Latest California Headlines
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Dunlap Joins Collier Shannon Scott as Gov’t Relations Advisor
Jul 30 2004 // Washington, D.C.-based law firm Collier Shannon Scott announced that John Dunlap joined the firm as a Government Relations Advisor. Based in Sacramento, Dunlap will help clients navigate California’s political and...
Calif. WCIRB Makes 2005 Regulatory Filing
Jul 29 2004 // On July 28, 2004, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) submitted its annual regulatory filing to the California insurance commissioner. In its filing, the WCIRB proposed advisory premium rates...
Eisenhart, Vogelman Join Calif.-based Agency Management Resource Group
Jul 29 2004 // Cheryl L. Koch, owner of Agency Management Resource Group of Lincoln, Calif., a provider of consulting and training services to independent agents and companies, announced that Mary M. Eisenhart has joined the firm as...
IHI Insurance Services, Cal State Fullerton Develop Claims Examiner Education Program
Jul 27 2004 // In an effort to curb an impending crisis, the University Extended Education department at Cal State Fullerton announced that it has started accepting registrations for the Fall 2004 semester for the State University...
Wash., Calif. Agencies Newest Members to ISU Network
Jul 21 2004 // ISU International President, T.J. Ryan III, announced the addition of the newest members to ISU’s national network of agencies effective July 1: ISU Insurance Services—Connor & Kelly of Spokane, Wash.; and ISU...
California Legislative Committee Takes Action on Homeowners Bills
Jul 19 2004 // The Assembly Insurance Committee took action on several pending homeowners insurance bills in late June. According to the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC), consumers will benefit from the recent...
California Annuities Training – Are You Ready for the 12/31/04 Deadline’
Jul 19 2004 // Last summer, when we weren’t looking, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 620 (SB 620) and enacted new insurance producer training statutes at section 1749.8 of the Insurance Code. This new California law...
People and Places
Jul 19 2004 // Richard Kingsley Richard Kingsley, owner of Stayton, Ore.-based Cammack-Kingsley Insurance Inc., has been elected president of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho. He served as president-elect of the...
Construction Defects Burning a Hole through the Residential Contractors Market
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
CALIF. GOV. APPOINTS THREE MEMBERS TO STATE FUND BOARD:
Jul 19 2004 // Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the appointments of Jeanne Cain, Kent Dagg and Vincent Mudd to the State Compensation Insurance Fund Board. Cain was also named chairwoman by the governor....
Wildfire Victims Question Industry’s Cost Calculator
Jul 19 2004 // Don Robinson says his Residence Mutual insurance policy pegged the cost of replacing his San Diego home at $233,000. After Southern California’s wildfires destroyed the 40-year-old biologist’s four bedroom...
ACIC DISAPPOINTED IN CALIF. SUPREME COURT ACTION:
Jul 19 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) expressed disappointment in the decision by the California Supreme Court not to review a key case related to insurance rate regulation in the state. The Court...
ACIC Supports Mediation Bill For Fire Victims
Jul 15 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) has announced its support of mediation legislation that would be available to help victims of last years’ Southern California wildfires. “This is a...
California Brothers and Employee Arrested in Alleged Felony Fraud Case
Jul 14 2004 // Brothers Sam Saeid Afghani, of Agoura Hills, Calif., and Siamac A. Afghani, of Calabasas, Calif., as well as employee Renee Laws, of Encino, Calif., were to be arraigned July14 for their suspected roles in a fraud case at...
S&P: Mercury Casualty Co., Affiliates Ratings Affirmed
Jul 13 2004 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘AA’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Mercury Casualty Co. and Mercury Insurance Co. as well as its ‘AA’ financial strength rating...
Study: MICRA Cuts Malpractice Awards by 30%
Jul 13 2004 // A landmark California law that caps non-economic awards in medical malpractice lawsuits has cut defendants’ payments by 30 percent to plaintiffs who win such lawsuits at trials, according to a RAND Corporation study...
Garamendi Announces Downward Trend in California Workers’ Comp Rates
Jul 13 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that received workers’ compensation rate filings illustrate a downward trend, but still fall short of his pure premium rate advisory of -20.9 percent issued on May 28,...
Calif. Building, Reconstruction Costs at All Time High
Jul 13 2004 // Salt Lake City-based Castle Data Services, a nationwide provider of residential replacement cost data, announced the results of a comprehensive statewide review of California building costs. The results showed that while...
Tangram Program Managers Opens Chicagoland Office
Jul 13 2004 // Tangram Program Managers & Insurance Services, a managing general underwriter and alternative risk program manager based in Northern California, announced it has opened a Chicago area office. Led by Al Janes, the new...
California State Fund’s Fraud Program Nets $5 Million from Fraud Convictions
Jul 12 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund’s anti-fraud program has enabled statewide district attorneys to win more than $5 million in restitution orders. The restitution judgments are a direct result of 155 premium fraud...
