Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ClearComp Delivers Evidence-Based Savings for Calif. Employers
Jun 30 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based ClearComp and Virginia-based e-Triage recently announced an innovative solution that will reportedly reduce workers’ compensation costs. The new service, Claim Navigator, promises to...
State Fund Awarded $135,000 in Fraud Case
Jun 30 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $135,000 in restitution from a San Diego County- based construction firm as part of the sentence in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. Ray Charles Gauthier...
ACIC Disappointed in Calif. Supreme Court Action
Jun 29 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) expressed disappointment in the June 28 decision by the California Supreme Court not to review a key case related to insurance rate regulation in the state. The...
Workers’ Comp Rates Decline; Rate Regulation Still an Issue for Lawmakers
Jun 28 2004 // Despite reductions in workers’ comp insurance premiums, California lawmakers will continue to debate the merits of rate regulation. After years of double-digit rate increases, many companies have filed with the...
Keenan Appoints Bonner to New Advisory Board
Jun 24 2004 // Torrance, Calif.-based Keenan, one of the largest privately held brokerage firms in the state, announced the appointment of Dale E. Bonner, Esq. to its Advisory Board of thought leaders to bolster its strategy and provide...
ACIC: Consumers Benefit From Committee Action
Jun 24 2004 // Action taken by the Assembly Insurance Committee on pending homeowner insurance bills will benefit consumers in California, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies. “Consumers are best served...
21st Century Chooses Lewisville for Texas Call Center
Jun 23 2004 // California auto insurer 21st Century Insurance plans to open a call center in Lewisville, Texas, that could introduce hundreds of new jobs over the next five years. The company said site construction and training is...
American Agents Alliance to Host Calif. Sen. Cedillo at July 7th Meeting
Jun 23 2004 // The American Agents Alliance will welcome Senator Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) to its July 7th meeting, to be held at 7:00pm at the Best Western Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach. The meeting, one of several the Alliance...
California Applicant Attorneys Attack Workers’ Compensation Reforms
Jun 23 2004 // Applicant attorneys, who have been lining their pockets with profits by abusing California’s workers’ compensation system, do not want to see their gravy train end so they are working to undermine the recently...
ACIC Opposes Rate Regulation Bill
Jun 22 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) is opposed to legislation that would establish a mandated rate regulation system for workers’ compensation insurance companies. “The bill would force...
Association Awards Golden Torch to IJ’s Publisher
Jun 22 2004 // Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and InsuranceJournal.com and CEO of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s (IMCA) 2004 Golden Torch Award...
Association Awards Golden Torch to Insurance Journal’s Publisher
Jun 22 2004 // Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and InsuranceJournal.com, and CEO of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s (IMCA) 2004 Golden Torch Award....
CDI RECEIVES $110M ON BEHALF OF EXECUTIVE LIFE POLICYHOLDERS:
Jun 21 2004 // The California Department of Insurance announced it has received $110 million on behalf of California policyholders of insurance sold by Executive Life Insurance Company (ELIC) and its 330,000 former policyholders. The...
Former Broker Arrested in $4M Fraud Scam
Jun 21 2004 // Richard W. Peterson, 63, of San Francisco, a former insurance broker/agent, was arrested at Miami International Airport on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling approximately $4 million of fake insurance policies...
California Court Ruling Undermines Insurance Commissioner’s Authority
Jun 21 2004 // A ruling by the California Court of Appeals undermines state regulation and the authority of the insurance commissioner by essentially declaring rate filings approved by the Department of Insurance as invalid according to...
People and Places
Jun 21 2004 // Pete Brown Concord, Calif.-based Jenkins Athens Group has named Pete Brown to its board of directors. Brown, the company’s former president, founded Athens Administrators in 1976 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of...
Fire Insurance Bills Advance In Calif. Legislature
Jun 18 2004 // Prompted by last year’s devastating firestorms, insurance-related bills that would help future disaster victims are gaining momentum as they move through the Legislature, reports the Association of California...
Everest Re Responds to Questions Concerning California Workers Comp Business with AARIS
Jun 17 2004 // The Barbados-based Everest Re Group, Ltd. has taken the relatively unusual step of issuing a press bulletin concerning its business relations with California workers comp insurer American All Risk Insurance Services, Inc....
SB 1315 Would Leave Calif. Consumers Without Insurance Coverage
Jun 17 2004 // Senate-passed legislation pending before a key Assembly committee is unconstitutional and would, if enacted, leave consumers without insurance coverage, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies...
California Court Ruling Undermines Insurance Commissioner’s Authority
Jun 14 2004 // A ruling by the California Court of Appeals undermines state regulation and the authority of the insurance commissioner by essentially declaring rate filings approved by the Department of Insurance as invalid according to...
