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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...
Wildfire Victims Question Industry’s Cost Calculator
Jul 12 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...
Calif. Holocaust Survivors Seek Class Action Status of Lawsuit
Jul 9 2004 // Roman Rakover, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, believes he is the sole beneficiary of two life insurance policies taken out by his father around 1930 in the amount of $20,000 each. He has a vivid memory of his father...
Calif. Commissioner Identifies Steps for State Fund to Reduce Workers’ Comp Rates
Jul 9 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released a statutorily mandated report on the State Compensation Insurance Fund’s (SCIF’s) potential to reduce workers’ comp rates based on his review of its...
Alliance Mourns Passing of Member Cheryl Epple
Jul 8 2004 // The American Agents Alliance is saddened to announce the passing of 17-year Alliance member Cheryl Ann Epple. Cheryl passed away on July 5, 2004 due to a heart attack. Along with her sisters, Nelda Rueter and Terri...
AIA: California Work Comp Reforms Produce Average 26 Percent Rate Shift
Jul 7 2004 // The American Insurance Association announced that recently enacted reform legislation passed in 2003 and this past spring has prompted a 26 percent swing in average workers’ compensation rates. Conducted by AIA, a...
SB 899 Workers’ Comp Classes Scheduled in California
Jul 7 2004 // To help agents gain insight and clear understanding of SB 899’s many changes, Insurance Skills Center will be running SB 899 workshops in July. The class will be offered on the following dates and will take place at...
Gov. Schwarzenegger Appoints Three Members to State Fund Board
Jul 6 2004 // 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. “Reinvigorating the...
Association Awards Golden Torch to Insurance Journal Publisher Wells
Jul 5 2004 // Mark Wells Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and Insurance Journal.com and chief executive officer of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s...
Association Awards Golden Torch to Insurance Journal’s Publisher
Jul 5 2004 // Mark Wells 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...
Calif. Lawmakers Continue to Debate Merits of Workers’ Comp Rate Regulation
Jul 5 2004 // Despite reductions in workers’ comp insurance premiums, California lawmakers will continue to debate the merits of rate regulation. A rate regulation bill, ABX4 No. 16, after passage in the Assembly on a party-line...
Association Awards Golden Torch to Insurance Journal’s Publisher
Jul 5 2004 // Mark Wells Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and Insurance Journal Online and CEO of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s (IMCA) 2004 Golden...
People and Places
Jul 5 2004 // David Molchan David Molchan has been appointed as regional advertising manager for Insurance Journal East. Molchan has extensive experience in business-to-business advertising sales and ad sales management at several trade...
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...
