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Mercury in California Ordered to Pay $27.5M for Unapproved Broker Fees
Jan 12 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones ordered Mercury Insurance to pay a fine of $27.5 million because Mercury auto insurance consumers were allegedly charged unapproved broker fees. Mercury did not obtain...
Stone Creek in California Names Garcia Agency Specialist
Jan 12 2015 // Andrea Garcia was named an agency specialist with Stone Creek Insurance Agency. Garcia’s focus will be to increase new personal and commercial lines business as well as help the service team accomplish a 95 percent...
California Insurance Commissioner Sponsored Bills Signed into Law in 2014
Jan 12 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones During the 2014 legislative session California Gov. Jerry Brown signed nine bills sponsored by California Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. A bill...
Former California Highway Patrolman Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 12 2015 // A former California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted in a case involving workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Sacramento County jury in December convicted Tony Yao on felony charges of failure to...
Business Moves
Jan 12 2015 // Brown & Brown, Global Benefit Strategies Florida-based national insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary Brown & Brown Metro Inc. has acquired certain assets of...
IICF Targets $250K to California and Colorado Charities
Jan 8 2015 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation is awarding $254,000 in grants to 29 local nonprofits in California and Colorado for the kickoff of 2015. The causes supported include child abuse prevention, disaster...
How States Rate on Insurance Regulation, ‘A’ to ‘F’
Jan 8 2015 // Vermont gets a grade of “A+” and California and North Carolina get grades of “F” in the annual report card on state insurance regulation issued by the free market think tank, The R Street...
Munich Re’s 2014 Nat Cat Review Highlights Low Loss Levels
Jan 7 2015 // Munich Re’s review of losses caused by natural catastrophes in 2014 confirms that it was indeed another benign year for the re/insurance industry. “The absence of very severe catastrophes and a quiet hurricane...
Clark Named President of Gorst & Compass in California
Jan 6 2015 // Gorst & Compass Insurance has named Bryan Clark president. Michael F. Heagerty, who was president and CEO, will assume the position of chairman and CEO. Clark began his insurance career in 1997 when he joined Gorst as...
West Named CEO and Chairman of Dealey, Renton in California
Jan 5 2015 // Morgan West Jr. has been named CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Dealey, Renton & Associates. West has been DRA’s president since Jan. 1, 2013 and will continue in this role as well. Al Chinn,...
Pacific Specialty in California Taps Roth, Forster
Jan 5 2015 // Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. has hired Cindy Roth as senior vice president of sales and distribution. Roth spent 10 years at The Hartford, the last three as the Southwest division executive. Among her first moves is the...
Earthquake Strikes off Coast of Northern California
Jan 2 2015 // The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a 5.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern California. The USGS says the quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean, about 70 miles west of Ferndale, California, and struck...
California Insurance Commissioner Sponsored Bills Signed into Law in 2014
Dec 31 2014 // During the 2014 legislative session California Gov. Jerry Brown signed nine bills sponsored by the California Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. A bill that adds protections for small businesses...
Immigrants Get Warning On California Driver’s Licenses
Dec 30 2014 // While tens of thousands of immigrants living in the United States illegally are preparing to apply for a long-sought driver’s license in California starting Jan. 2, others are being urged to think twice. Immigrant...
The Two Year Reduction in Natural Hazard Damage: A Long-Term Trend?
Dec 29 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Natural hazards continue to pose a significant risk to properties in the United States and abroad. As we near the close of 2014, it is important to take time to...
Immigration Reform, Driver’s Licenses Spell Opportunity for Latino Agents
Dec 24 2014 // Independent insurance agents who serve the Hispanic community may be in store for a busy year. Immigration reform is on next year’s horizon, and in California a landmark law enabling undocumented individuals to...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in California Amid Listeria Outbreak
Dec 24 2014 // The family of a California woman whose death was linked to prepackaged caramel apples sued the Safeway grocery chain for selling her the product. The lawsuit filed on Monday in Santa Cruz County Superior Court alleges that...
Bolton & Co. Opens Northern California Office
Dec 24 2014 // Bolton & Co. has opened an office in Santa Clara, Calif. to serve its clients in Northern California. Bolton’s Santa Clara office will serve a diverse client base, ranging from nonprofit organizations, technology...
Former California Highway Patrolman Convicted of Worker’s Comp Fraud
Dec 22 2014 // A former California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted in a case involving workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Sacramento County jury on Thursday convicted Tony Yao on felony charges of failure to...
California DMV to Miss Deadline for Autonomous Vehicle Rules
Dec 22 2014 // California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless”...
