Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Investigated California Medical Firm Forgoes $70M Workers Comp Claims
Oct 1 2009 // A Southern California medical management company accused of fraudulent workers’ compensation-related billing has dismissed $70 million worth of filed claims, the largest workers’ compensation mass dismissal of...
California Workers’ Comp CEO Frank Praised at Departure
Oct 1 2009 // The news that Janet D. Frank was leaving her position as CEO of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund occurred during a meeting of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation...
California’s Golden Bear Insurance Hires Smith as Vice President
Oct 1 2009 // Golden Bear Insurance Co. welcomes Todd Smith as vice president of its newly opened property underwriting office in the Flatiron Building located in San Francisco’s financial district. Prior to assuming his new...
California Agent Pleads to Investment Scam
Oct 1 2009 // A Southern California insurance salesman accused of blowing investors’ money on sports cars, a mistress and real estate has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and money-laundering charges. James R. Halstead entered the...
ClearSide General Agency Opens for Automobile Business in California
Oct 1 2009 // A new managing general agency named ClearSide General has opened in California, specializing in personal lines automobile programs. The new agency was started with the aim of servicing “the needs of the broker...
California Jury Orders Large, First-Ever Wildfire Environmental Damages
Oct 1 2009 // A Los Angeles jury Wednesday ordered two construction companies to reimburse the government for $36.5 million in damages from a 2002 wildfire, in the largest such award and the first-ever damages for environmental harm,...
California Takes Over Golden State Mutual
Oct 1 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company has been served an order of conservation and will discontinue selling new policies immediately. “My...
California Wildfire Victims Want Probe
Sep 30 2009 // People affected by the massive wildfire that burned about 250 square miles northeast of Los Angeles are calling for a federal investigation into what they say was a poor initial response to the blaze. Angry residents of...
California Settles Life Insurer Violations Case
Sep 30 2009 // California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that the Department of Insurance has reached a $600,000 settlement agreement with Life Insurance Company of North America (“LINA”) to...
California’s Ventura County Fire Contained
Sep 29 2009 // The 27-square-mile wildfire known as the Guiberson in Ventura County is 100 percent contained. However, it may be a few more days before it is fully extinguished, fire officials said. Ventura County Fire spokesman Bill...
California Jury Awards $49 Million for Accident
Sep 29 2009 // A Northern California jury has ruled that the state and two truckers are liable for $49 million in personal injury damages after an accident that left a college student with brain damage. The award is one of the largest...
California Wildfires Smolder in Low Wind
Sep 28 2009 // https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/09/01/103448.htm All but the most remote sections of a pair of major Southern California wildfires were contained Saturday, but officials warned that dangerous fire weather...
California’s Poizner Cheered at Republican Meeting
Sep 28 2009 // California Republicans spent much of their weekend convention soul-searching over the battered party’s future and debating a plan of attack for 2010, when they hope to capitalize on anti-tax protests and growing...
California Wildfire Evacuees Urged to File Living Expenses
Sep 25 2009 // California Department of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner reminded residents who have been evacuated due to the Guiberson Fire (Ventura County) that they may be eligible for reimbursement for additional living expenses...
October 7th Lunch Discussion: The State of California Workers’ Compensation…. not for the Faint of Heart
Sep 24 2009 // SAN DIEGO – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on October 7, 2009 with guest speaker Linda Smith,...
California Bill Saves Children’s Insurance
Sep 24 2009 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that will prevent nearly 700,000 low-income children from losing health insurance. Schwarzenegger signed the bipartisan bill Tuesday in the state Capitol restoring funding to...
Fire Rages in Ventura County
Sep 24 2009 // Another fire is raging in Southern California, stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds, as the state moves into its prime fire season. The fire is in the north of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and north...
California Sues Madoff ‘Middleman’ Chais for Fraud
Sep 23 2009 // California Attorney General Jerry Brown Tuesday sued Stanley Chais, a Beverly Hills money manager accused in lawsuits by investors and U.S. regulators of channeling hundreds of millions of dollars from Hollywood’s...
Noted California Insurance Lobbyist Passes Away
Sep 23 2009 // Long-time Sacramento lobbyist for California insurance agents and former Federal Bureau of Investigations investigator, Fred G. Dupuis, died last week in Marin County, where he had lived for 60 years. Dupuis was 93 years...
California’s Poizner Urges No Iranian Investments
Sep 22 2009 // Just ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Wednesday address to the United Nations in New York, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner encouraged his fellow state insurance commissioners to follow...
