Latest California Headlines
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California Catastrophe Coalition Formed
Dec 13 2005 // James Lee Witt, former FEMA Director and co-chair of ProtectingAmerica.org, and Admiral James M. Loy, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, have announced the formation of...
Six Arrested in Suspected Calif. Workers’ Comp Fraud Ring
Dec 13 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of six suspects following a two-year, multi-agency undercover investigation into an alleged insurance fraud “mill” that reportedly...
Lemac Offers New Market for Residential Contractors in Calif.
Dec 12 2005 // Los Angeles-based Lemac & Associates has added a new market for residential contractors in California. This is a non-admitted market for contractors including wrap-ups for single family and multi-family projects,...
Calif. Commissioner Delivers Holiday Gift for State’s Motorists
Dec 8 2005 // Delivering an early holiday gift to California drivers, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on Thursday announced significant new changes to the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance program (CLCA), making it easier...
Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California Offers New D&O Product
Dec 6 2005 // Effective Jan. 1, 2006, the Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) will offer a new D&O Product for 501(c)(3) nonprofit...
Disability Insurers Challenge “Underground Regulations” in Court
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance companies filed a lawsuit against California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, challenging what they called “underground regulations” that would boost the cost of disability...
Case Law Watch
Dec 5 2005 // Montana House Bill 631 (Signed into law on April 8, 2005) Regulation: This law relates to the revision of surplus lines insurance law and provides that a policy may not be placed with an unauthorized insurer unless the...
Major Insurers, Non-Profits Launch Community-based Healthcare Initiative Impact
Dec 5 2005 // Impact Community Capital LLC, a consortium of major insurance companies, and NCB Development Corp. (NCBDC) have teamed up to offer as much as $50 million in low-interest loans to community health clinics that serve...
People & Places
Dec 5 2005 // Miranda Wescott The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, Austin, Texas, has announced that two outstanding customer service representatives have received its National CSR of the Year Award for 2005:...
Calif. Doc Arrested in Scam
Dec 5 2005 // Ventura County, Calif., District Attorney Gregory Totten has announced that investigators from the District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation has arrested Dr. Kent Pollock, 61, of Newbury Park, Calif., on a...
Calif. Couple, Brothers Nabbed for Felony Auto Fraud Scam
Dec 5 2005 // A husband, his wife and another man have been arrested on felony auto insurance fraud charges following a California Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigation into the alleged theft of the couple’s...
Former Calif. Broker Nabbed on Grand Theft Charges
Dec 5 2005 // A former Beverly Hills, Calif., insurance broker has been arrested and charged with one count of grand theft after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation Division. CDI Investigators...
Calif. Commissioner Announces Team in Bid for Lieutenant Governor
Dec 5 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner and Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has announced his 2006 campaign team, which includes participants in the campaign to defeat Gov. Arnold...
Lawsuit Claims Disability Insurer Sought to Avoid Paying Claims
Dec 5 2005 // UnumProvident Corp., the nation’s largest disability insurer, has systematically sought ways to avoid paying claims to millions of California customers, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit filed in Superior Court by...
Executive Life Judge Confirms Some $900M in Total Verdicts, Settlements
Dec 5 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has praised a Los Angeles Federal judge’s ruling that the Artemis Co., reportedly a main conspirator in the fraudulent purchase of the Executive Life Insurance Co....
Regulation of Surplus Lines
Dec 4 2005 // Montana House Bill 631 (Signed into law on April 8, 2005) Regulation: This law relates to the revision of surplus lines insurance law and provides that a policy may not be placed with an unauthorized insurer unless the...
Business Moves
Dec 4 2005 // Montana Auditor Adds Two Companies in Captive Insurance Market Montana State Auditor John Morrison has announced the formation of two new Montana companies approved to provide insurance in the captive insurance market. The...
Executive Life Judge Confirms Some $900M in Total Verdicts, Settlements
Dec 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has praised a Los Angeles Federal judge’s ruling that the Artemis Co., reportedly a main conspirator in the fraudulent purchase of the Executive Life Insurance Co....
San Diego Contractor Ordered to Pay $37,669 in Restitution to State Fund
Dec 4 2005 // A San Diego County Superior Court has sentenced Valley Center, Calif., businessman John Presley to three years formal probation and ordered him to pay $37,669 in restitution to California’s State Compensation...
