Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Bass Underwriters Opens Northern California Office
Jan 11 2005 // Florida-based Bass Underwriters Inc. has announced that the opening of their Northern California division that provides service to California. The office is located at 3433 American River Drive, Suite A, Sacramento, CA...
AIA: Attorneys Call for Workers’ Comp Rate Regulation
Jan 7 2005 // Democratic lawmakers and attorneys are using the recently implemented workers’ compensation reforms as a tool in their game to undermine Gov. Schwarzenegger’s track record, according to the American Insurance...
Calif. Commissioner Announces Restitution Settlement for Some San Diego County Fire Survivors
Jan 6 2005 // Standing with survivors of the devastating 2003 Southern California wildfires, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Jan. 6 announced a $128,707.92 settlement with a...
California Approves Workers’ Comp Self-Insurance Group for Private Schools
Jan 6 2005 // Facing the ever-increasing workers’ compensation costs, a group of private schools recently was approved by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Office of Self-Insurance Plans to begin operating a...
Calif. Chiropractor, Two Associates Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Scam Costing More than $10 Million
Jan 6 2005 // A Modesto, California chiropractor and two employees were arrested early Thursday on charges that they repeatedly billed for services that were unnecessary or never rendered from 1996 through 2004, potentially costing...
Governor’s Plan Putting Calif. Workers’ Comp Market on Right Track, Says ACIC
Jan 5 2005 // Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan for reform of the troubled California workers’ compensation system is already putting the state’s system on more stable footing, according to the state’s...
Calif. Agent Arraigned on Charges Stemming from Bogus Insurance Certificates Scam
Jan 4 2005 // A Stockton insurance agent allegedly working with a revoked license was arraigned Jan. 4 in San Joaquin County Court on 111 felony counts following an eight-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
Calif.-based Battistini & Canfield, Thoits Insurance Merge
Jan 3 2005 // Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Battistini & Canfield Insurance Services is merging with Thoits Insurance of Mountain View, Calif.; one of the countries’ largest 100 percent employee-owned insurance firms. The combined...
GARAMENDI ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF LOW COST AUTO OUTREACH CAMPAIGN:
Jan 3 2005 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the initial results of the aggressive outreach campaign launched in August 2004 to enroll eligible Los Angeles drivers in the California Low Cost Auto Insurance Program...
EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE ANNOUNCES CALIF. WORKERS’ COMP PROGRAM:
Jan 3 2005 // Everest National Insurance Company announced it has been writing California workers’ compensation business on a direct retail business since October 2003 from its Western Regional Office in Orange, Calif. During its...
Insurance Marketing and Communications
Jan 3 2005 // How to Produce Client Seminars As we develop our marketing and communications plans for 2005, one of the most effective ways a broker can provide a customized service to its clients is by producing educational seminars on...
2003-2004 California Year-End Legislative Repo
Jan 3 2005 // A summary of the most important legislation affecting the industry in the New Year The historic recall of Gray Davis and election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California set the tone for the 2004 legislative...
Californians Deal with Winter Storms, Potential Floods
Dec 30 2004 // Californians this week are once again dealing with the effects of a fierce rainy season. No California county is immune from the risk of flooding. In the past 10 years alone, there have been three large-scale, widespread,...
Governor Proposes New Worker’s Compensation Rules
Dec 30 2004 // The Schwarzenegger administration has released a sweeping set of regulations aimed at revising how doctors evaluate permanent injuries to workers and how much compensation they are paid. The new regulations, unveiled last...
Battle Looms Over Ga. Medical Liability Reform Legislation, Its Effect on Premiums
Dec 29 2004 // Storm clouds are looming over medical liability reform legislation about to be introduced in the 2005 Georgia General Assembly which would make it harder for insurance companies to raise their rates and thus, supposedly...
CDI Inquires About Zenith’s Broker/Agent Arrangements
Dec 28 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. announced that its California domiciled insurance subsidiaries have received letters of inquiry from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) requesting...
SCIF Captures $14.6 Million Judgment Against Pair of Calif. Businesses
Dec 27 2004 // In one of the largest awards of its type in the history of California’s workers’ compensation system, State Fund has won a $14.6 million judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga businesses that reportedly used an...
Toland Joins Westrope’s Calif. Office as Casualty Broker
Dec 22 2004 // Twelve-year-old Kansas City, Mo.-based wholesaler Westrope announced the addition of Scott Toland as a casualty broker in its Irvine, Calif., office. Toland comes to Westrope from the AIG Cos., where he provided...
Calif. Mother Arrested in “Stuffed Passenger” Auto Insurance Accident Case
Dec 22 2004 // Ebony Kirk, 25, of Sacramento, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail for falsely reporting herself as a passenger in an auto accident occurring on Aug. 19, 2003. She was charged with four felony counts of...
Proposed Calif. Producer Compensation Regulation Confusing, Unnecessary Says ACIC
Dec 22 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) strongly criticized a proposed California Department of Insurance regulation on insurance agent and broker practices because the measure is overly broad, poorly...
