Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Reduced rates and renewed competition in Calif.
Feb 20 2006 // California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates. In fact, rates are roughly equivalent to 1995...
People and Places
Feb 20 2006 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Richard Robin president. He will be responsible for overall operations, including underwriting, marketing and administration. Ed Robin will continue to serve as...
News Currents
Feb 19 2006 // California Surplus Line Association elects new officers The Surplus Line Association of California’s (SLA) elected new officers at its Annual Meeting held in Northern California on Jan. 24 and in Southern California...
Richard Robin
Feb 19 2006 // People Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Richard Robin president. He will be responsible for overall operations, including underwriting, marketing and administration. Ed Robin will continue to serve...
Legislative Advocacy: A matter of insurance industry survival
Feb 19 2006 // The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal in Washington, D.C., has prompted many to question the appropriateness of legislative lobbying that has become so much a part of American politics. California leads the nation in money...
Business Moves
Feb 19 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has reported its net income for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $190.7 million, compared with $179.8 million during the same period the previous year. For the full year, Safeco reported net income of...
Calif. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 19 2006 // Reduced rates and renewed competition in Calif. California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates....
Two Suspects Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Feb 19 2006 // Fraud Roundup Two Elk Grove, Calif., residents were arrested on insurance fraud charges related to the alleged staged theft, arson, and subsequent insurance claim for a vehicle belonging to one of the suspects. According...
Community Relations Teams Visit Calif. Disaster Areas After Recent Floods
Feb 17 2006 // Community Relations specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are working with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES) and county emergency management directors to reach out to people...
New Online Calif. Service Available for License Renewals, Address Changes
Feb 17 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi reported that a new online system that will allow licensees to renew licenses and change their address of record paper free is available. Prior to the new service, licensees...
Calif. Palo Alto Groups Lose Bid to Break from ZIP Code for Auto Rates
Feb 16 2006 // Several hundred California residents who say they’re paying too much for car insurance tried and failed to convince the U.S. Postal Service to allow them to migrate to a ZIP code where insurers charge cheaper...
Freeman Joins California’s Arthur Gallagher & Co.
Feb 16 2006 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Insurance Brokers of California Inc. in San Francisco has announced that Mark Freeman has joined the firm as area president. He will be responsible for the San Francisco financial district...
G.J. Sullivan Offers Online Rating Program for Personal Umbrella in Calif.
Feb 16 2006 // G.J. Sullivan Co. has launched an online rating program for personal umbrella policies in California. This platform will allow the company’s agents to register and begin rating and binding business. This will also...
Former Calif. Farmers Agent Sentenced for Premium Theft
Feb 16 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Gary Calcagno, 48, of Carlsbad, Calif., has been sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay $13,460 restitution for stealing premiums from 20...
Acordia Names Van Ness Managing Director for Central, Northern Calif.
Feb 16 2006 // Acordia, the insurance brokerage subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., has named Greg Van Ness managing director for all of its insurance brokerage operations in Northern and Central California, including the San Francisco...
Delgado Appointed to Calif. Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers Board
Feb 15 2006 // Carlos Delgado, CLU (Danmar Insurance Services, Riverside), has agreed to serve on the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ board of directors. Delgado, a 35-year industry veteran, began his insurance career in...
Calif. State Fund Raises More than $100,000 for United Way
Feb 14 2006 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund employees have raised more than $102,000 in donations for United Way in its annual Bay Area California State Employees Charitable Campaign Drive. Donations collected will help...
Calif. Man Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Feb 13 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of Alejandro Ruiz Lopez, 26, on felony charges of workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation revealed that Lopez allegedly falsified a...
Todd R. Soll Moves from Beverly Hills to Encino, Calif.
Feb 13 2006 // Todd R. Soll Insurance Services Inc., intermediaries for healthcare professional liability, has moved to larger offices in Encino, Calif. The new address will be 17547 Ventura Blvd., Ste 304, Encino, CA 91316. The national...
Up to 700 Women in West Not Told about Placenta Registry
Feb 13 2006 // As many as 700 women along the West Coast were not told that an institute financed by the insurance industry kept their placentas after giving birth in order to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits,...
