Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.Y. Moves Against Balboa Insurance Co.’s Handling of Homes Served by Volunteer Firefighters
Dec 9 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the Balboa Insurance Company has agreed to initiate immediately training for all of their company’s underwriters in the wake of an on-going New...
Plaintiffs’ Legal Team Not Surprised with Not Guilty Plea in Calif. Vehicular Manslaughter Case
Dec 9 2004 // Geoffrey Wells, who represents more than 11 of the plaintiffs in their wrongful death or personal injury civil suits against the City of Santa Monica, California arising out of the July 16, 2003 Santa Monica Farmers’...
Calif. Contractor Associations, Unions Form Trust to Administer Workers’ Comp Carve-Out Program
Dec 7 2004 // Northern California contractors and unions representing carpenters, laborers and operating engineers have formed a labor-management trust to administer a collectively bargained workers’ compensation carve-out...
ACIC Releases Statement on Workers’ Comp Reforms
Dec 7 2004 // The following is a statement presented to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee Dec. 7 on workers’ compensation reforms. The statement by Jeff Fuller, ACIC’s executive vice president and general...
Calif. Releases 2005 User Funding/Fraud/Uninsured Employer & Subsequent Injury Fund Rates
Dec 6 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2005 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
Self Insured Solutions Forms California’s First Agricultural Workers’ Comp Self-insured Group
Dec 6 2004 // Following up on the establishment of the California Contractors Network — a self-insured group (SIG) for high-risk employers — Self Insured Solutions has created California’s first Agricultural...
Keeping Up with Insurance Brokerage Investigations
Dec 6 2004 // Recent Key Developments in Ongoing Probes of Marsh, Other Brokers and Insurers Marsh ‘Hopeful’ of Quick Settlement Marsh & McLennan has been in constant contact and cooperation with New York Attorney Eliot...
California Leads Nation in Auto Theft Rates for 2003
Dec 6 2004 // No South Central states in the top 10 list. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2003, car thieves were most active in California. Six of the nation’s 10 hottest spots for...
California Leads the Nation in Auto Theft Rates for 2003
Dec 6 2004 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2003, car thieves were most active in California. Six of the nation’s 10 hottest spots for vehicle theft rates are in California, while the...
Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California Celebrates 15 Years
Dec 6 2004 // Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC), a nonprofit, charitable risk pool specializing in 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. NIAC, based in Santa Cruz, Calif.,...
Extra! Commissioners Disclose Policy
Dec 6 2004 // One of the mini-stories within the super-sized brokerage scandal is how state insurance commissioners, at least the appointed rather than elected ones, are very much like the industry they regulate when it comes to the...
People & Places
Dec 6 2004 // Camilla Marlowe Camilla A. Marlowe was appointed vice president of Irvine, Calif.-based SullivanCurt-isMonroe Insurance Brokerage. Marlowe specializes in employee benefits consulting. She has 23 years of experience in the...
Keeping Up with Insurance Brokerage Investigations
Dec 6 2004 // Recent Key Developments in Ongoing Probes of Marsh, Other Brokers and Insurers Marsh ‘Hopeful’ of Quick Settlement: Marsh & McLennan (MMC) has been in constant contact and cooperation with New York...
AIA: CAAA LAWSUIT WILL UNDERMINE WORKERS’ COMP REFORMS:
Dec 6 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) issued a statement in response to the lawsuit filed by the California Applicant Attorneys Association (CAAA) challenging the regulations regarding Medical Provider Networks (MPNs)...
OTHER STATES COULD RECONSIDER ANTHEM MERGER:
Dec 6 2004 // Georgia and West Virginia may reconsider their approval of the Anthem Inc./WellPoint merger, after learning about California’s $265 million concessions package. Seven other states, plus Puerto Rico, may decide to...
CRM Names Walczyk as COO
Dec 2 2004 // Irvine, Calif.-based Risk Managers of California, LLC (CRM) announced the appointment of a new chief operating officer. Chet Walczyk, a veteran workers’ compensation insurance executive with more than 25 years of...
Tevis Insurance Files with CDI for License to Sell Workers’ Comp in California
Dec 2 2004 // San Francisco-based Tevis Insurance Company announced that it has filed an application with the California Department of Insurance to become a new workers’ compensation insurance carrier. The application will be...
$126M Ga. Agreement Could Pave Way for Anthem-WellPoint Merger
Nov 30 2004 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine and Anthem Inc. have reached an agreement in which Anthem will pledge $126 million to improve rural health care for the poor in Georgia – in return, Oxendine agreed to...
Calif. Commissioner Reacts to Latest Workers’ Comp Rate Filing From the SCIF
Nov 30 2004 // Since July 2003 California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reduced the state’s pure premium advisory rate by 22.6%. This includes his most recent recommendation of Nov. 17, when he lowered the rate by 2.2%....
California’s SCIF Files an Average 5% Rate Decrease
Nov 29 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it has filed with the California Department of Insurance an average rate decrease of 5 percent on new and renewal workers’ compensation policies with renewal dates on or...
