Latest California Headlines
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Farmers Exchange Sues Calif. Body Shop
Jul 17 2002 // Farmers Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange began serving summons and complaints July 16 upon a Contra Costa County, Calif. body shop and its owners, accusing them of taking part in a large scale scheme...
Mendoza Critical of Garamendi as Calif. Commissioner Race Heats Up
Jul 17 2002 // Gary Mendoza, Republican Nominee for Insurance Commissioner, has criticized John Garamendi’s attempt to reportedly create more political patronage positions in the Department of Insurance. A column in the July 15...
State Farm Consolidating Calif. Facilities
Jul 17 2002 // State Farm’s California management has given the go-ahead for a statewide consolidation of claim and business administration offices, including the closing of the major operation centers in Westlake Village and Costa...
Wexler Named EVP at Calif.-based Balboa Group
Jul 10 2002 // Irvine, Calif.-based Balboa Insurance Group announced the appointment of Howard Wexler as executive vice president, secretary & general counsel. Wexler will be responsible for overseeing the legal and compliance areas...
Mendoza Releases Poll Showing Gains on Garamendi Lead in Calif. Commissioner Race
Jul 10 2002 // The campaign of Gary Mendoza, Republican Nominee for California Insurance Commissioner, released a poll July 9 that shows the GOP candidate gaining ground on Democrat John Garamendi. The poll of 600 California voters by...
Former Calif. Agent Arrested on Felony Warrant
Jul 9 2002 // A joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Criminal Investigations Branch and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office lead to the arrest of Jesse Mendoza. Mendoza was arrested on a...
Calif. Senate Bills 1763, 1427, 1678 See Action
Jul 8 2002 // Property and casualty insurers and agents and brokers alike can breathe a little easier after a recent California assembly committee hearing on June 26… if only for the time being. The hearing saw some interesting...
As Hard Market Persists, E&S Brokers Wait For The Right Opportunity
Jul 8 2002 // Last January separate panels of analysts who follow the insurance industry and CEO’s of insurance companies predicted a “foreshortened” cycle, a brief hard market that would give insurers little relief...
Employers of Nev. Acquires Fremont Comp
Jul 4 2002 // Employers Insurance Company of Nevada (EICN) has acquired California-based Fremont Compensation Insurance Group’s book of business, effective July 1. Fremont Comp is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fremont General...
Mold: California’s Ticking Time Bomb’
Jul 2 2002 // California insurers have a ticking time bomb on their hands according to many in the industry. Others, however, say the supposed bomb is being blown out of proportion. Who do you believe? The reported bomb is mold, and...
Calif.-based Active Photo Deployed by OneBeacon
Jul 2 2002 // OneBeacon Insurance Group has expanded the deployment of the ActivePhoto Mobile Imaging Solution from the initial states of Massachusetts and Connecticut to its New Jersey, New York, and Maine offices. California-based...
Calif. Resident Arrested on Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud, Grand Theft
Jul 2 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of a southern California man for workers’ compensation insurance fraud and...
CDI Serves Cease & Desist Order on Harbour Insurance
Jun 28 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has served a cease and desist order to Clarence Joseph Hall a/k/a Joseph Hall a/k/a Joe Hall of Harbour Special Events, Harbour Entertainment & Sports, Harbour Sports...
Former Calif. Teacher Arrested for Alleged Auto Fraud
Jun 27 2002 // Jeremy Christian Brickner, 25, of Sacramento, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on one count of insurance fraud. The arrest was the result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
King Not Renewing Calif. Homeowners, Renters, Condo Policies
Jun 25 2002 // California-based King Insurance recently forwarded a notice to all of its producers, informing them that the company’s homeowners, renters and condo policies showing renewal effective dates of Aug. 8, 2002 and later...
Plaintiff’s Bar Tracking Mold
Jun 24 2002 // Depending on whom you talk to, mold is either the end of the insurance industry or just a lot of media hype. This issue focuses on the homeowners market and it’s current mold dilemma with three features. “Mold:...
Sound Science, Not Lawsuits, Will Solve Mold Dilemma
Jun 24 2002 // Almost daily, media outlets around the country run stories on people getting sick or abandoning their homes because of mold. Schools, fire stations, court houses, private homes – any kind of building is seemingly at...
PIFC, NAII Counter DMV’s Proposed Rate Hike for Records Access
Jun 20 2002 // A public hearing June 18 at California’s DMV headquarters to discuss proposed Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) regulations to raise fees to access public drivers license information heard strong opposition from...
Standard and Poor’s Lowers Sterling Casualty Ratings to ‘BBpi’
Jun 19 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its counter party credit and financial strength ratings on California-based Sterling Casualty Insurance Co. to double-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because of the...
Camino, Calif. Resident Arrested on Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Jun 19 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Camino man on one felony count of insurance fraud and one count of attempted perjury. John Eugene...
