Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sam Jones
Apr 3 2006 // People Sam Jones, president of property and casualty operations at ABD Insurance and Financial Services, Redwood City, Calif., is retiring from active operating responsibilities to focus more time on his family and the...
Business Moves
Apr 3 2006 // Barger and Wolen Barger & Wolen LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm specializing in insurance regulatory, general business and litigation matters, has opened an office in Phoenix to be managed by Charles Cohen, former...
Closer Look: Insurance Associations
Apr 3 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part II of this article will appear in a future issue. As people migrate to the West to enjoy the weather and opportunities for...
Case Law Watch
Apr 3 2006 // Bechtel Petroleum Operations Inc. v. The Continental Insurance Co. (California Court of Appeals, 2nd District, March 6, 2006) Ruling: At issue on this appeal was whether the insurers had a duty to defend lawsuits filed by...
Small Business California finds employers concerned about workers’ comp
Apr 3 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
CPCU
Apr 3 2006 // As California political race heats up for governor, lieutenant governor, insurance commissioner, and attorney general, the insurance industry is speculating who will lead the state – and how that will affect...
Big players, like big tractor trailers, cannot get in and cover the territories that smaller, independent insurance ag
Apr 3 2006 // Non-Standard Auto Times Have Changed. Are you still driving this business? Can independent agents compete in the nonstandard auto market? The big boys are better organized, financed and dominating the byways. They also are...
Spotlight: Catastrophic Coverage
Apr 3 2006 // Ruins of San Francisco’s city hall after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s Fund. San Francisco street scene after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s...
California Employer Arrested for Wrongly Accusing Employee of Workers Comp Fraud
Mar 31 2006 // A San Bernardino, Calif., employer has been arrested for wrongly accusing an employee of workers compensation fraud, according to the California Department of Insurance. Matthew Day, 26, was arrested after surrendering...
Association Warns Insurers that Bill Would Impose Hidden Tax to Fund California Campaigns
Mar 31 2006 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is warning insurers that the California Legislature will soon consider a bill that would establish the dangerous precedent of imposing a hidden, multi-million dollar tax on...
Association of California Insurance Companies Elects Officers
Mar 30 2006 // Members of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) in Sacramento have re-elected their officers for a one-year term. Cinda Smith, senior counsel with Geico, was re-elected chair of the board of directors;...
California State Fund Holds Ergonomics Workshop in Sacramento
Mar 28 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will be hosting a free ergonomics workshop at its Sacramento District Office on March 29-30. Ergonomics – “the science of fitting the job to the worker...
California Commission Hosts Forum on Catastrophe Preparedness
Mar 27 2006 // The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation is sponsoring “Forum on Catastrophe Preparedness: Partnering to Protect Workplaces” on Friday, April 7, 2006, at the South San...
Tax Help Available for California Storm and Flood Victims
Mar 27 2006 // President George W. Bush has declared several areas in Northern California a Federal Disaster Area, following the devastating storms, flooding, and mudslides that occurred in several counties last December and in January...
California Proposes Decrease in Workers Comp Pure Premium Rates
Mar 24 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) Governing Committee has approved the filing of a 16.4 percent decrease in advisory pure premium rates to be effective July 1, 2006, on new and...
Abram Interstate Unveils Special Event Program in California, Arizona
Mar 23 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a new program providing coverage for various special events in Arizona and California. The program covers short-term events of one week or less, but...
Former ’49er Wersching Indicted on $8M Insurance Fraud and Tax Evasion
Mar 23 2006 // Ray Wersching, once the kicker with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, and a former Farmers Insurance agent, has been charged with insurance fraud, tax evasion, and the hiring of a convicted felon to...
Garamendi Issues Cease and Desist Order Against TSI Title & Escrow
Mar 22 2006 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi issued a Cease and Desist Order to TSI Title & Escrow, Inc., a Stateline, Nevada corporation that has conducted more than $860,000 in title insurance business in California...
Small Business California Finds Employers Still Concerned about Workers’ Comp
Mar 21 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
Agents, brokers want Calif. court to depublish opinion
Mar 20 2006 // Insurance Agents and Brokers of the West (IBA West) is hoping the California Supreme Court will “depublish” an appellate court opinion suggesting that insurance broker-agents owe a legal duty of care to third...
