Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACIC Opposes Low Cost Auto Program
Jul 11 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies remains opposed to legislation that would expand California’s pilot, low-cost auto insurance program from two counties to statewide, according to ACIC President Sam...
IRC Study Reports Auto Injury Medical Treatment Varies from State to State
Jul 11 2005 // Auto injury claimants from four states seek different types of medical treatment, even though they report similar injuries. A new study of insurance claims by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) examined auto injury...
State Selects Sacramento Firm to Study Workers’ Comp System
Jul 11 2005 // The state of California has selected Bickmore Risk Services of Sacramento to conduct an analysis of the effect of recent legislative reforms on workers’ compensation insurance rates and the insurance market. BRS...
Security Breach Laws Should Concern Insurers, NAMIC Says
Jul 8 2005 // Differences in the 19 security breach notification laws enacted so far this year should be of concern to insurers conducting business in multiple states, according to an analysis by the National Association of Mutual...
Calif. Panel Approves Measure Requiring Insurers to Explain Why Policies are Declined
Jul 7 2005 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee approved an amended measure that will now require insurers to provide an explanation to consumers when policies are declined, canceled or non-renewed, reported the American...
Alliance Files Court Briefs On Behalf of Agents, Brokers
Jul 5 2005 // The American Agents Alliance has filed two briefs with the California Supreme Court in an attempt to protect insurance producers from fallout resulting from a recent Appellate Court ruling. On June 30 the state Supreme...
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty on Two Counts, Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 5 2005 // John Arcurio, 49, of Fillmore, plead guilty June 22, to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and insurance fraud. Arcurio was arrested in Kern County and transferred to the County of Ventura Superior...
Calif. Department of Insurance Chief Lists Expectations for Market Conduct
Jul 4 2005 // Joel Laucher, chief of Market Conduct at the California Department of Insurance, recently spoke to attendees at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Inland Marine Under-writers Associa-tion about Calif-ornia’s requirements...
Disclosure, Marketing Dominate Young Brokers and Agents Conference
Jul 4 2005 // Agents and brokers must unite and work together so that their industry is able to flourish despite recent challenges involving broker disclosure, participants learned at IBA West’s Young Brokers and Agents Conference...
Calif. Chiropractor, Legal Arrested
Jul 4 2005 // An Encino chiropractor and her legal assistant have been arrested and charged with two counts each of insurance fraud following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Fraud Division. Chiropractor Nasrin...
ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL:
Jul 4 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The bill is SB 603 by Sen....
Making a Difference
Jul 4 2005 // Recently it was brought to my attention that the Insurance Information Network of California became the recipient of the prestigious Silver Anvil award for their efforts in dispersing information after the 2003 California...
People & Places
Jul 4 2005 // Suzanne Matheson Suzanne Matheson has joined Los Angeles-based Elkins/Jones Insurance Agencyas vice president. Previously, Matheson was managing director at Tegner Miller in Santa Monica with iMANAGEMENTgroup, which she...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends from Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jul 4 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society Spring...
Calif. Commissioner Discusses Workers’ Comp, Homeowners’ Insurance
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Insurance Journal Online Editor Dave Thomas regarding SB 938, “use it and lose it” practices against...
Editor’s Note: Making a Difference
Jul 4 2005 // Recently it was brought to my attention that the Insurance Information Network of California became the recipient of the prestigious Silver Anvil award for their efforts in dispersing information after the 2003 California...
Calif. Department of Insurance Chief Lists Expectations for Market Conduct
Jul 4 2005 // Joel Laucher, chief of Market Conduct at the California Department of Insurance, recently spoke to attendees at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association about California’s requirements...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
Calif. Assembly Committee Says No to Credit Scoring Ban
Jul 1 2005 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee voted down SB 603, authored by Senator Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento), which would have banned insurers’ use of credit-based information. “We are pleased the committee...
