Latest California Headlines
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Calif. Agent Presented with InsurPac Recognition Award
Apr 11 2003 // Richard Dinger of Glendale, Calif., was recently honored with the InsurPac Young Agent Recognition Award bestowed annually upon the young agent or broker making the most significant impact on fundraising efforts for...
S&P’s Report Evaluates Calif.’s WC Market
Apr 11 2003 // Strict underwriting controls imposed on the California State Compensation Insurance Fund(SCIF) are one bright spot in a gloomy scene for workers’ compensation writers in the state, according to a new report by...
Medical Fee Schedule Measure is Vital to Reforming Calif.’s WC, Says AIA
Apr 10 2003 // Legislation to overhaul California’s workers’ compensation medical billing system is crucial to controlling escalating medical costs and would be a big step towards reforming California’s troubled...
Employers, Labor Leaders to Testify on Alarcón’s WC Bill
Apr 9 2003 // In a rare move, employers and labor leaders will both go before the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee in support of SB 228-authored by Senator Richard Alarcón (D) Van Nuys. SB 228 will be heard on April 9,...
Judge Rules in Favor of State Fund in A&J Liquor Class Action Suit
Apr 8 2003 // A tentative ruling in the class action lawsuit A&J Liquor Co. Inc., et al v. State Compensation Insurance Fund found in favor of California’s largest workers’ comp insurer April 7. San Francisco Superior...
Employers, Labor Leaders to Testify on Alarcón’s WC Bill
Apr 8 2003 // In a rare move, employers and labor leaders will both go before the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee in support of SB 228-authored by Senator Richard Alarcón (D) Van Nuys. SB 228 will be heard on April 9,...
ACIC Responds to CDI Notice on Insurers’ Use of Loss History Info. for Underwriting
Apr 7 2003 // The California Insurance Department’s draft advisory notice regarding insurance companies use of claims databases and loss history in underwriting and rating has far-reaching implications, oversteps its boundaries...
Fraud Ring Leads to Three Arrests
Apr 7 2003 // Three individuals were arrested after allegedly taking part in a large-scale auto fraud ring that involved lawyers, chiropractors and doctors from California. Juan Reyes Marrufo, 35, Maricela Armenta, 34, and Cristina...
Hard Market Hits California Homeowners
Apr 7 2003 // Credit scoring, CLUE reports become targets of Commissioner Garamendi’s Ire The hard market has hit California homeowners hard. State Farm, which had nearly 23 percent market share in the state in 2001 according to...
Are Cost, Availability of Calif. Homeowners Insurance at Crisis Proportions’
Apr 7 2003 // Today, the California personal lines industry is at the peak of a down cycle that has adversely affected the homeowners’ insurance marketplace. The downturn began in 2000, and worsened after the Sept. 11 attack on...
IBA West Sets Sail for Hawaii, May 4-8
Apr 7 2003 // With Hawaii as its backdrop, the 2003 IBA West Blue Ribbon Conference will be held at the Mauna Lani Resort May 4-8. As BRC chairman Jim Wells noted, “This is a time where networking is key. Who can put a price tag...
White Took a Chance and Built Alliance Insurance Services
Apr 7 2003 // In our continuing series on Agency Insights, we look at Bill White, president of California-based Alliance Insurance Services, who took quite a chance back in the mid-80s by putting his home up for sale when he went to...
UnionBanCal Acquires Tanner Insurance Brokers
Apr 4 2003 // UnionBanCal Corporation announced that UBOC Insurance Inc., a unit of its Union Bank of California, N.A., subsidiary, has acquired Pleasanton, Calif.-based Tanner Insurance Brokers Inc., one of the largest full-service...
CAP-MPT Passes Membership Milestone, Shows Solid Growth Trend
Apr 4 2003 // The Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc.-Mutual Protection Trust (CAP-MPT), a California provider of medical professional liability coverage, recently registered its 7,000th member in the course of setting records for...
CDI Orders Cease & Desist on Oriska Ins. Co.
Apr 4 2003 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) served a Cease and Desist Order on Oriska Insurance Company based in Oriskany, New York, following an investigation that...
Two Calif. Officers Involved in Insurance Fraud
Apr 3 2003 // A Merced County, Calif. sheriff’s detective and a deputy under investigation on suspicion of insurance fraud resigned and confessed to being involved in an off-duty felony criminal act, according to the Modesto...
PIFC Opposes SB 64 Homeowners Bill
Apr 3 2003 // Diane Colborn, vice president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), told the California Senate Insurance Committee recently that SB 64 (Speier), if passed, would have the unintended effect of reducing...
RAND Recommends Reforms of Calif. WC Courts
Apr 3 2003 // The system that resolves workers’ compensation disputes in California is failing to provide the swift justice required by law and needs to be reformed, according to a study by RAND’s Institute for Civil...
Over-utilization of Chiro. Care Hurting Calif. WC, AIA Says
Apr 3 2003 // Legislation to curb over-utilization of chiropractic care without physician oversight will help control the skyrocketing medical costs that are jeopardizing California’s workers’ compensation system, said the...
WCIRB Makes Rate Filing, Proposes Changes to Pure Premium Rates
Apr 3 2003 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) has submitted a filing with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending that pure premium rates be increased by 10.6 percent...
