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2018 Agents of the Year
Jan 7 2019 // Jacob Barzivand Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, California Jacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable...
States Surprised with Burst of Insurance Fraud-Related Legislation in 2018
Jan 7 2019 // Lawmakers Debated More Than 100 Fraud-Related Bills and Passed 33 into Law The introduction of new bills slows down during years when legislators tend to be more concerned with reelection. That’s why 2018 was such a...
California Supreme Court Upholds Commissioner’s Regulatory Actions Against PacifiCare
Jan 4 2019 // The California Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision upholding California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations, paving the way for millions of dollars in...
Dentists Benefits and Northwest Dentists to Merge With The Dentists Insurance Co. in California
Jan 4 2019 // Dentists Benefits Insurance Co. and Northwest Dentists Insurance Co., acquired by The Dentists Insurance Co. in 2017, have merged into parent company TDIC. The merger was effective Jan. 1 after final regulatory approval....
California County to Pay $5M in Torture-Killing of Girl
Jan 4 2019 // The city and county of Napa in Northern California will pay $5 million to relatives of a 3-year-old girl who was tortured and killed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. The San Francisco Chronicle says a...
California Commissioner: Impact of COIN Investments Estimated to Reach $29B
Jan 3 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday issued a report today detailing the progress of the California Organized Investment Network during his administration. COIN is a program within the California...
Southern California City Asking Residents for Suggestions on Battling Climate Change
Jan 3 2019 // The city of Long Beach, Calif. is soliciting help from its citizens to come up with a plan to deal with climate change. The coastal city of roughly half-a-million, which was an early adopter of the ban on plastic bags and...
$10M Penalty in Wells Fargo California Case, Can’t Do New Business Until at Least 2020
Jan 2 2019 // Wells Fargo has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty as part of a settlement agreement with the California Department of Insurance. The settlement with the CDI, announced on Wednesday, resolves the department’s...
California Wildfires: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jan 2 2019 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. The last few months of 2018 were record-setting and heartbreaking for the survivors of wildfires in California. The Camp Fire in Butte County quickly became the most...
Prosecutors Say California Fires May Mean PG&E Violated Criminal Sentence
Jan 2 2019 // A California utility’s role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal sentence in a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people, federal prosecutors...
Warren G. Bender Adds Makis as Personal Lines Account Executive in California
Dec 31 2018 // Warren G. Bender Co. has named Stephen Makis an account executive in its personal lines department. He has more than 16 years of experience in providing personal insurance consultation throughout California and other...
Ascot Expands U.S. Marine Team With Johnson and Factor in California
Dec 31 2018 // Ascot has named Chris Johnson and Jocelyne Factor as underwriters in the U.S. marine team. Both will be based in the new San Francisco office, expanding Ascot’s geographic footprint to the West Coast. Johnson, senior...
Lawyers Scramble to Get Piece of the Action in California Wildfire Lawsuits
Dec 31 2018 // In a conference room 13 miles from Paradise, California, Doug Boxer explains to survivors of the state’s worst wildfire why they should choose his law firm to sue PG&E Corp. He walks a fine line between listening...
Insurance Journal West’s Top Stories for 2018: California Commissioner Race, Hawaii Lava, Wildfire Losses
Dec 31 2018 // Another year down, and too many fascinating news headlines to count. Hawaii’s lava, the race for California insurance commissioner, and a $23 million ruling in a lawsuit against Geico were among the most popular...
Chamber’s List of 2018’s ‘Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits’
Dec 31 2018 // A lawsuit targeting California coffee houses for not including warning labels on their products tops the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s (ILR) list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2018. This...
Woodruff Sawyer in California Names Schmidt Senior Vice President
Dec 28 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff Sawyer has named Dan Schmidt a senior vice president in the healthcare practice. Schmidt will be a member of the San Francisco team and will also be implementing an office based in...
BevMo in California Warns of Customer Credit Card Data Breach
Dec 28 2018 // BevMo is warning that a data breach may have allowed a hacker to steal credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who used the alcohol-seller’s website. The Concord, Calif.-based...
Most Insurers to Increase Payments to California Wildfire Victims Without Itemization
Dec 28 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said this week that most insurers were following a notice he issued requesting that residential property insurers provide at least 75 percent and up to 100 percent of contents...
5 Lessons to Take Away from the California Wildfires
Dec 28 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The California wildfires of 2018 were devastating, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, costing numerous lives and destroying thousands of properties. The California Department of...
California Regulators May Break up PG&E Over Safety Concerns
Dec 27 2018 // California regulators said they are considering splitting up Pacific Gas & Electric Co. or making other drastic changes amid concerns over the utility’s role in recent gas explosions and wildfires. Among the...
