Latest California Headlines
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Brown Signs Electronic Proof Of Insurance Bill
Sep 7 2012 // Gov. Jerry Brown made California the seventh state in the nation to allow drivers to show proof of insurance coverage using their smart phone. Brown on Friday signed Assembly Bill 1708, a bill authored by Assemblyman...
Esurance Pay-Drive Filing Approved
Sep 7 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a personal auto filing by Esurance that will allow its policyholders to voluntarily participate in a pay-drive verified mileage auto program. Under the San...
IBA West Members To Vote On Name Change
Sep 7 2012 // IBA West is entertaining a name change. The group, which represents several thousand brokers and agents and is comprised of 31 affiliated local associations, announced a special meeting slated for Oct. 12 to consider a...
Moran Out as Calif. Workers’ Comp Admin Director
Sep 6 2012 // Rosa Moran, one of the members of Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Industrial Relations team that helped to hammer out a last-minute deal to reform California’s workers’ compensation system, has stepped...
California Brokers, Agents React to State Fund New Deal
Sep 5 2012 // Reaction to a decision by State Compensation Insurance Fund to restructure its broker distribution model has ranged from guardedly optimistic to visceral the day following the announcment. Under the new deal announced on...
Agents, Brokers to Deal with State Fund Wholesalers
Sep 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will now require most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. An estimated 3,500 agents and brokers will be...
California State Fund Restructures Broker Distribution
Sep 4 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed its broker distribution model, requiring most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. The change,...
Lawmakers Greenlight Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Sep 1 2012 // The state Legislature approved a reform bill for California’s $17-billion workers’ compensation insurance system, one that promises to hike benefits for injured workers and cut costs for employers, the L.A....
Assembly Passes Workers’ Compensation Changes
Aug 31 2012 // The state Assembly approved a series of changes to California’s workers’ compensation system Friday, voting on a 170-page bill that arose in the final days of the legislative session. The changes were sought by...
Workers’ Comp Bill Amended, Brown Pleads for Support
Aug 31 2012 // As Legislators rushed to amend and pass a bill that would reform California’s workers’ compensation system before the Friday’s midnight deadline, several late amendments were made that may give the bill a...
Leavitt Group Agencies Combine, Re-brand
Aug 31 2012 // The Leavitt Group is combining the capabilities of six of their top California agencies along with their Las Vegas, Salt Lake, and Atlanta offices. These agencies will re-brand collectively as the Leavitt Group. The...
SullivanCurtisMonroe Adds Lupia in Southern California
Aug 30 2012 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Chad Lupia, a property casualty consultant, to its Pasadena, Calif. office. Lupia was formerly with Momentous Insurance Brokerage. He has 13 years of sales, management and...
Poll: Confidence for Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dropping
Aug 29 2012 // Confidence in the state government to reform California’s unwieldy workers’ compensation system is falling as Legislators struggle to get buy-in on a bill to increase benefits for injured workers and address...
Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Running Low on Time
Aug 28 2012 // The numbers continue to change and time is running out on a workers’ compensation reform bill that has California legislators scrambling to come up with a compromise that promises to both increase permanent...
Jones Annual Report Details Consumer Protection
Aug 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has issued California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ annual report for 2011 that details CDI’s progress on its “ambitious consumer and business protection...
Study: Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Increases Costs $300M
Aug 27 2012 // A workers’ compensation reform bill was officially introduced on Monday, and the same day the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau issued a study saying the bill could produce a savings of...
Workers’ Comp Poll Wants Your Opinion on California
Aug 27 2012 // Negotiating parties have finally come to terms on wording for a bill to reform California’s workers’ compensation system. The bill, Senate Bill 863, was introduced late last week. It resulted from a meeting...
How Apple Outsmarted Samsung in Patent Dispute
Aug 27 2012 // In August 2010, just a few months after Samsung Electronics launched its Galaxy smartphone, a team of Apple Inc. lawyers flew to South Korea. Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, had already told Samsung executives...
California Health Rates Initiative Qualifies for 2014 Ballot
Aug 24 2012 // The California Secretary of State announced on Thursday that a ballot initiative to require health insurance companies to publicly justify and get approval for rate increases before they take effect has qualified for the...
Bill to Update Holding Company Act Passes Calif. Legislature
Aug 23 2012 // The California State Legislature has passed Senate Bill 1448, which updates California’s Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act. The bill was authored by Senate Insurance Committee Chairman Ron Calderon,...
