Latest California Headlines
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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...
Five Calif. Residents Arrested for Suspected Auto Insurance Fraud
May 12 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of three suspects who were allegedly said to have participated in the staging of auto collisions on the 605 Freeway. Three of the suspects —...
ICW Group Hires Sinatra to Expand Company in Pleasanton, Calif.
May 10 2006 // ICW Group, San Diego, has hired Michael Sinatra to become the branch manager for its Pleasanton, Calif., workers’ compensation underwriting office. The expansion in Pleasanton will complement ICW Groups’ other...
California Commissioner Seeks Investigation into “Attempted Blackmail” by Insurance Industry
May 10 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Attorney General of California to investigate the insurance industry’s latest...
Texas Surplus Lines Group Heads to Calif. for Mid-Year Meeting in July
May 10 2006 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA) will be hosting its 2006 Mid-Year Meeting July 23-26 at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, Calif. TSLA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Speakers scheduled for this...
Insurers Oppose California Auto Repair Dispute Legislation
May 9 2006 // California is scheduled to consider a bill today, May 9, that is designed to resolve auto repair disputes between insurers and policyholders, according to Jeff Fuller, executive vice president and general counsel of the...
California Commissioner Claims Insurance Industry Attempted Blackmail to Derail Auto Rate Regulations
May 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is claiming that he has unveiled an attack campaign by the insurance industry against his efforts to reward good drivers and create a fairer system for the pricing of auto...
Lockton Insurance Brokers’ CEO Noonan Honored for Community Service
May 9 2006 // Timothy J. Noonan, president and CEO of Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. based in Los Angeles, was recently honored by Phoenix House during its third annual “Triumph for Teens” Awards Gala at the Four Seasons...
CaseRev, Inc. Moves Corporate Office to Poway, California
May 8 2006 // San Diego, CA – Today, CaseRev, Inc. announced that it will be expanding its corporate offices to Poway, CA to better serve its growing national clientele. Steve Pratt, CEO, explained “We have moved our primary...
Fraud Roundup
May 8 2006 // Four Riverside, Calif., residents arrested for alleged fradulent auto theft claim Three Riverside, Calif., residents have been arrested on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 –TITLE:...
People and Places
May 8 2006 // Andrew J. Valdivia has been elected president of White & Co. Insurance Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif., and will be responsible for property and casualty sales, account development and account management. Valdivia was...
Governor claims Calif. workers’ comp changes ‘huge success’
May 8 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the sweeping workers’ compensation changes he pushed through the Legislature two years ago a “huge success,” but critics called them a disaster for injured...
Fraud Roundup
May 8 2006 // Four Riverside, Calif., residents arrested for alleged fradulent auto theft claim Three Riverside, Calif., residents have been arrested on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was...
