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Alliance Files Court Briefs On Behalf of Agents, Brokers in E&O Case

Jul 18 2005 // The American Agents Alliance has filed two briefs with the California Supreme Court in an attempt to protect insurance producers from fallout resulting from a recent Appellate Court ruling. On June 30 the state Supreme...

Business Moves

Jul 18 2005 // State Fund Withdraws Plans for Home Office Expansion California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has announced it has decided to not move forward with the plans for the construction of a new office building...

A Rare California Policy Success Trying to Survive

Jul 18 2005 // This month new workers’ compensation insurance rates went into effect in California. And thanks to reforms championed early on by State Sen. Charles Poochigian and Assemblyman Abel Maldonado, and later pushed by Gov....

Jul 18 2005 // Majestic Insurance Company announced the appointment of David Porter to the new position of marketing manager for Southern California. Porter has more than 25 years of experience in the industry. Prior to joining Majestic,...

Calif. Legislature Breaks for Summer, Takes Action on Measures

Jul 18 2005 // Following is ACIC’s weekly update on legislative action taken on insurance-related bills last week and the measures scheduled for consideration in the future. Note: Legislature begins its month-long summer recess...

Borisoff Joins Countrywide Insurance as President of Commercial Lines

Jul 14 2005 // Countrywide Insurance Group has announced that Brett Borisoff has joined the organization as president of Countrywide Insurance Services Inc.’s commercial insurance division. Borisoff will run the commercial division...

American Agents Alliance Opposes SB 20 Despite Amendments

Jul 14 2005 // American Agents Alliance Executive Director Ken Nigohosian says the association will maintain its opposition to Senate Bill 20 (Escutia), despite recent amendments to the bill. SB 20 would mandate the continuance of...

Calif. Supreme Court Rejects Third Lawsuit Against Workers’ Comp Issues

Jul 14 2005 // Yesterday, the California Supreme Court denied the writ of mandate in a case filed by a group sponsored by the California Applicant Attorneys’ Association, the American Insurance Association reported today. The case...

Mother-Daughter Team Arrested for Calif. Workers’ Comp Scam

Jul 13 2005 // Two Kern County, California farm labor contractors surrendered to authorities July 12 after a two-year investigation found that they had allegedly under-reported their business’ payroll by $1 million. The...

WellPoint Agrees to Pay $198 M to Settle Dispute With Physicians

Jul 12 2005 // WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $198 million to settle a dispute with physicians and medical societies which will give doctors more leeway in determining the types of treatment required and whether or not a given...

California’s State Fund Riverside District Office Hosts Employer Seminar on Workers’ Comp Fraud Prevention

Jul 12 2005 // As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, California’s State Fund will host a free fraud prevention seminar for employers at its Riverside District Office. The seminar will take...

ACIC Opposes Low Cost Auto Program

Jul 11 2005 // The Association of California Insurance Companies remains opposed to legislation that would expand California’s pilot, low-cost auto insurance program from two counties to statewide, according to ACIC President Sam...

IRC Study Reports Auto Injury Medical Treatment Varies from State to State

Jul 11 2005 // Auto injury claimants from four states seek different types of medical treatment, even though they report similar injuries. A new study of insurance claims by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) examined auto injury...

State Selects Sacramento Firm to Study Workers’ Comp System

Jul 11 2005 // The state of California has selected Bickmore Risk Services of Sacramento to conduct an analysis of the effect of recent legislative reforms on workers’ compensation insurance rates and the insurance market. BRS...

Security Breach Laws Should Concern Insurers, NAMIC Says

Jul 8 2005 // Differences in the 19 security breach notification laws enacted so far this year should be of concern to insurers conducting business in multiple states, according to an analysis by the National Association of Mutual...

Calif. Panel Approves Measure Requiring Insurers to Explain Why Policies are Declined

Jul 7 2005 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee approved an amended measure that will now require insurers to provide an explanation to consumers when policies are declined, canceled or non-renewed, reported the American...

Alliance Files Court Briefs On Behalf of Agents, Brokers

Jul 5 2005 // The American Agents Alliance has filed two briefs with the California Supreme Court in an attempt to protect insurance producers from fallout resulting from a recent Appellate Court ruling. On June 30 the state Supreme...

Calif. Man Pleads Guilty on Two Counts, Workers’ Comp Fraud

Jul 5 2005 // John Arcurio, 49, of Fillmore, plead guilty June 22, to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and insurance fraud. Arcurio was arrested in Kern County and transferred to the County of Ventura Superior...

Calif. Department of Insurance Chief Lists Expectations for Market Conduct

Jul 4 2005 // Joel Laucher, chief of Market Conduct at the California Department of Insurance, recently spoke to attendees at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Inland Marine Under-writers Associa-tion about Calif-ornia’s requirements...

Disclosure, Marketing Dominate Young Brokers and Agents Conference

Jul 4 2005 // Agents and brokers must unite and work together so that their industry is able to flourish despite recent challenges involving broker disclosure, participants learned at IBA West’s Young Brokers and Agents Conference...