Latest California Headlines
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Alliance Disappointed with CA Legislature’s Efforts to Pass Needed Workers’ Comp Reform
Sep 20 2001 // For the third year in a row, the California legislature has come up short in its efforts to increase workers’ compensation benefits while enacting badly needed system reforms, according to the Alliance of American...
Calif. State Assembly Defeats Controversial Financial Privacy Bill
Sep 18 2001 // Following a late night debate, the California State Assembly voted to defeat a controversial financial privacy measure that would have given California the most complicated and confusing privacy law in the nation, the...
Mold Legislation Reaches Calif. Governor’s Desk
Sep 17 2001 // A California toxic mold bill reached Gov. Gray Davis’ desk on the evening of Sept. 13. The bill, SB 732, would enact the Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001. It charges the California Department of Health Services with...
Frontier Pacific Insurance Co. Conserved
Sep 10 2001 // San Diego-based Frontier Pacific Insurance Company was conserved Friday in a move by California Insurance Commissioner Harry W. Low. The ruling came as a result of the company being found insolvent. Domiciled in...
AIA Applauds Passage of Bill Protecting Important Safety Net for Injured Workers
Sep 10 2001 // The California State Senate and Assembly voted to approve a measure that will raise the surcharge on workers’ compensation insurance premiums to protect the solvency of the workers’ compensation account within...
Fear of the Unknown–The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers (Part II) By Catherine Tapia
Sep 10 2001 // By Catherine Tapia This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims, which continues its exploration of specific mold-related lawsuits in California: determining...
Construction Defect, Mold Issues Considered During Last Days of Calif. Session
Sep 10 2001 // The last day of the 2001 California legislative session, Sept. 14, is rapidly drawing near. Among the remaining bills whose fate hangs in the balance are two which, if passed, would have varying degrees of impact on...
Fear of the Unknown-The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers
Sep 10 2001 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims. See IJ, Aug. 27, 2001, for Part I. Part II Determining causation A major aspect of the ongoing...
WORKERS’ COMP BILL FALLS SHORT
Sep 10 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), SB 71 (Burton & Calderon), a bill moving through the California Legislature, doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
8 INSURERS FEEL FIRE RISKS
Sep 10 2001 // In seven western fire-prone states, eight large property and casualty insurers are exposed to 74.5 percent of the home insurance risk, according to a recent analysis by Weiss Ratings Inc. States ranked by acres burned from...
Insurance Legislation for Hate-Crime Victims Moves to Gov. Davis
Sep 10 2001 // I think more and more folks are getting comfortable at least to the point of neutrality now.” That is one insurance industry spokesman’s take on AB 1193, a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from...
Bill to Increase Workers’ Comp Benefits Doesn’t Solve System’s Problems, AIA Says
Sep 7 2001 // A bill approved by the California State Assembly does not go far enough to balance benefit increases with cost-saving reforms to California’s workers’ compensation system, according to the American Insurance...
Calif. E-mail Bill Awaits Gov. Davis’ Decision
Sep 5 2001 // A bill that would prevent employers from reading employees’ communications on work e-mail addresses passed the California State Assembly and now awaits Gov. Gray Davis’ signature. The bill, originally sponsored...
Auto Club Says Higher Percentage of Southland Boating Accidents Involve Personal Watercraft
Sep 4 2001 // As water lovers get ready to head out for beach and river trips during the last few weeks of summer, the Automobile Club of Southern California warned boaters to take safety precautions when using boats and personal...
Incoming NAPSLO President Focuses on Regulatory Issues, Technology
Sep 3 2001 // When John Latham steps down as president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) in San Antonio later this month, Tapley O. Johnson, Jr., will take on the office as incoming president and...
Calif. Bill Could Threaten Investigation of Insurance Fraud
Aug 31 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), California Assembly members are poised to vote on a bill that would “hamstring” insurers’ ability to conduct investigations when they...
Attempts at Workers’ Comp Reform Could Hurt Agents, Small Business
Aug 30 2001 // According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), a workers’ compensation bill moving its way through the California Legislature doesn’t go far enough in attempts to reduce costs to reform the...
Weiss Says 8 Insurers Are Exposed to 74.5% of Homeowners Risk in Western Fire-Prone States
Aug 28 2001 // In seven western fire-prone states, just eight large property and casualty insurers are exposed to 74.5 percent of the home insurance risk, according to a recent analysis by Weiss Ratings Inc., a provider of independent...
California Legislative Committees Approve Two Privacy Measures
Aug 28 2001 // The California Assembly Judiciary Committee approved a controversial financial privacy bill on a partisan vote of 7 to 3. The measure, SB 773 sponsored by Senator Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), would create an...
Politics Can Lead to Bumps in the Road for Auto Insurance
Aug 27 2001 // Overregulation in the auto insurance industry may be an accident that has already happened in some states; but regulators can look to other states as examples of how regulatory requirements can be uniform and yet flexible...
