Latest California Headlines

All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Crescent City Harbor Suffers Up To $700K in Tsunami Damages

Nov 17 2006 // The National Weather Service lifted a tsunami advisory hours before powerful waves damaged docks and tore boats from their moorings in Northern California. Forecasters said they were wary of causing chaos along the...

California CPCU Volunteers Help the Hungry

Nov 10 2006 // Fifteen volunteers from the Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley and California El Camino Chartered Property Casualty Underwriting Society (CPCU) Chapters assisted the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006,...

Garamendi, Poizner Take California Elections

Nov 8 2006 // In Tuesday’s election, former California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi won the election for lieutenant governor by a narrow margin of 49.5 percent to Republican Tom McClintock’s 44.9 percent, according...

Calif. AAA’s Pentis Joins Commerce Group to Run Operations Outside Mass.

Nov 7 2006 // The Commerce Group, Inc. in Massachusetts announced that Lawrence R. Pentis of California will join the company’s senior executive team. He will be responsible for insurance operations outside of Massachusetts as the...

Calif. Commissioner: Bustamante and Poizner in the Final Stretch

Nov 7 2006 // Going into today’s election, Democratic candidates in California have the lead in the races for attorney general, state treasurer, controller and secretary of state, according to a Field Poll released Friday. But...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Calif. approves reinsurance regs

Nov 6 2006 // California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved “Reinsurance Accounting, Agreements and Oversight” regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance. The regulations set forth the principal...

Many California Hispanics unaware of uninsured motorists requirements

Nov 6 2006 // On Oct. 1, 2006, the California Department of Motor Vehicles began enforcing Senate Bill 1500 that requires the DMV to suspend a vehicle’s registration if the vehicle does not have a valid insurance policy or bond....

Open claims files handled by California Insurance Guaranty Association drop

Nov 6 2006 // The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high of 85,000 to around 48,000, of which more than 40,000 are the result of workers’...

Calif. auto body regulations would increase rates

Nov 6 2006 // California policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops for insured repair work, according to three...

New Markets

Nov 6 2006 // Privacy and Security Coverage Enhancements Nuts & Bolts: Underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC have a set of security and privacy coverage enhancements that can be endorsed onto any of the...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

News Currents

Nov 5 2006 // Calif. auto body regulations would increase rates California policyholders would see their automobile insurance premiums increase, under proposed Department of Insurance regulations that mandate payments to auto body shops...

Calif. approves reinsurance regs

Nov 5 2006 // California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved “Reinsurance Accounting, Agreements and Oversight” regulations proposed by the Department of Insurance. The regulations set forth the principal...

New Markets

Nov 5 2006 // Non-Profit Organization D&O Liability Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a not-for-profit directors and officers program designed to insure small to medium IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3...

Open claims files handled by California Insurance Guaranty Association drop

Nov 5 2006 // The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high of 85,000 to around 48,000, of which more than 40,000 are the result of workers’...

Calif. Commissioner Reaches Settlement with UnumProvident

Nov 3 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reached a settlement with UnumProvident Corp., Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, and Unum Life Insurance Company of America to ensure that all compensation...