Latest California Headlines
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Nearly Dozen Arrested for $2 Million California Insurance Fraud Scam
Apr 4 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrests of nearly one dozen alleged Bay Area fraud perpetrators. Eleven subjects were arrested over the past week on numerous felony counts including insurance...
California Legislature Considers Changes to State Workers’ Comp Insurer
Apr 2 2008 // California’s Legislature will hear testimony today regarding operations of the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer. Senate Bill 1145 will be heard by the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance...
California Appeals Court: SCIF Erred in Denying Access to PPN
Apr 1 2008 // A California Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s primary workers’ compensation insurer cannot deny an occupational medical clinic from its preferred provider network because it impaired the...
California Legislature Considers Insurance Bills
Apr 1 2008 // California’s legislature is considering several insurance-related bills this session. Following is a synopsis, as summarized by the Association of California Insurance Companies, of bills still pending. *Assembly...
California Trio Arrested for International Auto Insurance Fraud
Mar 31 2008 // Three individuals have been arrested in California for allegedly being involved in a five-person conspiracy that resulted in a vehicle owned by one of the conspirators driven to Mexico where it was “chopped”...
California Assembly Considering Insurance Agent-Broker Bill
Mar 31 2008 // A bill that would help to clarify when an insurance professional is acting in the capacity of a broker versus an agent in California is scheduled come before the state Assembly Insurance Committee no later than April 16,...
California May Create New Bond Insurer to Rival Buffett’s
Mar 28 2008 // California Treasurer Bill Lockyer is exploring the possibility of having state pension funds create a new bond insurer, his spokesman said Thursday. Lockyer has no immediate plans to use Berkshire Hathaway’s new bond...
California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Not Filing Mid-Year Rate Change
Mar 28 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has announced it has decided not to file for a mid-year pure premium rate change. Accepting a recommendation made by the WCIRB Actuarial Committee, the...
California Labor Commissioner Nails Salons for Illegally Classifying Employees
Mar 28 2008 // Officials with the California State Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (Labor Commissioner’s Office) issued 52 citations totaling $156,000 in fines to Northern California spas and beauty salons in a recent...
Preferred Employers Introducers Medical Provider Network for California Businesses
Mar 26 2008 // San Diego-based Preferred Employers Insurance Co., which specializes inworkers’ compensation insurance for small employers in California, has created a medical provider network for treatment of work related injuries....
Research: Hands-Free Law Might Not Make California Roads Safer
Mar 26 2008 // A growing body of evidence suggests California requiring adult drivers to use hands-free devices with their cell phones will do little to reduce crashes. Research shows being a distracted driver is not necessarily about...
California Court Allows Policyholders To Question Farmers’ Fees
Mar 25 2008 // A California Court of Appeals has allowed policyholders in the Farmers Insurance Exchanges to question alleged excessiveness of management fees charged to them by Farmers Group Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich...
Cochrane Opens California Branch; Hires Additional Staff
Mar 25 2008 // Spokane, Wash.-based Cochrane & Co., a managing general agency, has announced the opening of their Southern California branch in Brea, Calif. Cochrane & Company is a regional, multi-line wholesale broker offering...
New Markets
Mar 24 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Contractors Nuts & Bolts: Lemac &...
Starbucks To Pay $106 Million, Cannot Pool Tips
Mar 24 2008 // San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett has ordered Starbucks to pay more than $100 million in tip pool money to employees because she said the coffee chain used tip money to pay shift supervisors, a practice...
Group Criticizes California Commissioner For Not Dropping Uninsured Motorist Initiative
Mar 24 2008 // Consumer advocacy and public policy research group The Greenlining Institute is questioning whether California Commissioner Steve Poizner made a “masked attempt to target the poor.” According to a letter sent...
California Auto Club Affiliate, Settles Suit, Will Refund $22.5 Million
Mar 24 2008 // The insurance affiliate of the Automobile Club of Southern California (the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club) will issue $22.5 million in refunds to approximately 120,000 policyholders to resolve lawsuits...
California Tahoe Fire Commission Wants Federal Aid
Mar 24 2008 // A commission created after a Lake Tahoe blaze destroyed more than 250 California homes voted unanimously to seek state and federal emergency declarations to combat what it says is an imminent threat of catastrophic...
Commerce Department to Consider West Coast Salmon Disaster
Mar 24 2008 // The Bush administration said it recognizes the seriousness of the potential shutdown of ocean salmon fishing off Oregon and California this year and will consider as soon as possible whether to declare a federal fisheries...
Study: California Hayward Fault Earthquake Could Cause $165 Billion in Losses
Mar 21 2008 // An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude or greater on California’s Hayward Fault, in the heart of the San Francisco Bay area, could impact more than 5 million people and impact more than $1.5 trillion in property and...
