Latest California Headlines
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California Insurance Commissioner Announces Anti-Fraud Guidelines
Nov 7 2005 // California Insurance Com-missioner John Gara-mendi has announced new Special Investigative Unit (SIU) regulations for insurance carriers licensed to conduct business in California. The regulations are a result of a...
UnumProvident Enters Settlement
Nov 7 2005 // Three of UnumProvident Corp.’s insurance subsidiaries have entered into a settlement agreement with the California Depart-ment of Insurance, concluding an investigation of the subsidiaries’ disability claims...
Calif. Agent Pleads Guilty to Theft
Nov 7 2005 // A Costa Mesa Insurance agent pled guilty to three felony counts of grand theft and was forced to surrender his insurance license for life following an investigation conducted by the California Department of Insurance (CDI)...
UnumProvident Enters Settlement
Nov 6 2005 // Three of UnumProvident Corp.’s insurance subsidiaries have entered into a settlement agreement with the California Depart-ment of Insurance, concluding an investigation of the subsidiaries’ disability claims...
California Insurance Commissioner Announces Anti-Fraud Guidelines
Nov 6 2005 // California Insurance Com-missioner John Gara-mendi has announced new Special Investigative Unit (SIU) regulations for insurance carriers licensed to conduct business in California. The regulations are a result of a...
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Nov 6 2005 // ACE USA announced two appointments in its ACE Casualty Risk Unit. William Hazelton has joined as senior vice president and underwriting manager for ACE Environ-mental Risk, and Mitchell Schmidt is now senior vice president...
Calif. Court Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Get Workers’ Comp
Nov 6 2005 // Illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits despite their legal status, a California state appeals court recently ruled. The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in a case...
UnumProvident Enters Settlement Agreement
Nov 6 2005 // Three of UnumProvident Corp.’s insurance subsidiaries have entered into a settlement agreement with the California Department of Insurance, concluding a market conduct examination and investigation of the...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // California CDI Amends Proposed “Action Notice” Filing Regulations The California Department of In-surance has deleted a section of proposed regulations that would have required insurers to notify CDI when a...
CA Insurers Turn Out in Record Number to Help Nonprofits
Nov 6 2005 // An unprecedented number of California insurance industry professionals volunteered their time to charitable projects for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s recent 8th Annual Volunteer Week. The 2005...
Calif. Couple, Brothers Nabbed for Felony Auto Fraud Scam
Nov 4 2005 // A husband, his wife, and another man have been arrested on felony auto insurance fraud charges following a California Department of Insurance Fraud Division (CDI) investigation into the alleged theft of the couple’s...
California Commissioner Announces Finalization of Settlement Agreements
Nov 2 2005 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that agreements have been reached with two of the nation’s largest title insurers over illegal rebate activities. The deals will deliver $22.7 million to consumers...
Lawsuit Claims Disability Insurer Sought to Avoid Paying Claims
Nov 1 2005 // UnumProvident Corp., the nation’s largest disability insurer, systematically sought ways to avoid paying claims to millions of California customers, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit filed in Superior Court by...
CA State Fund To Host Confined Workplace Spaces Seminar
Nov 1 2005 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Stockton District Office and the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau will jointly hold a free seminar, “Confined Space in the Workplace,” on November 3rd in...
California Seeks Owners of Items in State’s Lost and Found
Oct 28 2005 // Danny DeVito has a $26 check waiting for him from Allstate Insurance. Reese Witherspoon is owed nearly $100 by Tiffany Co. And California first lady Maria Shriver has more than $300 waiting for her in the state’s...
Colemont’s Northern California President Retires; Successor Named
Oct 28 2005 // Bob Amado, president of Colemont’s Northern California offices, announced today his plans to retire effective Jan. 1, 2006. “Bob has been an excellent steward of the Colemont name since he joined our firm in...
Calif. Auto Insurance Fraud Ring Lands Three Suspects in Jail
Oct 25 2005 // Three suspects have been arrested following an 11-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance of an auto insurance fraud ring that targeted car rental and insurance companies for fraudulent automobile...
NIAC & ANI-RRG Offering New Prior Acts Coverage
Oct 25 2005 // To assist nonprofits locked into claims-made forms the Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) is now offering prior acts...
RIC Insurance General Agency Sold to Nor-Cal Investment Group
Oct 24 2005 // Ron Arndt, long time president of RIC Insurance General Agency Inc., has sold RIC to a Northern California investment group. Gary Kitchen is the new CEO of RIC Insurance General Agency Inc. and will reside in the Tustin,...
National Advantage Insurance Services Offering Preferred BOP
Oct 24 2005 // Clifford Mapes, president and CEO of National Advantage Insurance Services Inc., has announced that the company has added a new admitted Preferred BOP for small business accounts. This is an admitted program from A.M. Best...
