Latest California Headlines
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California Commission Hosts Forum on Catastrophe Preparedness
Mar 27 2006 // The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation is sponsoring “Forum on Catastrophe Preparedness: Partnering to Protect Workplaces” on Friday, April 7, 2006, at the South San...
Tax Help Available for California Storm and Flood Victims
Mar 27 2006 // President George W. Bush has declared several areas in Northern California a Federal Disaster Area, following the devastating storms, flooding, and mudslides that occurred in several counties last December and in January...
California Proposes Decrease in Workers Comp Pure Premium Rates
Mar 24 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) Governing Committee has approved the filing of a 16.4 percent decrease in advisory pure premium rates to be effective July 1, 2006, on new and...
Abram Interstate Unveils Special Event Program in California, Arizona
Mar 23 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a new program providing coverage for various special events in Arizona and California. The program covers short-term events of one week or less, but...
Former ’49er Wersching Indicted on $8M Insurance Fraud and Tax Evasion
Mar 23 2006 // Ray Wersching, once the kicker with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, and a former Farmers Insurance agent, has been charged with insurance fraud, tax evasion, and the hiring of a convicted felon to...
Garamendi Issues Cease and Desist Order Against TSI Title & Escrow
Mar 22 2006 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi issued a Cease and Desist Order to TSI Title & Escrow, Inc., a Stateline, Nevada corporation that has conducted more than $860,000 in title insurance business in California...
Small Business California Finds Employers Still Concerned about Workers’ Comp
Mar 21 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
Agents, brokers want Calif. court to depublish opinion
Mar 20 2006 // Insurance Agents and Brokers of the West (IBA West) is hoping the California Supreme Court will “depublish” an appellate court opinion suggesting that insurance broker-agents owe a legal duty of care to third...
New Markets
Mar 20 2006 // Yacht and boat coverage in Calif., Ariz.Nuts & Bolts: Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc., Rocklin, Calif., is offering a standalone watercraft program for boats and yachts of all sizes, up to 15 years old....
Continental Risk Opens California Marine Facility
Mar 20 2006 // Continental Risk Insurance Services, a surplus lines broker, has opened a new facility in Lodi, Calif., devoted to the marine industry. Operating under the name of Continental Marine Insurance Services, it will concentrate...
Calif. Insurance Commissioner Candidate Bustamante to Address Latin American Agents
Mar 20 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner Candidate Cruz Bustamante, currently the Lieutenant Governor, will be speaking at the Latin American Agents Association (LAAA) meeting, slated for Thursday, April 6th at 7 p.m. Bustamante...
People and Places
Mar 20 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has appointed Michael LaRocco as president and chief operating officer. In that expanded role, LaRocco will bring together the company’s property and casualty operations, and...
Study says Californians unmotivated to prepare for next disaster
Mar 20 2006 // Californians believe that their state is prone to disasters, but they see little motivation to prepare for nature’s crushing blows, a new poll has found. The poll, sponsored by the Insurance Information Network of...
Fraud Roundup
Mar 20 2006 // Calif. pair arrested for fraud, grand theft and conspiracy charges California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reported that Troy Portillo, a body shop manager, and Gabi Zaarour, a parts department manager, were...
Zurich, 9 States Settle Bid-Rigging Case for $171 Million
Mar 19 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reported that Texas and eight other states have reached a $171 million settlement with Zurich American Insurance Co. relating to bid-rigging and price-fixing in the commercial insurance...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 17 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Sacramento resident Wayne Allen Sorenson, 35, has been arrested on workers’ compensation insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the...
Calif. Truck Driver Pulled Over for Falsifying Insurance Claim
Mar 16 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi reported the arrest of Jesus Lerma, 51, from Riverside, after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division revealed that it was not him,...
Wills Joins Maclean, Oddy as AVP
Mar 15 2006 // Maclean, Oddy & Associates Inc. announced it has appointed Eddie Wills to the position of assistant vice president and manager of the Underwriting Management Company of Maclean, Oddy & Associates. She will be...
Calif. Law Office Manager Sent to Prison in Large-Scale Auto Fraud
Mar 15 2006 // A California man, who with his brother managed a law office reportedly involved in a large-scale auto insurance fraud ring, was sent to state prison and ordered to make restitution of $1.5 million, the Los Angeles County...
Calif. Court Reinstates Class Action Against Lead Paint Makers
Mar 14 2006 // A state appeals court in San Jose, Calif. has reinstated a class-action lawsuit alleging that several paint manufacturers knowingly sold harmful lead-based paint products for decades. The Sixth District Court of Appeal on...
