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Insurer Association Urges Calif. Legislators to Ban ‘Crash Taxes’
May 4 2011 // California’s Senate Public Safety Committee held a hearing yesterday, evaluating the need to ban local governments from charging accident response fees or “crash taxes” for emergency responses to vehicle...
$11M in Calif. Insurer Investments Go to Underserved Communities
May 4 2011 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Speaker John A. Pérez announced that $11 million in new insurance company investments will benefit underserved communities across California. In February, the commissioner sent a...
Calif. Agents: Tread Carefully When Providing Workplace Safety Advice
May 4 2011 // Woe to the employer who is not attentive and actively engaged in health and safety.” That’s the warning the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is giving employers in the Golden...
Calif. Attempts to Rein in Workers’ Comp Compound Drug Costs
May 3 2011 // California legislators are considering a bill aimed at reigning in the use of compound drugs in workers’ compensation claims. According to Assembly Bill 378, existing law provides that it is unlawful for a physician...
California Legislators Consider Underinsured Motorist Bill
May 2 2011 // A California Assembly committee is considering a bill that would eliminate the authority of the insurer to deduct the amount paid to the insured by or for any person or organization that may be held legally liable for the...
Turner Joins California Women’s Insurance Association
May 2 2011 // J.D. Turner, a partner at the law firm of Lorber, Greenfield & Polito LLP, in Poway, Calif., has joined the Insurance Women of North San Diego County, an affiliation of the National Association of Insurance Women,...
Pending State Legislation to Implement NRRA Is Fly in the Ointment
May 2 2011 // Pending state legislative proposals, such as California’s AB 315, that would implement the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (NRRA) are akin to the fly in the ointment. The NRRA becomes effective on July...
How to Find Cyber Insurance for the Uninsurable
May 2 2011 // The University of California (UC) has redefined the rules of cyber liability insurance, using an approach that the university’s Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette calls “reverse underwriting.”...
Business Moves
May 2 2011 // Zenith AgriBusiness Solutions In what appears to be its first foray into offering liability coverages, Zenith Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation insurance specialist, is offering agribusiness insurance in...
Calif. Commissioner Seeks Stricter Penalty Powers
May 2 2011 // California Sen. Noreen Evans, D-District 2, has introduced legislation to grant explicit authority to the state Insurance Commissioner to order restitution as part of an administrative enforcement action against an...
Agents: Tread Carefully When Providing Workplace Safety Advice
May 2 2011 // Woe to the employer who is not attentive and actively engaged in health and safety.” That’s the warning the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is giving employers in the Golden...
Japan Quake Reveals Cracks in Insurance System
May 2 2011 // Michael Korn, managing principal at Integro Insurance Brokers, is a popular person these days, which is perhaps not too surprising considering he is an insurance broker in earthquake-prone San Francisco. “We’re...
Bragging About an Agent’s Book of Business May Create a Greater Legal Duty of Care
May 2 2011 // It has often been said that every attorney has a little larceny in his heart. In similar fashion, it could be said that every insurance agent has a little puffery in his heart regarding his book of business, background and...
EPIC Honored as ‘Best Place to Work’
Apr 29 2011 // California-based EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” for the fourth...
Fentanyl Often Prescribed in Calif. Workers’ Comp
Apr 29 2011 // A CWCI Research Spotlight Report on the use of fentanyl – the most potent Schedule II opioid – in California workers’ comp finds that More than 1 out of every 5 injured workers in California who are...
Calif. Bill Proposes Consolidating Insurance Disclosure Notices
Apr 28 2011 // California legislators are considering whether to allow certain insurance policies and disclosures to be consolidated into one document, printed in smaller type. Currently, the law requires an insurer, upon receiving...
Calif. Commissioner Jones to Attend Insurance Charity Dinner
Apr 27 2011 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) has announced that California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will be in attendance as a special guest at the IICF Annual Benefit Dinner being held Thursday, May 19,...
With Oracle’s Ellison as Foreman, Calif. Jury OKs $470K in Slip & Fall
Apr 27 2011 // Larry Ellison is famous for wanting to be in charge, so perhaps it is no surprise that when jury duty came calling, Oracle’s chief executive served as the foreman. And for a woman who slipped in diesel fuel at a...
Sequioa to Offer Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance in California
Apr 22 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a filing by Sequoia Insurance Co. to offer Pay-as-You-Drive auto insurance coverage. The Monterey, Calif.-based firm joins Automobile Club of Southern California...
S. Martinelli & Co. Tries to Salvage Merchandise in Calif. Fire
Apr 22 2011 // A warehouse fire that began April 20 in Watsonville, Calif., continues to burn, according to fire officials. Meanwhile, one of the clients, S. Martinelli & Co., the maker of Martinelli’s apple juices and ciders,...
