Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Calif. School District Sued Over Sex Ed Program
Aug 23 2012 // A school district in California’s Central Valley is putting teens’ health at risk by failing to provide students with information about condoms and contraception, two parents and a coalition of groups said in a...
Poll: Little Faith for Lasting Workers’ Comp Reforms in Calif.
Aug 22 2012 // People overwhelmingly believe workers’ compensation premiums will rise if no reforms come out of a bill currently in the works in state Legislature to increase benefits for injured workers and reduce waste in the...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Losses, Expenses Reach Over $12B
Aug 21 2012 // A report issued on Tuesday by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows workers’ comp insurers’ loss and expense payments rose to nearly $12.5 billion in 2011, an increase of over $1...
Bill to Align California with Dodd-Frank Passes Legislature
Aug 21 2012 // The California State Legislature has passed Senate Bill 1216, which aligns California law with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, with unanimous support. SB 1216 was authored and carried by Sen....
You Tell Us: Can California’s Workers’ Comp System Be Fixed?
Aug 21 2012 // How do you contain upwardly spiraling costs, battle growing use and prescription of opioids, fight fraud, de-incentivize bad actors, all while sailing directly into political headwinds flowing from all the compass...
Calif. Sues Doctor Over Aggressive Billing Tactics
Aug 20 2012 // The California attorney general’s office is suing a Los Angeles County doctor over her practice of refusing to accept lower insurance company reimbursements and instead billing patients for the full amount. The...
Bondholders, Insurers Challenge San Bernardino Bankruptcy
Aug 20 2012 // Bondholders and bond insurers are challenging the eligibility of San Bernardino, California, to file for bankruptcy protection, claiming the city provided no financial information to its creditors. Their court filings...
