Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Court: Out-of-Stater Can Be Sued for Libel for Web Postings
Aug 6 2007 // An out-of-state resident can be sued for libel in New Jersey for statements posted to a Web site forum because his comments targeted a New Jersey resident, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled. The ruling in Danna...
People and Places
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...
People
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...
People
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...
News Currents
Aug 6 2007 // Calif. State Bar considers mandatory malpractice insurance disclosure The California State Bar is considering whether lawyers in the Golden State should be required to disclose whether they have malpractice...
Calif. launches online system for agency licensing
Aug 6 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has announced that the Department of Insurance has created an online service for organizations applying for an insurance agency license. The online filing service is designed...
News Currents
Aug 6 2007 // Court rules liability waiver invalid when there is gross negligence The California Supreme Court has ruled that a signed liability waiver is useless in protecting a government entity from gross negligence and only good in...
Task force to investigate former SCIF employees
Aug 6 2007 // Three California agencies have formed a task force to investigate the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). The California Highway Patrol, California...
Commercial Lines Leaders
Aug 6 2007 // About the Commercial Lines Leaders: The Commercial Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only...
Calif. Department of Insurance Names Acting Deputy Commissioner
Aug 3 2007 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Tony Cignarale will serve as the new acting deputy commissioner of consumer services and market conduct. Cignarale replaces Woody Girion, who was recently named deputy...
Calif. Urges Consumers to Check for Tire Wear, Damage
Aug 3 2007 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. is advising consumers to inspect certain car tires manufactured from 2002 to 2006 for possible dangerous damage. The tires were made by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. Ltd. in...
Geico Cutting Auto Rates for some California Customers
Aug 2 2007 // Geico General Insurance Co. will cut auto insurance rates for some of its California policyholders by an average of 10.8 percent to comply with state rules requiring rates to be primarily determined by driving records,...
Andersen Named Assistant Communications Manager for Calif. SCIF
Jul 31 2007 // Patrick Andersen has been promoted to assistant communications manager for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s corporate Communications Department. Prior to his State Fund career, Andersen served as...
Calif. Prosecutors to Fight ID Theft, Privacy Violations
Jul 30 2007 // In an effort to bolster personal privacy and intellectual property rights, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that District Attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego will begin receiving funds...
Task Force to Probe Allegations Involving Former SCIF Employees
Jul 30 2007 // The California Highway Patrol, California Department of Insurance, and San Francisco District Attorney’s Office jointly announced the formation of a task force to investigate allegations of potential misconduct by...
Calif. Launches Online Service To Apply for Agency License
Jul 25 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the Department of Insurance has created an online service for organizations applying for an insurance agency license. The online filing service will streamline the...
Golden Eagle Insurance Honors Five Calif. Appointees with Chairman’s Award
Jul 24 2007 // San Diego-based Golden Eagle Insurance, a regional company of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, has honored five of its appointed agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award, which is presented...
Calif. State Bar Considers Malpractice Insurance Disclosure
Jul 23 2007 // The California State Bar is considering whether lawyers in the state should be required to disclose whether they have malpractice insurance. State Bar President John Van de Kamp has appointed a task force to study whether...
Report: N.C. among states with worst traffic, S.C. among best roads
Jul 23 2007 // Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual...
Calif. workers’ comp earthquake losses could exceed $150 million annually
Jul 23 2007 // California workers’ compensation insurers will need $180 million annually to pay for workers’ compensation losses induced by earthquakes, according to a recently released study by the Workers’...
