Latest California Headlines
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Calif. Holds Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing
Oct 23 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is holding a hearing today to receive testimony from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) regarding its pure premium rate recommendation of 5.2...
Insurers Say Calif. Wildfire Claims May Reach $500 Million
Oct 23 2007 // Exclusive Video California Wildfires: Insurance Industry Assesses Impact California Wildfires: Insurers On Site at Evacuation Centers The insurance industry is estimating that the damage from the wildfires in southern...
More than 600 Southern California Homes Lost to Unchecked Wildfires
Oct 23 2007 // Hundreds of homes were reduced to ashes Monday as wildfires blown by fierce desert winds raced across a huge swath of Southern California extending from Malibu to the Mexican border, forcing a quarter of a million people...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Bureau Recommends Increasing Rates 5.2%
Oct 22 2007 // California’s Workers’ Comensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September. In September, WCIRB...
California Wildfire Threatens Pepperdine U., Upscale Neighborhoods
Oct 22 2007 // A wildfire driven by powerful Santa Ana winds in California’s Malibu Hills on Sunday threatened a university, destroyed at least one home and forced the evacuation of hundreds more, authorities said. About 400...
Tapco Introduces Vacant Property and Builders’ Risk Programs in Calif.
Oct 18 2007 // Burlington, N.C.-based Tapco Insurance Services Inc. has introduced a vacant property and builders’ risk program to agents in California. TAPCO opened its California location in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2007. Program...
Engle Martin Opens Sacramento Office
Oct 17 2007 // Engle Martin & Associates Inc., a national independent insurance adjusting and claims administration firm based in Atlanta, is extending its presence in California by opening a Sacramento office to cover the northern...
Gallagher Named Calif. State Fund Employee Services Manager
Oct 17 2007 // Eileen Gallagher has been promoted to employee services manager for California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Human Resources Department. Gallagher brings more than 17 years of workers’ compensation...
G.J. Sullivan Appoints Dwyer To Manage New Northern Calif. Office
Oct 17 2007 // G.J. Sullivan has appointed Terrence Dwyer branch manager of the company’s new Northern California branch office located in Oakland. Dwyer has more than 20 years experience managing wholesale brokerage and managing...
The Doctors Co. to Grow by Acquiring Calif. Medical Liability Insurer, SCPIE
Oct 17 2007 // Physician-owned liability insurer The Doctors Company is expanding its market by acquiring SCPIE Holdings Inc., a provider of healthcare liability insurance in California and Delaware. Following the merger, The Doctors...
Calif. Governor Refuses Again to Raise Benefits for Disabled Workers
Oct 16 2007 // For the second year in a row, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to raise benefits for disabled workers that critics say were slashed too deeply by regulations his administration adopted in 2004. The Republican...
Feds Drawing Up Plans for Major Disasters in 4 Key States
Oct 16 2007 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is quietly drawing up plans for a handful of disasters: devastating earthquakes beneath San Francisco and St. Louis and catastrophic storms in South Florida and Hawaii, FEMA’s...
Appalachian Underwriters Launches Contractors GL Program in Calif.
Oct 16 2007 // San Diego-based Appalachian Underwriters Inc. has a contractors general liability market available in California through independent agents. This program is backed by an admitted,A.M. Best Co. “A”-rated...
Calif. DOI Partners with CAL FIRE To Prevent Fire Losses
Oct 16 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner joined CAL FIRE Director Ruben Grijalva yesterday in signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help prevent and mitigate fire losses in the Golden State. The state faces...
Calif. Gov. Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
Oct 12 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, that is expected to lower workers’ compensation rates for small businesses and increase competition...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms Working Better than Expected
Oct 12 2007 // Reforms to California’s worker’s compensation system enacted since 2002 “have had a substantial impact on system costs,” according to a new report by the state Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
Calif. Governor Signs Flood Legislation, Rejects Bill on Child Booster Seats
Oct 11 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation designed to strengthen flood protections in California and approved a bill that would ban smoking in vehicles carrying children. Meanwhile, he rejected a measure...
Calif. Earthquake Bill Receives Criticism, Could Raise Rates
Oct 10 2007 // Critics of a bill recently signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger say more than 760,000 California homeowners who buy earthquake insurance through a state-run authority could see their premiums rise . But the measure’s...
Some Calif. Residents Return Home after La Jolla Landslide
Oct 10 2007 // Erinn and Alton McCormick had no idea when they bought their California house in June that it sat directly beneath a weak hillside. Last week, they found it buried up to the roofline by a wall of earth and cracked asphalt...
Calif. Agents Alliance Installs New Officers
Oct 9 2007 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers helected new officers for the 2007-2008 year at its annual business meeting held Sept. 26-30. Elected were: President/CEO Joe Jimenez of CSIS Insurance; Vice President Scott...
