Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Calif. Legislation Becomes Law on Jan. 1
Dec 21 2004 // A number of new insurance-related bills will go into law in California on Jan. 1, 2005. They include: Auto Insurance AB 2677 (Ridley-Thomas – Auto Insurance: Cost Estimates) requires insurers to provide personal auto...
Calif. Man Convicted of Arson Charges
Dec 20 2004 // A graduate student at the California Institute of Technology has been convicted of a series of arson charges related to firebomb attacks on sport utility vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley last year. William Jensen...
Dallas Industry Day Focuses on Profitability, Tort Reform, Ratings
Dec 20 2004 // Texans like to say everything is bigger in Texas, but economist Robert P. Hartwig came to Dallas to explain that big numbers alone aren’t worthy of celebration. The Texas insurance industry, for example, enjoys big...
People & Places
Dec 20 2004 // Ken Nigohosian The American Agents Alliance Board of Governors announced the selection of Ken Nigohosian as the association’s new executive director. He has worked for Safeco Insurance for 25 years. He began his...
TEVIS INSURANCE FILES WITH CDI FOR LICENSE TO SELL WORKERS’ COMP IN CALIFORNIA:
Dec 20 2004 // San Francisco-based Tevis Insurance Company announced that it has filed an application with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to become a new workers’ compensation insurance carrier. The application will...
Oxendine, Anthem Agree on Benefits
Dec 20 2004 // John Oxendine, Georgia Insurance Commissioner, and Anthem Inc. have reached an agreement under which Anthem will pledge $126 million to improve rural health care for the poor in Georgia–in return, Oxendine has agreed...
Wow! We Made It!
Dec 20 2004 // This is the last issue for the year 2004. And while it may seem like any other Insurance Journal West, it’s actually pretty special and notable. The end of 2004 marks a remarkable achievement here at Insurance...
Looking Back on ’04: The Most Talked-About Stories in the Western Region
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...
Authorities Nab Correctional Officer in Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Dec 16 2004 // A former Folsom Prison Correctional Officer was arrested Dec. 15 after an investigation into alleged workers’ compensation fraud in which investigators video-taped her using a jet ski, a water slide, and performing...
ELAN Files Calif. Public Records Act Request with Commissioner to Release $4B in Policyholder Losses
Dec 16 2004 // The Executive Life Action Network (ELAN), an activist group of former Executive Life Insurance Co. policyholders, has filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request with Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi urging...
Garamendi Announces Results of Low Cost Auto Outreach Campaign
Dec 16 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the initial results of the aggressive outreach campaign launched in August 2004 to enroll eligible Los Angeles drivers in the California Low Cost Auto Insurance Program...
American Agents Alliance Characterizes CDI’s Proposed Regulations “Unacceptable”
Dec 10 2004 // The American Agents Alliance is continuing to call for the defeat of California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s proposed regulations relating to broker disclosures, terming the proposal...
State Fund Collects $550,000 in Restitution from Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Dec 10 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund collected $550,000 as the first installment of a total $677,693.00 owed to the Fund from a Los Angeles business owner who pleaded no contest to felony workers’ compensation insurance...
PCI Seeks Changes to Proposed Rule on Producer Compensation in Oregon
Dec 9 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has voiced its general support of the Oregon Insurance Division’s effort to establish an objective way to determine when an insurance broker must make...
N.Y. Moves Against Balboa Insurance Co.’s Handling of Homes Served by Volunteer Firefighters
Dec 9 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the Balboa Insurance Company has agreed to initiate immediately training for all of their company’s underwriters in the wake of an on-going New...
Plaintiffs’ Legal Team Not Surprised with Not Guilty Plea in Calif. Vehicular Manslaughter Case
Dec 9 2004 // Geoffrey Wells, who represents more than 11 of the plaintiffs in their wrongful death or personal injury civil suits against the City of Santa Monica, California arising out of the July 16, 2003 Santa Monica Farmers’...
Calif. Contractor Associations, Unions Form Trust to Administer Workers’ Comp Carve-Out Program
Dec 7 2004 // Northern California contractors and unions representing carpenters, laborers and operating engineers have formed a labor-management trust to administer a collectively bargained workers’ compensation carve-out...
ACIC Releases Statement on Workers’ Comp Reforms
Dec 7 2004 // The following is a statement presented to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee Dec. 7 on workers’ compensation reforms. The statement by Jeff Fuller, ACIC’s executive vice president and general...
Calif. Releases 2005 User Funding/Fraud/Uninsured Employer & Subsequent Injury Fund Rates
Dec 6 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2005 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
Self Insured Solutions Forms California’s First Agricultural Workers’ Comp Self-insured Group
Dec 6 2004 // Following up on the establishment of the California Contractors Network — a self-insured group (SIG) for high-risk employers — Self Insured Solutions has created California’s first Agricultural...
