Latest California Headlines
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FSC Makes Available Automated Solution for CDI Homeowners Premium Survey
Mar 10 2003 // Fiserv FSC, Inc. announced that with CapFSC, California insurers can now, with one person, in less than one day, do what used to take a team of employees days or weeks to accomplish. CapFSC is a dependable and accurate...
Lodi, Calif. Man Pleads Guilty
Mar 10 2003 // A Lodi, Calif. man was arrested on numerous felony charges as a result of a joint investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division, the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office, the...
EPLI Market on the Run
Mar 10 2003 // It is often said that every situation has a light at the end of the tunnel, but the employment practices liability scene may have to squint just a little harder to see those rays of hope while higher prices, more courtroom...
EPLI-Higher Prices, More Claims, Tighter Underwriting
Mar 10 2003 // It is often said that every situation has a light at the end of the tunnel, but the employment practices liability scene may have to squint just a little harder to see those rays of hope while higher prices, more courtroom...
Fourth Annual Educational Forum Set for April 17 in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mar 6 2003 // The Mt. Diablo Chapter CPCU and the Insurance Industry Charitable Fund-Child Abuse Prevention Program (IICF-CAPP) are presenting their Fourth Annual Insurance Educational Forum “Insuring the Future” for the...
Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Calif. Earthquake Law
Mar 5 2003 // A California law allowing homeowners to renew insurance claims from the 1994 Northridge earthquake was upheld March 3 by a federal appeals court, according to the Associated Press. The law was challenged by insurers in an...
Calif. Commissioner Enlists Help of DAs to Reform WC System
Mar 5 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi pushed his workers’ comp reform agenda further along by enlisting the help of the state’s 58 county district attorneys (DA) in combating employee and employer...
Calif. Commissioner Orders SCIF to Reduce Broker Commissions
Mar 4 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi held a press conference March 3 addressing the workers’ compensation crisis in California. Specifically, Garamendi proposed a seven point plan to return State Compensation...
Calif. Commissioner Enlists Help of DAs to Reform WC System
Mar 4 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi pushed his workers’ comp reform agenda further along by enlisting the help of the state’s 58 county district attorneys (DA) in combating employee and employer...
CAPP Backs Federal Effort to Control Medical Liability Crisis
Mar 3 2003 // As the nation continues to face a medical malpractice crisis, the U.S. House of Representatives has sought the experience of Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP). CAPP is a broad-based coalition dedicated to...
Calif. Commissioner Orders SCIF to Reduce Broker Commissions
Mar 3 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi held a press conference March 3 addressing the workers’ compensation crisis in California. Specifically, Garamendi proposed a seven point plan to return State Compensation...
Calif. WCIRB Anticipates Results of Terrorism Study
Feb 28 2003 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) engaged EQECAT in Jan. 2003, a nationally recognized catastrophe modeling firm, to prepare an analysis of potential terrorism losses in...
AIA Approves Calif. Commissioner’s WC Reform Ideas
Feb 28 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has correctly identified many of the serious problems plaguing the state’s workers’ compensation system and the critical solutions that are vital to improving the...
Calif. Commissioner will Not Appeal BOE Premium Tax
Feb 28 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced he is not appealing the Board of Equalization’s unanimous decision that overturned former Commissioner Low’s determination that the gross premium tax...
Calif. Commissioner Targets Ailing Workers’ Comp System
Feb 27 2003 // Based on recommendations from two stakeholder advisory panels, Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is proposing immediate action in seven areas to restructure California’s ailing workers’ compensation...
Quackenbush – Up Close and Personal
Feb 24 2003 // When I returned from lunch one recent afternoon and cleared out my phone messages, one struck me immediately. The message was from a ‘Chuck Quackenbush’ and said that California’s former insurance...
Broker Fees Raise Questions in Mercury Lawsuit
Feb 24 2003 // A lawsuit filed by a private citizen questioned the legality of broker fees being collected by Mercury Insurance Company producers, according to the American Agents Alliance. A preliminary ruling in the San Francisco...
Calif. Commissioner Garamendi to Speak at the IICF Kick-Off Luncheon
Feb 24 2003 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Fund (IICF) is getting the ball rolling with its annual Kick-Off luncheons, where it will share its objectives in bringing the insurance industry and the community closer...
Time to Jump on the Employee Benefits Bandwagon’
Feb 24 2003 // In some respects, the world of employee benefits seems to be on a roll. The Indepen-dent Insurance Agents & Brokers Association (IIABA) reports that about 26 percent of the U.S. agencies examined in its “2002...
NAII Notes All States Have Addressed Privacy Legislation
Feb 24 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National Association of...
