aftershocks many miles from the epicenter, countering the popular view that they tend to cluster near the main shock. That might help scientists forecast where...
Calif. Treasurer to Face Schwarzenegger, Bustamante Knocks Out Kraft
Jun 7 2006 // California State Treasurer Phil Angelides defeated Controller Steve Westly in a bitter primary battle, and the Democrats turned their attention to defeating a wounded but rebounding Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in...
Allstate Dropping Most Earthquake Insurance Nationwide
Jun 5 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co. says it is dropping earthquake insurance to most of its 407,000 quake customers nationwide as a part of a larger move to reduce exposure to catastrophic losses. Allstate Spokesman Mike Siemienas in...
California Assembly Passes Two Bills
Jun 5 2006 // A bill that would extend the sunset date for certain tax credits made to community development financial institutions and another bill that would require the administrative director of the Division of Workers’...
Fraud Roundup
Jun 5 2006 // California correctional officer submits fraudulent workers’ comp claims A former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer has been arrested for submitting fraudulent workers’...
California Commissioner says insurers earning ‘excess profits’
Jun 5 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has released a new report, “Lower Claims, Higher Profits: Where Do Your Premium Dollars Go?” on the profitability of homeowners and private passenger automobile...
New Markets
Jun 5 2006 // Surgeons Liability Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Avreco is offering bariatrics and general surgery physicians professional liability coverage. Eligible risks must be certified by the American Board of Surgery or the...
California Commissioner says insurers earning ‘excess profits’
Jun 5 2006 // News Currents California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has released a new report, “Lower Claims, Higher Profits: Where Do Your Premium Dollars Go?” on the profitability of homeowners and private...
Arthur J. Gallagher lacked authority to issue additional endorsements
Jun 5 2006 // A California court has found Arthur J. Gallagher had no authority to issue additional insured endorsements in a high-exposure construction defect litigation. The court ruled California law prohibits the issuance of...
California workers’ comp system reformed, but still needs more
Jun 5 2006 // Since workers’ compensation reforms were implemented in California in 2002, labor, government and insurers agree that the market has become more competitive and costs have decreased. “There’s more...
Fraud Roundup
Jun 5 2006 // California correctional officer submits fraudulent workers’ comp claims A former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer has been arrested for submitting fraudulent workers’...
California State Fund Files Average 10 Percent Premium Decrease
Jun 2 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund filed its sixth consecutive rate reduction, reflecting an average collectible premium decrease of 10 percent on new and renewal workers’ compensation policies with...
Standard & Poor’s Downgrades Mercury Insurance from Stable to Negative
Jun 1 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Mercury Casualty Co. (Mercury Casualty), Mercury Insurance Co. (Mercury Insurance), and Mercury Insurance Co. of Florida (collectively referred to as...
California Commissioner Recommends 16.4 Percent Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
May 31 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has recommended a 16.4 percent decrease in the workers’ compensation pure premium rate. The decrease would be applicable to new and renewal policies as of the first...
Iroquois Group Branches into California
May 31 2006 // The Iroquois Group, Olean, N.Y., recently announced its expansion into California through the formation of Iroquois Insurance Services. “We have had our eye on the California market for some time, but we knew we...
California Considering New Mileage Verification Rules
May 31 2006 // Insurance brokers and agents could be required to verify odometer readings for new and renewal automobile insurance policies under amendments the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has proposed to its personal...
