Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Garamendi Urges Schwarzenegger to Move Forward with WC Reform
Oct 9 2003 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released a letter addressed to newly-elected Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, reiterating the need for immediate action in reforming the workers’ compensation...
Chubb Enhances Calif. Homeowners Insurance Offering
Oct 8 2003 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has made several enhancements to its Masterpiece homeowners insurance program in California. Chubb has introduced new coverages, more competitive rates, higher deductibles and other...
Schwarzenegger, Voters Terminate Davis; Becomes Next Calif. Governor
Oct 8 2003 // It was a lot more expensive as opposed to a plane or bus ticket, but Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t seem to mind spending nearly $23 million to go to Sacramento. Schwarzenegger reportedly spent that much on his...
Under the Gun, NAIC Recommits to Modernization
Oct 6 2003 // In response to congressional pressure to more effectively regulate insurance at the state level or face federalization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) unanimously passed its revised statement of...
Calif. Law Expanding Auto Insurance Discounts Takes Effect
Oct 6 2003 // California Governor Gray Davis recently signed a bill supported by the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) that allows insurance companies to grant a rating discount on private passenger automobile...
Riordan, Zaremberg to Keynote IICF Bridge Week Luncheons
Oct 6 2003 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) annual Bridge Week will take place again this year from Oct. 11 – Oct. 19. Highlighting the week will be two separate luncheons, one in northern California,...
Calif. Legislative Session Adjourns With New Privacy Law, WC Reform
Oct 6 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 industry during the 2003...
Under the Gun, NAIC Recommits to Modernization
Oct 6 2003 // In response to congressional pressure to more effectively regulate insurance at the state level or face federalization, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) unanimously passed its revised statement of...
Calif. Legislature Settles on Workers’ Comp Reform Package
Oct 3 2003 // With the lawmakers facing the most serious pressure in years to do something about California’s broken workers’ comp system, the state legislature earlier last month passed a six-bill armada designed to reign...
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...
