Latest California Headlines
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P.A.P.A to Lead Malpractice Protest Starting April 28th
Apr 22 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Politically Active Physicians Association (P.A.P.A.) announced that a statewide protest aimed at reforming medical liability insurance laws will begin on April 28. The bulletin said the organization...
Calif. Commissioner Increases Access to SCIF for Small Employers
Apr 21 2003 // Reaffirming his instruction that it remains California’s “insurer of last resort,” Commissioner John Garamendi directed the State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) to ease access requirements for...
Discriminatory Privacy Bill Still Circulating Calif. Legislature
Apr 21 2003 // For the past four years, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has been in a fight to avoid “a solution in search of a problem”—a financial privacy measure that has been approved by the California State...
CWCI STUDY EXAMINES CHIROPRACTIC UTILIZATION AND COSTS IN CALIF. WC
Apr 21 2003 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) has issued new research showing the combined effect of an increase in the number of chiropractors treating fewer injured workers with higher levels of...
ACIC’S 14TH ANNUAL GENERAL COUNSEL SEMINAR SET FOR JULY
Apr 21 2003 // Insightful speakers and informative panels will present the most up-to-date overviews of issues affecting P/C insurers writing business in California during the Association of California Insurance Companies’ 14th...
Calif. Public Works Ops Manager Arrested for WC Fraud
Apr 21 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division arrested Doyle E. Champlain, 45 of Orangevale, Calif., without incident on five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of attempted perjury. On...
Calif. Man Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Apr 21 2003 // Samuel Tufino Machado, 22, also known as Salvador Castaneda, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on two felony counts of insurance fraud with special allegations that the crimes were committed while he...
Credit Scoring – Agents, Carriers Look to Bridge Divisions
Apr 21 2003 // Give them credit—both agents and carriers have made credit scoring an issue that the industry can’t turn its back on. From studies to hearings, the issue has soared to become one of the top three or four issues in...
IIABA Conference Welcomes Agents, Brokers to D.C.
Apr 21 2003 // Agents and brokers called Washington, D.C. home for several days earlier this month as they brought a number of industry issues with them to the 27th National Legislative Conference. As Jeff Myers, Independent Insurance...
Credit Scoring – Agents, Carriers Look to Bridge Divisions
Apr 21 2003 // Give them credit—both agents and carriers have made credit scoring an issue that the industry can’t turn its back on. From studies to hearings, the issue has soared to become one of the top three or four issues in...
Employers, Fremont Employers Report 4Q and Full Year Financial Results
Apr 18 2003 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, A Mutual Company (the “Company”), a leading provider of workers’ compensation products and services, reported its statutory financial results for the fourth quarter...
Alliance Study Says P/C Guaranty Fund Assessments Hit 15-Year High
Apr 17 2003 // Payments by private insurers to state property/casualty guaranty funds have hit a 15-year high, spurred by increased insolvencies, according to a study by the Alliance of American Insurers. Net assessments paid by...
U.S. Healthworks and Alternative Solutions Pays $900,000 for Reported Failure in Reporting First Aid Cases to Carriers
Apr 17 2003 // Following an investigation into alleged unfair business practices due to the failure to send Doctor’s First Report of Injury to workers’ compensation insurance carriers, U.S. Healthworks and Alternative...
Flurry of Calif. Workers’ Comp Bills to be Heard April 30
Apr 17 2003 // Wednesday, April 30, 2003 is shaping up to be a milestone for the California workers’ compensation system. On that day, the California Senate Insurance Committee is expected to hear 60 percent of the Assembly...
S&P’s Report Evaluates Calif.’s WC Market
Apr 14 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...
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...
