Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers at Catholic Healthcare West Reach Tentative Deal
Aug 14 2006 // Negotiators for registered nurses and other health care workers in California reached a tentative contract deal with Catholic Healthcare West hospitals over insurance for retirees, officials said Friday. Employees at 24...
California Imposes New Ethics Regulations on Broker-Agents
Aug 11 2006 // The California Department of Insurance has issued a notice informing insurance producers of new ethics regulation requiring all fire and casualty broker-agents and life agents to complete four- hour “ethics...
Calif. Approves USAA’s 8 Percent Auto Rate Reduction, Insurers Not Surprised
Aug 10 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that he intends to approve an average 8 percent decrease in premium rates for policyholders of United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a move that the...
California State Fund Receives $566,000 in Restitution for Fraud
Aug 10 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has received $566,480 in restitution from a Marin County roofing company owner convicted of workers’ compensation fraud. Kenneth Scott Cooper, 51, of San Rafael,...
Judge Denies California Insurers’ Lawsuit to Stop Auto Rate Regs
Aug 10 2006 // A Sacramento Superior Court judge has decided to reject the insurance industry’s request for an injunction against auto insurance rate regulation reforms in California, but the legal challenges will not end...
California Study Examines Medical Access in the Wake of Reforms
Aug 9 2006 // A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study has found that injured worker access to medical-legal and medical care providers changed very little following the enactment of reforms designed to...
California Couple Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud
Aug 8 2006 // Robert and Rosemary Bunch, both 56, have been sentenced in California on workers’ compensation insurance fraud convictions. The couple from Roasamond pled guilty prior to a jury trial. The Bunches were sentenced on...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for thefts California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...
Excess flood insurance — when the federal plan isn’t sufficient
Aug 7 2006 // The lessons learned from Katrina and Rita and predictions of a future with bigger and stronger storms highlight more than ever the importance of flood insurance, even in locations where it was previously thought...
California insurers sue department to stop auto insurance regulations
Aug 7 2006 // Three insurance trade groups filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance auto rating regulations they said will harm millions of policyholders. On...
Fighting future losses in the midst of fire season
Aug 7 2006 // With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned,...
A lot can happen in the auto dealers’ insurance market
Aug 7 2006 // Even with a wave of consolidation through the industry, the number of new and used auto dealerships in the U.S. is close to 100,000, meaning most independent agents have multiple dealers in their own backyards. “We...
Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
Fighting future losses in the midst of fire season
Aug 7 2006 // With 68,775 blazes already this year, the 2006 wildfire season is well on its way to becoming the worst in 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Its data shows 5.03 million acres have burned,...
Business Moves
Aug 7 2006 // Cooper Gay & Cashman, Cooper Gay Intermediaries Independent reinsurance brokers, Cooper Gay (Holdings) Ltd., headquartered in London, renamed its U.S. domestic treaty operation Cooper Gay Intermediaries LLC. Based in...
Fraud Roundup
Aug 7 2006 // Utah agent charged with pocketing premiums Ryan Webb, a Salt Lake County, Utah, insurance agent, was charged with insurance fraud, a second degree felony, unlawful dealing by a fiduciary, a second degree felony, theft by...
California insurers sue department to stop auto insurance regulations
Aug 7 2006 // News Currents Three insurance trade groups filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop enforcement of California Department of Insurance auto rating regulations they said will harm millions of...
A lot can happen in the auto dealers’ insurance market
Aug 7 2006 // Even with a wave of consolidation through the industry, the number of new and used auto dealerships in the U.S. is close to 100,000, meaning most independent agents have multiple dealers in their own backyards. “We...
Growth in retail shopping centers a boon for insurance brokers
Aug 7 2006 // When the going gets tough, the tough go … shopping! Judging by the 18 percent increase in the development of retail shopping centers in the United States in 2005 over 2004, that tongue-in-cheek adage has more than a...
