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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...
California Chiropractor and Legal Assistant Plead No Contest to Fraud
May 4 2006 // An Encino, Calif., chiropractor Nasrin “Nancy” Hadizadeh Fathi, 43, and legal assistant Behrouz Beck Saffary, 51, have pled no contest and were found guilty of one count each of insurance fraud, the California...
Founder of Calif.-based Bolton & Co., Dorance D. Bolton, Passes Away
Apr 28 2006 // Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton and 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...
California Auto Bill Passes Assembly Insurance Committee
Apr 27 2006 // California Assembly Bill 2840, co-authored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers including Assemblymembers John J. Benoit, R-Palm Desert; Joe Canciamilla, D-Pittsburg; Nicole Parra, D-Hanford; Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale; and...
California Releases New Regulations Governing Pricing of Auto Insurance
Apr 27 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that will follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 – namely, that...
Calif. Woman Spanked in Front of Co-Workers Seeks $1.2 Million
Apr 27 2006 // Lawyers for a California woman who was spanked in front of her co-workers as part of what her employer said was a camaraderie-building exercise asked a jury this week for at least $1.2 million for the humiliation she...
California State Fund Offers Restaurant-Safety Training Program
Apr 26 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a free restaurant-safety training program at its Oxnard office on April 27. The workshop is designed to help restaurant supervisors and owners create a...
Insurers Say Auto Insurance Bill is ‘Good Public Policy’
Apr 26 2006 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee is considering a bill today that the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) says would prevent the Department of Insurance from altering auto insurance rating...
California Legislation Aims to Assure Competitive Reinsurance Market
Apr 26 2006 // California’s Assembly Insurance Committee will be hearing a bill today co-sponsored by the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) that is designed to assure a competitive reinsurance market in the...
Axiom Offers General Liability Coverage for California Contractors
Apr 26 2006 // Axiom Specialty Insurance Services, Victorville, Calif., is offering primary general liability for residential and commercial contractors, including general contractors and subcontractors, in California. THere is no...
AIA: La. Senate Committee Passes Destructive Insurance Bills
Apr 26 2006 // The Louisiana Senate Insurance Committee passed two bills that would be very destructive to the state if they became law, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). “One bill (SB 707) is a very expansive...
Gonzalez Appointed California State Fund’s Fresno District Office Manager
Apr 25 2006 // Joseph Gonzalez has been promoted to Fresno (California) district office manager for State Compensation Insurance Fund. Gonzalez began his State Fund career in 1977 when he was hired as an auditor for the...
California State Fund Offers Aging and Ergonomics Seminar in Santa Ana
Apr 25 2006 // In the next four years, the number of workers 55 years or older will increase 32 percent. To help employers understand and respond to that trend, California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Santa Ana district...
Calif. Approves Tax-Exempt Status for Private School Self-Insurer
Apr 21 2006 // The California Private Schools Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Group, Inc., a self-insurance group for private schools, has been granted tax-exempt status by the California Franchise Tax Board. Rather than...
