Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What Happens If P/C Industry Catches the Flu; Program Best Practices; Giant Program Guide Highlight IJ Magazine
May 23 2006 // The potential exposures for the property casualty insurance industry have fallen under the radar in the discussions of the effects of an Avian flu or other pandemic. Most people keeping watch on the possible effects have...
California Correctional Officer Submits Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claims
May 23 2006 // A former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer has been arrested on insurance fraud charges for submitting fraudulent workers’ comp claims, according to Insurance Commissioner...
California Resident Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
May 23 2006 // A Twentynine Palms, Calif., resident has been charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud. Jacob Leatherberry, 32, is charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud related to a 2005 auto accident and was...
New Markets
May 22 2006 // Printers’ Errors & Omissions Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford’s new printers’ errors and omissions coverage form pays the insured’s legal liability for an economic loss resulting from a...
Case Law Watch
May 22 2006 // Additional InsuredsEquilon Enterprises, LLC v. Great American Alliance Insurance Company (Washington Court of Appeals, Apr. 3, 2006) (Unpublished) Ruling: A wholesale distributor of fuel had contracted with a supplier of...
Understanding buyers is key to writing farmowners policies
May 22 2006 // If you’ve been writing agricultural and farm insurance for years and think you know everything there is to know about the business, don’t bet the farm. Farm exposures have changed dramatically in the past 50...
SullivanCurtisMonroe CEO says growth, profit and fun equal success
May 22 2006 // Best Practices is a new Insurance Journal column that profiles how some of the nation’s top performing agencies run their operations. IJ’s Publisher Mark Wells recently interviewed William Curtis, managing...
Blackmail allegations heat up California auto reforms debate
May 22 2006 // John Garamendi has called for an investigation into an apparent campaign attacking him and his proposed auto insurance rate regulations in California. Supposedly waged by insurance industry officials and advocates,...
Feeding the farmowners business
May 22 2006 // If you’ve been writing agricultural and farm insurance for years and think you know everything there is to know about the business, don’t bet the farm. Farm exposures have changed dramatically in the past 50...
Case Law Watch
May 22 2006 // Additional Insureds Equilon Enterprises, LLC v. Great American Alliance Insurance Company (Washington Court of Appeals, Apr. 3, 2006) (Unpublished) Ruling: A wholesale distributor of fuel had contracted with a supplier of...
Fraud Roundup
May 22 2006 // California chiropractor and legal assistant plead no contest to fraud An Encino, Calif., chiropractor Nasrin “Nancy” Hadizadeh Fathi, 43, and legal assistant Behrouz Beck Saffary, 51, have pled no contest and...
SullivanCurtisMonroe CEO says growth, profit and fun equal success
May 22 2006 // Best Practices is a new Insurance Journal column that profiles how some of the nation’s top performing agencies run their operations. IJ’s Publisher Mark Wells recently interviewed William Curtis, managing...
Judge says “take nothing” in Calif. State Fund, Palm Medical case
May 22 2006 // San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell has granted California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict and has vacated the March 2, 2006, judgment for...
Blackmail allegations heat up California auto reforms debate
May 22 2006 // In public issue campaigns, it is normal to alert someone who runs a department that is going to be a target of campaign. That is how business is done,and it happens on a regular basis. John Garamendi has called for an...
Auto Insurance Direct Writer 21st Century Heads East to Fla, Ga. and Pa.
May 18 2006 // 21st Century Insurance Group, which sells auto insurance directly to consumers, is now selling in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania, the latest wave of the California-based company’s national expansion in the...
Washington Insurance Commissioner Seeks Legal Redress for Failed Insurer
May 18 2006 // Editor’s Note, March 2009: In response to a complaint that the Insurance Journal reported only one side of the preceding story, and as a means of resolving Anthony Huff’s claims against the Insurance...
Eight Indicted by San Diego County Grand Jury for Fraud
May 18 2006 // Eight Massachusetts residents have been indicted for insurance premium fraud charges by a San Diego County grand jury. The eight owners and employees of Massachusetts-based National Independent Contractors Association...
Liberty International Underwriters Opens Los Angeles Office
May 16 2006 // Responding to the increasing influx of business from the Southwest and Southern California, in particular, Boston-based Liberty International Underwriters, a division of Liberty Mutual Group, has opened a Los Angeles...
Father and Son Arrested in California for Workers Comp Fraud
May 16 2006 // Glendale, Calif., car wash owners Shagen Galstanyan, 51, and his son, Vahe Tergalstanyan, 23, have been arrested for workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Both suspects were booked into the Riverside County Jail...
Calif. Broker Pleads No Contest to Premium Theft
May 14 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the no contest plea for insurance broker Alicia Lavendier, 44, for one count of grand theft and one count of insurance premium theft. Lavendier pled no contest on...
