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Looking Back on ’04: The Most Talked-About Stories in the Western Region
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...
Authorities Nab Correctional Officer in Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Dec 16 2004 // A former Folsom Prison Correctional Officer was arrested Dec. 15 after an investigation into alleged workers’ compensation fraud in which investigators video-taped her using a jet ski, a water slide, and performing...
ELAN Files Calif. Public Records Act Request with Commissioner to Release $4B in Policyholder Losses
Dec 16 2004 // The Executive Life Action Network (ELAN), an activist group of former Executive Life Insurance Co. policyholders, has filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request with Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi urging...
Garamendi Announces Results of Low Cost Auto Outreach Campaign
Dec 16 2004 // 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...
American Agents Alliance Characterizes CDI’s Proposed Regulations “Unacceptable”
Dec 10 2004 // The American Agents Alliance is continuing to call for the defeat of California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s proposed regulations relating to broker disclosures, terming the proposal...
State Fund Collects $550,000 in Restitution from Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Dec 10 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund collected $550,000 as the first installment of a total $677,693.00 owed to the Fund from a Los Angeles business owner who pleaded no contest to felony workers’ compensation insurance...
PCI Seeks Changes to Proposed Rule on Producer Compensation in Oregon
Dec 9 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has voiced its general support of the Oregon Insurance Division’s effort to establish an objective way to determine when an insurance broker must make...
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...
