Latest California Headlines
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Garamendi Responds to Trade Assoc.’s Lawsuit on Homeowners Advisory Notice
Jun 9 2003 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released the following statement in response to the lawsuit filed June 4 by the Personal Insurance Federation of California; the Association of California Insurance...
State Fund Takes Legal Action Against Garamendi, CDI
Jun 9 2003 // California’s workers’ comp market reached yet another boiling point recently when the State Compensation Insurance Fund filed suit against Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the Department of Insurance...
PIFC Reports on Dangers of Eliminating Territorial Rating
Jun 9 2003 // Four California Insurance Commissioners and the California Supreme Court reportedly agree-the use of territory as a factor in determining automobile insurance rates is fair and equitable under Proposition 103 passed in...
No. Calif. Investigation Leads to Seven Arrests
Jun 9 2003 // An investigation involving Phil-Am Auto Body Shop in Oakland led to seven additional arrests in Alameda County. Domingo Combe, 80; Amadeo Comilang, 49; Nolasco Depadua, 45; Rodolfo Eleno, 60; Luthgarda Galvan, 44; Gracia...
Calif. Couple Surrenders on Fraud Charges
Jun 9 2003 // Ron Stahr, 40, of Hawthorne, Calif. and Michele Morlet, 24, of Whittier, Calif., surrendered themselves to CDI investigators in Los Angeles on arrest warrants which charged them with filing false insurance claims. In the...
Vallejo, Calif. Broker Sold Fraudulent Policies
Jun 9 2003 // A search warrant was served by CDI investigators to former insurance broker Jimmie Earl Jackson, of Vallejo, Calif. Jackson was operating Jaxon Insurance Services in Vallejo. CDI revoked Jackson’s insurance license...
Burns & Wilcox Chairman Reflects on Decades of Business
Jun 9 2003 // Recently, Insurance Journal sat down with Alan Kaufman, chairman, president, and CEO of the H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and its subsidiary, Burns & Wilcox Ltd. As chairman, Kaufman has played an active role through a...
Working with Blowouts, Knock-for-Knocks and Other Oil Patch Oddities
Jun 9 2003 // One of the big issues facing small- to mid-size oil and gas operators and contractors these days is the need to determine how much risk they are willing to carry themselves and how much they want to transfer to an insuring...
Execs Talk Future of Industry at 9th Annual ITC Forum
Jun 9 2003 // “Amateur hour is over.” Those were the words of the Sullivan Group president Gerald J. Sullivan, addressing a roomful of industry executives recently at the 9th Annual Insuring the Children Forum....
Burns & Wilcox Chairman Reflects on Decades of Business
Jun 9 2003 // Recently, Insurance Journal sat down with Alan Kaufman, chairman, president, and CEO of the H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and its subsidiary, Burns & Wilcox Ltd. As chairman, Kaufman has played an active role through a...
Working with Blowouts, Knock-for-Knocks and Other Oil Patch Oddities
Jun 9 2003 // One of the big issues facing small- to mid-size oil and gas operators and contractors these days is the need to determine how much risk they are willing to carry themselves and how much they want to transfer to an insuring...
Alliance Disagrees with Calif. Consumers Groups on ZIP Code Info
Jun 5 2003 // An effort by a coalition of consumer groups to force the Insurance Commissioner to change the way auto insurance rates are set in California is nothing more than a group of sore losers refusing to take “no” for...
Calif. Commissioner Obtains Conservation over Fremont Indemnity
Jun 5 2003 // In a clear indication of the enormous problems plaguing California’s workers’ compensation system, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi obtained a conservation order June 4 over insolvent insurer Fremont...
PIFC, ACIC, AIA File Lawsuit Challenging CDI’s Homeowners’ Advisory Notice
Jun 5 2003 // Three insurance trade associations filed a lawsuit June 4 in Sacramento Superior Court challenging the legality of an “Advisory Notice” issued by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) on April 24, 2003...
Calif. Business Owner Wins Appeal Against Lloyds of London
Jun 4 2003 // The California Court of Appeal recently ruled that Lloyd’s of London could not force a self-employed plumbing contractor to arbitrate his claim for bad faith denial of disability insurance benefits. Trial Lawyers for...
Calif. Commissioner Obtains Conservation over Fremont Indemnity
Jun 4 2003 // In a clear indication of the enormous problems plaguing California’s workers’ compensation system, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi obtained a conservation order June 4 over insolvent insurer Fremont...
State Fund, Auditor Disagree on Level of Reserves
Jun 2 2003 // In a letter from State Compensation Insurance Fund to its brokers, president Diane Oki reiterated the solvency of workers’ comp carrier, writing “To set the record straight, State Fund is solvent.” In...
PIFC Says Auto Rates will Skyrocket for Drivers in 51 Calif. Counties if Territorial Rating is Eliminated
May 30 2003 // Four California Insurance Commissioners and the California Supreme Court reportedly agree – the use of territory as a factor in determining automobile insurance rates is fair and equitable under Proposition 103...
State Fund Comments on Lawsuit vs. Calif. Commissioner
May 30 2003 // The State Compensation Insurance Fund released a statement regarding the lawsuit filed May 28 against California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the California Department of Insurance (CDI). The suit, according...
State Fund Files Suit Against Calif. Commissioner, CDI
May 29 2003 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund filed a lawsuit May 28 against the California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) requesting a court-ordered...
