Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Reforms Continuing to Bring Costs Down
Dec 20 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2006. The data seems to verify that workers’...
Abalos Promoted to Vice President of Colemont-Southern California
Dec 18 2006 // Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Dede Abalos to vice president of Colemont – Southern California. Abalos joined Colemont April 1999. She has been in the excess and surplus lines industry since 1996. She writes...
Calif. State Fund Receives More Than $3 Million in Fraud Restitution
Dec 15 2006 // San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, $81,649 in investigation...
Calif. Senator Wants Businesses, Workers to Share in Covering Uninsured
Dec 15 2006 // Staking out the middle ground in the burgeoning health care debate, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata outlined a plan to cover 4.2 million uninsured Californians, mostly the working poor. Perata’s plan would...
California Agents May Get More Calls From Uninsured Motorists
Dec 14 2006 // Insurance agents who sell personal lines in California might be getting more calls than usual from consumers seeking auto insurance, now that the state is cracking down on uninsured motorists. Following legislation SB1500,...
Calif. Reaches Settlement with Prudential To End Payment of Undisclosed Commissions
Dec 13 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on Tuesday announced that Prudential Insurance Co. of America agreed to settle its dispute with the division over alleged abusive practices. As part of the agreement,...
Builders & Tradesmen’s Offers Commercial Package Policy in California
Dec 13 2006 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services Inc., Rocklin, Calif., has a new commercial package policy available in California underwritten by One Beacon. Eligable classes are garage, manufatures,...
Nielson Named Executive Director of California Agents Alliance
Dec 13 2006 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has appointed David G. Nielson its new executive director. A former Alliance Board of Directors president, Nielson left an indelible legacy with the association. During his...
California Sets New Workers’ Comp Medical Mileage and Ambulance Service Rates
Dec 12 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has announced that the mileage rate that workers’ compensation claims administrators pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or...
Safeco Appointment Creates Controversy
Dec 11 2006 // The Associated Press is reporting that the recent appointment of Juan Vargas to serve as Safeco’s vice president of external relations is creating controversy. “The appointment of the San Diego lawmaker to one...
Motor vehicle theft declines in California, but violent crime increases
Dec 11 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Experts Warn Insurance Regulators About Dangers of New Madrid Fault
Dec 11 2006 // Earthquake, insurance and building code experts from across the country today warned state insurance regulators of the catastrophic consequences when middle America experiences a replay of the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid...
Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules
Dec 11 2006 // The Second Applegate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...
Bolton & Co:Providing resources for customers produces profits
Dec 11 2006 // Developing a Web presence is not the primary focus at Bolton & Co. Insurance Brokers — developing the skills of employees and building relationships with customers is the chief concern. After all, when employees...
CA State Fund files rate decrease
Dec 11 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium in its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...
Employers offering health coverage in California declining
Dec 11 2006 // California has the most number of people without insurance coverage compared to any other state — and the number of employers offering health insurance plans is declining. According to a recent “Snapshot of...
People and Places
Dec 11 2006 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-area marketing and communications firm, is augmenting its branding and public affairs capabilities with the promotion of one executive and addition of another, according to...
News Currents
Dec 10 2006 // Employers offering health coverage in California declining California has the most number of people without insurance coverage compared to any other state – and the number of employers offering health insurance plans...
Business Moves
Dec 10 2006 // ICAT Holdings, Lloyds ICAT Holdings LLC of Boulder, Colo., created a new underwriting syndicate at Lloyd’s of London, designated as ICM Syndicate 4242, to support underwriting of U.S. catastrophe-exposed properties....
News Currents
Dec 10 2006 // Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules The Second Appellate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al....
