Latest California Headlines
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Calif. May Lower Quake Insurance Rates in Wake of Katrina
Sep 25 2005 // As federal, state and local officials grapple with the financial and physical ruin wrought by Hurricane Katrina, momentum is building to make earthquake insurance offered by the semipublic California Earthquake Authority...
California Raisin Growers Try To Save Crops After Early Storm
Sep 23 2005 // An early thunderstorm soaked California’s vineyards, threatening the nation’s raisin crop even as many farmers missed the deadline to qualify for crop insurance. California fields produce all domestically grown...
Vido to Head New San Diego Office of SullivanCurtisMonroe
Sep 23 2005 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services has appointed Igor Vido as senior vice president and managing director of its new San Diego office. The office will serve all types of entities ranging from construction, trucking,...
ACIC Asks Gov. Schwarzenegger to Sign Safety Bills
Sep 21 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) is asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law highway safety legislation that would target street racing and beginning teen drivers. The bills are AB 1325 by...
CA Division of Workers’ Comp Hosting Spanish Workshop for Workers
Sep 21 2005 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will conduct its first Spanish-language workshop for injured workers on Wed., Sept. 21. At the free, one-hour workshop, workers will learn about their right to...
ACIC Opposes Proposed California Department of Insurance Regulations
Sep 21 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) recently testified on proposed Department of Insurance regulations. According to Jeff Fuller, executive vice president and general counsel of ACIC, if passed, the...
Crooms Joins Torrance-based Keenan
Sep 20 2005 // Torrance, Calif.-based Keenan announced that John Crooms has been named vice president of Sales for Northern California Group Schools Benefit Division, a newly created position. Keenan is a full-service brokerage and...
FEMA Tightens Policy on Flood Safety
Sep 20 2005 // A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of...
Calif. State Fund to Collect $66,355 in Fraud Case
Sep 20 2005 // Superior Court Judge Christopher G. Wilson ordered the owner of three Humboldt County bars to pay State Compensation Insurance Fund $66,355.00 in restitution for defrauding the workers’ compensation insurance...
Latin Agents Urge Insurers to Join the Hispanic Market Explosion
Sep 19 2005 // As the Hispanic population surpasses 40 million with a combined purchasing power of more than $700 million, the insurance industry is keeping its eye on this ever-growing market segment. Hispanic agents and Latin agent...
HURRICANE KATRINA: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // Liability Claims Will Range Far-and-Wide for Years to Come The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for...
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to U.S. Insurance Industry
Sep 19 2005 // Report Warns of Dire Consequences Unless Industry, Government Act Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other...
Writing Wineries Requires More Than Just a Tasting
Sep 19 2005 // To be successful, you must thoroughly drink in all the details. Insuring wineries may sound like a lucrative and growing business. All 50 states now produce wine, and the business has a total economic impact of $33...
Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...
Heat Waves Could Hurt California’s Energy Grid
Sep 19 2005 // More frequent and intense heat waves that are expected in California during the next 100 years could overburden the state’s electric utility grid, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to U.S. Insurance Industry
Sep 19 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that U.S. insurers, government and consumers are at great risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other weather-related events, according to a report by a Boston-based investor and...
Writing Wineries Requires More Than Just a Tasting
Sep 19 2005 // To be successful, you must thoroughly drink in all the details. Insuring wineries may sound like a lucrative and growing business. All 50 states now produce wine, and the business has a total economic impact of $33...
Hurricane Katrina: The Legal Saga Begins
Sep 19 2005 // The New Orleans tragedy may spawn a wave of litigation related to flood protection and levee failures. Public statements, which may serve as a foundation for massive public safety legal claims, began Sept. 1. Based on the...
Calif. Senate Approves Post-Disaster Insurance Bills
Sep 19 2005 // The California Senate has approved two bills designed to ease the process of rebuilding for victims of natural disasters in the state. Senate Bills 2 and 518 share a provision requiring insurance companies to pay the...
Calif. Chiropractors Nabbed in Scam
Sep 19 2005 // An El Dorado County, Calif., chiropractor and three Central Valley, Calif., chiropractors have been arrested on multiple felony counts, including insurance fraud. Richard Guadalupe Saucedo, 62, of Turlock, and Pedram...
