Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Claims myth fuels fear of building skateboarding parks
Aug 21 2006 // Cities across North America often shy away from building skate parks, citing fear of liability as the main reason for pause. However, the Skate Park Association of the United States of America (SPAUSA) shows statistically...
State Farm Files for Rate Reduction
Aug 18 2006 // State Farm Insurance, California’s largest auto insurer, has applied for an 8 percent average reduction for its policyholders while simultaneously implementing new auto rate regulations, according to the Department...
California Workers’ Comp Rate Filing Submitted
Aug 18 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has submitted its Jan. 1, 2007 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending changes to the California...
Calif. Commissioner Calls Court Ruling on Auto Regs a Victory
Aug 17 2006 // On Wednesday afternoon, the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, Calif., refused to overturn a Superior Court ruling that required insurers to comply with the new auto rating regulations. “Once again the...
Calif. Governor, Commissioner Propose Legislation To Oversee State Fund
Aug 16 2006 // California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi have jointly submitted legislation to establish oversight responsibility and regulatory authority for the State Compensation...
Hawaii Seeks Order to Liquidate Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty
Aug 16 2006 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt has filed an application for an Order of Liquidation of The Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co. Ltd. The order seeks to authorize Commissioner Schmidt as liquidator to take...
Report Warns of More Frequent Coastal Flooding and Rising Sea Levels
Aug 15 2006 // The California Climate Action Team has released a summary report of 17 scientific studies examining the potential impacts of climate change on California. Heat-trapping gases threaten to cause more frequent coastal floods,...
Calif. Blue Cross Spent 78.9 Percent of Premium on Patients In 2004-05
Aug 15 2006 // For the fifth year running, Blue Cross of California has spent less than 80 percent of premium dollars on patient care, according to a report released by the California Medical Association. Blue Cross, the state’s...
Agents Association Accuses Garamendi of Using Office to Win Votes
Aug 14 2006 // The Western Insurance Agents Association, Rancho Cordova, Calif., has issued a statement responding to California Insurance Commissioner Garamendi’s auto rate regulations. It reads: Americans would be hard pressed to...
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...
