Latest California Headlines
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California Pair Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 17 2004 // An Inyokern, Calif. couple who reportedly bilked the workers’ compensation system out of more than $76,000 in a disability scheme was sentenced to prison Nov. 16 on the charges and ordered to pay $102,706 in...
ADR, Fiserv FSC Announce Integrated Motor Vehicle Record Reports in California and Arizona
Nov 17 2004 // American Driving Records (ADR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Advantage Corporation and Fiserv FSC Inc. announced the launch of a new software interface that will allow California and Arizona insurance agents to order...
Garamendi Recommends 2.2 Percent Reduction in Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rates
Nov 17 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi called for a 2.2 percent reduction pure premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance in a Nov. 17 conference call to the media. “My current advice to the...
CRM Offers New Workers’ Comp Program for California Health Care Workers
Nov 16 2004 // In an effort to help alleviate the shortage of affordable workers’ compensation insurance for California’s sizable health care industry workforce, Compensation Risk Managers (CRM) has begun offering coverage to...
Brown & Riding Opens Office in Woodland Hills
Nov 15 2004 // Brown & Riding Insurance Services announced the opening of new offices in Woodland Hills, California, the firm’s third office location. The new office, located in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown...
Calif. CPCU Chapter Volunteers Feed the Hungry
Nov 15 2004 // On Oct. 16, 12 volunteers from the Los Angeles and El Camino CPCU Chapters, some accompanied by family members, met at the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank to make Senior Food Packages and to separate donated food items for...
California Leads the Nation in Auto Theft Rates for 2003
Nov 15 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 ten hottest spots for vehicle theft rates are in California, while the...
Two Southeast States Could Reconsider Anthem/WellPoint Merger
Nov 11 2004 // Georgia and West Virginia are two southeast states that could reconsider their earlier approval of the Anthem Inc./WellPoint merger, after California’s $265 million concessions package in California. Seven other...
AIA: CAAA Lawsuit will Undermine Workers’ Compensation Reforms
Nov 11 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) issued the statement below in response to the lawsuit filed by the California Applicant Attorneys Association (CAAA) challenging the regulations regarding Medical Provider Networks...
Calif. Senator to Hold Hearing for Wildfire Victims to Voice Issues with Industry
Nov 10 2004 // Community Assisting Recovery, CARe, a nationally recognized non-profit disaster recovery assistance organization, announces that survivors of the 2003 California wildfires and their more fortunate neighbors will be able to...
Anthem and WellPoint Announce Merger Approval by CDI
Nov 9 2004 // Anthem Inc. and WellPoint Health Networks Inc. announced that John Garamendi, Commissioner of the California Department of Insurance (CDI), has granted his approval for their pending merger. In July of this year, the...
Looking at the Med-Mal Crisis from Both Sides
Nov 8 2004 // Insurance Journal National Editor Andrea Ortega-Wells recently moderated a “Take Two” debate discussing the hot topic of medical malpractice, and what, if any, reforms are needed. The debate features Paula...
RemedyTemp to Appeal Workers' Comp Case Appeals Court Ruling
Nov 8 2004 // The California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA), will not be held responsible for covering workers’ comp claims filed by 500 of the staffing agency’s employees who were insured by insolvent carrier...
Legislative watchdogs put a fresh spin on traditional lobbying techniques
Nov 8 2004 // Lobbying has been around for as long as any single profession has been around, but it has changed. It isn’t what it used to be,” said John Norwood, managing partner of Norwood & Mattoch, one of...
Three Arrests in California Fraud Case
Nov 8 2004 // An investigation has resulted in three arrests on felony insurance fraud charges. The case, stemming from an investigation by the Santa Clara County Urban Auto Task Force–investigators from the California Department...
Underinsured Homeowner Problem Revisited on Anniversary of Calif. Wildfires
Nov 8 2004 // Replacement cost, policy limits, and non-renewal of policies were the source of a heated debate in a day-long hearing investigating underinsured homeowners affected by last year’s wildfires. California Insurance...
Calif. Commissioner Proposes New Broker Regulations, AG Steps In
Nov 8 2004 // In response to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s charges against super brokerage Marsh McLennan, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi proposed new regulations for agents and brokers Oct. 20 which...
Former Bay Area Insurance Agent to Serve Jail Time
Nov 5 2004 // On Oct. 27, Herbert Amos Jones, of Bethel Island, Calif., pled guilty in Contra Costa Superior Court to one felony count of grand theft. Jones, a former California-licensed insurance agent and regional vice president of...
A.M. Best Upgrades Rating for Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California
Nov 4 2004 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) of Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC). The rating outlook is stable. According to Best, the rating...
Husband, Wife Sentenced for Ins. Fraud, Other Felonies
Nov 4 2004 // On Oct. 12, 2004, Gregory Keating, 44, of Riverside, Calif., and his wife, Elaina Keating, 36, also of Riverside, were sentenced for their Aug. 12 guilty pleas to various charges. Gregory Keating, who pled guilty to felony...
