Latest California Headlines

Court Rules Hurt Prison Guard Not Entitled to Workers’ Comp

Sep 28 2006 // A California correctional officer who was hurt while helping at an accident while on his way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has ruled. It...

Investigators Trace Specific Batch of Tainted Spinach

Sep 27 2006 // Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of a...

York Insurance Services Invests in Southern California Risk Management

Sep 27 2006 // York Insurance Services Group Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.-based insurance services provider, has acquired Eventide Risk Management LLC, a provider of workers’ compensation and medical cost containment services in...

Agriculture industry starved for ways to reduce terrorism targets

Sep 25 2006 // The war against terrorism may be focused mostly in the Middle East, but people also should pay attention closer to home — especially to the U.S. agriculture industry, according to Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of...

What would Popeye do?

Sep 25 2006 // Send Olive Oyl to the grocery for a can of kale? The nationwide recall of bags of fresh spinach due to the contamination of some brands by the E. coli virus might not have affected Popeye at all — he ate his...

Agriculture industry starved for ways to reduce terrorism risk

Sep 25 2006 // The war against terrorism may be focused mostly in the Middle East, but people should also pay attention closer to home—especially to the U.S. agriculture industry, according to Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of...

Farmers vows to appeal California court ruling

Sep 25 2006 // Farmers Insurance Exchange will appeal a decision by a San Diego Superior Court regarding premium payment plans offered to its customers in California and Nevada. In September, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Jay M....

Agriculture industry starved for ways to reduce terrorism risk

Sep 25 2006 // The war against terrorism may be focused mostly in the Middle East, but people should also pay attention closer to home–especially to the U.S. agriculture industry, according to Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of...

California associations, businesses oppose punitive damages bill

Sep 25 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA), Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC), California Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) have joined forces to oppose Senate...

California State Compensation Insurance Fund appoints Tudor president

Sep 25 2006 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors appointed James C. Tudor as the organization’s president. Tudor’s appointment caps an extensive four month national search for a...

People and Places

Sep 25 2006 // Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider assuming the office of...

Farmers vows to appeal California court ruling

Sep 25 2006 // Farmers Insurance Exchange will appeal a decision by a San Diego Superior Court regarding premium payment plans offered to its customers in California and Nevada. In September, San Diego County Superior Court Judge Jay M....

Sep 25 2006 // People Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider assuming the office of...

Agriculture industry starved for ways to reduce terrorism targets

Sep 25 2006 // The war against terrorism may be focused mostly in the Middle East, but people also should pay attention closer to home — especially to the U.S. agriculture industry, according to Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of...

Business Moves

Sep 25 2006 // Alliant, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC sold its U.S.-based property and casualty insurance and employee benefits businesses to California-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. JLT said the...

Calif. State Fund appoints Tudor president

Sep 25 2006 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors appointed James C. Tudor as the organization’s president. Tudor’s appointment caps an extensive four month national search for a...

News Currents

Sep 25 2006 // California associations, businesses oppose punitive damages bill The American Insurance Association (AIA), Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC), California Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and Association of California...

California company recalls bagged spinach with concerns over U.S. E. coli outbreak

Sep 25 2006 // A California natural foods company has been linked to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Food and Drug Administration officials said that they received reports of...

Western Security Offers Market, 17.5 Percent Commission

Sep 25 2006 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. has added a new admitted market for California agents and brokers, and has raised its commission 17.5 percent on all accounts bound with Great Divide...

Five Vice Presidents Take New Positions at Blue Shield of California

Sep 20 2006 // Blue Shield of California has appointed three new vice presidents and assigned new responsibilities to two current executives in areas including finance, network management, customer service and information...