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Calif. Legislative Session Adjourns With New Privacy Law, Work Comp Reform
Sep 29 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty insurance industry during the...
Igneous Deploys Internet Strategy to Enable Greater Efficiencies Between NIA Brokers, Members
Sep 26 2003 // The Igneous Group, Inc. (Igneous) and Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA) Group of Companies announced that they have successfully deployed the new NIA Web sites (www.niac.org and www.ani-rrg.org) that provide a complete...
Keenan & Assoc. Creates Workers’ Comp Pool for Calif. Schools
Sep 26 2003 // In the wake of crisis and turmoil in the California workers’ compensation arena, Keenan & Associates has created and implemented a new generation workers’ compensation program – a hybrid...
Insurance Company Donations to Calif. Gov. Illegal, Consumer Group Says
Sep 25 2003 // A consumer group is urging the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California to investigate a series of contributions totaling $175,000 from an insurance company, Mercury General Corporation, to Governor...
Western Region PLUS Days 2003 Tackles Pressing Issues
Sep 22 2003 // Issues ranging from A&E/construction to issues in the medical malpractice arena highlighted two days of the Western Region PLUS Days 2003 Conference in San Francisco Sept. 4-5. While the news was encouraging on some...
CIGA Looks to Bond Sound Future
Sep 22 2003 // Thanks to the legislature, the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) will stave off financial ruin by floating bonds next year. Part of the reform package passed by both houses in the Capitol includes...
Non-Profits, Public Entities Battle Market Conditions
Sep 22 2003 // As some in the industry see profits and smoother sailing ahead, other markets are having a tougher time. In a look at the non-profits and public entities markets, Insurance Journal spoke with several experts in those...
Deployment of Internet Strategy from Igneous Enables Greater Efficiencies Between NIA Brokers and Members
Sep 22 2003 // The Igneous Group, Inc. (Igneous) and Nonprofits Insurance Alliance (NIA) Group of Companies announced today that they have successfully deployed the new NIA Web sites (www.niac.org and www.ani-rrg.org) that provide a...
$585 Million Settlement at Hand in Credit Lyonnais/ELIC Fraud Case
Sep 22 2003 // Nothing apparently concentrates the corporate mind so effectively as being named in a criminal complaint. A week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued a sealed indictment which reportedly accused it, and...
Non-Profits, Public Entities Battle Market Conditions
Sep 22 2003 // As some in the industry see profits and smoother sailing ahead, other markets are having a tougher time. In a look at the non-profits and public entities markets, Insurance Journal spoke with several experts in those...
$585 Million Settlement at Hand in Credit Lyonnais/ELIC Fraud Case
Sep 22 2003 // Nothing apparently concentrates the corporate mind so effectively as being named in a criminal complaint. A week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued a sealed indictment which reportedly accused it, and...
CASA Says New Workers’ Comp Fee Schedule Will Hinder Access to Needed Surgery for Calif. Injured Workers
Sep 17 2003 // The California Ambulatory Surgery Association (CASA) stated on Tuesday that access to surgery for injured workers in California will be dramatically reduced under the outpatient fee schedule approved by the California...
NAII Says Calif. WC Reform Proposals ‘A Good First Step’
Sep 15 2003 // Two bills moving through the California Legislature during the final days of the 2003 session would provide some of the necessary cost savings needed to stabilize the state’s beleaguered workers’ compensation...
Calif. Legislators Grind Out Workers’ Comp Deal
Sep 15 2003 // State legislators burned the midnight oil into the early hours of this past Saturday morning to conclude a hectic year of lawmaking with final-hour decisions to reform the state’s troubled workers’ compensation...
Alliance Says Calif. WC Legislation Full of Loopholes; Premium Reductions Unrealistic
Sep 12 2003 // A 150-page bill that emerged from committee this week following late night bargaining is full of loopholes and won’t produce immediate savings on workers’ compensation policies as some are claiming....
State Fund Hails Workers’ Comp Reform Package
Sep 12 2003 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund hailed cost saving measures contained in the Legislature’s workers’ compensation reform package as a significant step toward decreasing system costs. This...
Landmark WC Legislation to Provide Relief for Calif. Employers
Sep 11 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said that legislation crafted by the Workers’ Compensation Conference Committee will bring stability to the market and is an “outstanding” first step toward...
Authorities Seek Additional Victims in Calif. Broker-Agent’s Scam
Sep 10 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) and the Glendale Police Department are asking for more victims to come forward after the arrest and conviction of Nahed Sabri El-Hawary on eight counts of...
Ueberroth to Exit Calif. Recall Campaign
Sep 9 2003 // With more than 100 candidates to be the next governor of California if the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis (D) is successful, one of the more prominent candidates is apparently throwing in the towel. Former baseball...
Legislature Committee Looks for Answers in Calif. Workers’ Comp Crisis
Sep 8 2003 // Trying to bring rate relief to California’s employers, the Legislature’s special Workers’ Compensation Conference Committee recently focused its reform aims on a magic number of $3.5 billion in...
