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State Farm Agrees to Cut Rental Rates in California by 40%
Oct 19 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday announced he has obtained an agreement from State Farm General Insurance Co. to reduce their rental dwelling program policyholders’ rates statewide by an...
California Commissioner Issues Decision on Workers’ Comp Regulatory Filing
Oct 19 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued a decision regarding the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Jan. 1, 2017 regulatory filing submitted to the California Department of Insurance in...
Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows. A report released this week by the Oregon...
New California Workers’ Comp Law on Excluded Employees Causing Headaches
Oct 17 2016 // In advance of a possible headache brewing for workers’ compensation providers, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday notified all workers’ comp insurers writing policies in the state about...
Earthquake Policy Sales up, and May Continue to Rise Following ShakeOut
Oct 17 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv It’s still a few days until the annual Great ShakeOut earthquake drills during which people in homes, schools, and organizations practice what to do during earthquakes – the events...
California Commissioner Awards $34.9M to Fight Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 13 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced he has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 44 counties across California to combat workers’ compensation insurance...
Looking at Injured Worker Benefits from California Comp Reforms out to 2020
Oct 13 2016 // Will workers’ compensation benefits from California’s sweeping reform law passed in 2012 help or hurt injured employees over the next four years? Some people didn’t want to wait until 2020 to answer that...
Toyota Has Issues with California’s Plans for Self-Driving Safety Check List
Oct 12 2016 // A Toyota Motor Corp. official is raising concerns about California’s plans to require compliance with a planned U.S. autonomous vehicle safety check list, calling it “preposterous.” Hilary Cain, director...
EPIC Adds Newton to Auto Dealer Specialty Program in California
Oct 11 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Gerrad Newton a producer within its auto dealer specialty program team in Sacramento, Calif. Newton will be focused on workers’ compensation and garage liability for...
Heffernan in California Names Taylor Assistant Vice President
Oct 11 2016 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named James Taylor assistant vice president in Heffernan’s benefits advisory services department. Taylor joined Heffernan in 2014 as an account executive...
Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Once Again in Front of California Voters
Oct 10 2016 // For the second time in six years, California voters will consider legalizing recreational use of marijuana. This time, supporters of the move have much more financial backing and professional campaign help than they did in...
Why Claims Under Americans with Disabilities Act Are Rising
Oct 7 2016 // Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III lawsuits are up 63 percent over 2015, according to law firm Seyfarth Shaw. ADA Title III prohibits businesses open to the public from discriminating on the basis of...
California Comp Report Shows High IE and OC Medical and Indemnity Payments
Oct 6 2016 // Average medical and indemnity payments on claims were much higher in San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Imperial counties than the rest of the state, according to the latest Regional Score Card issued by the California...
CAL Insurance in California Names Jacobs Assistant Vice President
Oct 6 2016 // San Francisco, Calif.-based CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Stafford Jacobs III assistant vice president, and property/casualty insurance advisor. Jacobs has nearly 20 years of experience. He previously was a...
Lien Consolidation Court, Fraud Part of Focus at California Comp Conference
Oct 5 2016 // The state’s top two labor officials were understandably high on the impact they expect two bills recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will have on California’s workers’ comp system and bad actors who have...
RIC in California Taps Clansen and Kaneko for Senior Vice President Roles
Oct 4 2016 // Santa Rosa, Calif.-based RIC Insurance General Agency has named Tom Clansen senior vice president the firm’s commercial lines brokerage and underwriting division, and Garett Kaneko senior vice president of the sales...
Hub Acquires California-Based Sweet & Baker Insurance Brokers
Oct 4 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired San Francisco, Calif.-based Sweet & Baker Insurance Brokers Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bruce Callander, president of Sweet & Baker, will join Hub California and...
California Workers’ Comp Board Submits Amended Rate Filing to Department of Insurance
Oct 4 2016 // The WCIRB has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing Jan. 1, 2017 advisory pure premium rates lower than the corresponding industry average and less than the average...
Former Women’s Coach at California University Awarded $3.35M
Oct 4 2016 // A jury has awarded $3.35 million to Beth Burns, the former women’s basketball coach for San Diego State who claimed she was fired for being a whistleblower. Burns prevailed in a suit that claimed she was wrongfully...
Berkshire’s Applied Underwriters Defends Workers’ Comp Products, Says Brokers Should Not Be at Risk
Oct 3 2016 // Legal and regulatory squabbles in New York, California and other states involving Berkshire Hathaway and its Applied Underwriter affiliates over particular workers’ compensation products should not have any negative...
