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Calif. Legislators Craft Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 28 2002 // After vetoing SB 71 last fall, California Gov. Gray Davis made a pledge that he would reach out to legislators and others to comprise a reform bill addressing workers’ compensation. Now, it appears Davis and...
PIFC WANTS HELMET LAW TO REMAIN
Jan 28 2002 // A bill that would permit motorcyclists 18 and older to discard their helmets will do nothing but increase the number of motorcycle-related injury accidents and deaths in California, according to the Personal Insurance...
E&S Lines Basking in the Warm Glow of a
Jan 28 2002 // Early in 2000, insurance prices started doing something they had not done in almost 15 years. They began to increase, and they kept growing at a modest pace into the third quarter of 2001, when the events of September 11...
CWCI Study Examines Medical Cost Containment in Calif.
Jan 24 2002 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has revealed new research to show that medical cost containment (MCC) expenses in California’s workers’ comp represented less than six percent of total...
California Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 23 2002 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a San Bernardino man on seven counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. According...
Auto Dealers Become First to Self-Insure Under Calif. DIR Plan
Jan 21 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that it had recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation liabilities. California Motor Car...
Calif. Gov., Legislative Leaders Crafting Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 18 2002 // California Gov. Gray Davis and legislative leaders are crafting a tentative agreement addressing workers’ compensation reform, with hopes of passing a workers’ compensation benefits bill by Jan. 25. Davis, who...
CIWA Endorses Calderon in Commissioner’s Race
Jan 16 2002 // The California Insurance Wholesalers Association has thrown its support behind Assemblyman Tom Calderon in his race for state insurance commissioner. Calderon, who has received the support of The United Farm Workers,...
CAIFA, PIA Group Form ‘Broader, Wider, Deeper’ Lobbying Coalition
Jan 15 2002 // The California Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (CAIFA) and the Professional Insurance Agents (PIA), two Sacramento-headquartered organizations that have worked together for years on legislative and other...
PIFC Expects an Increase in Death and Injuries If Present Helmet Law Repealed
Jan 15 2002 // A bill that would permit motorcyclists who are 18 and older to discard their helmets will do nothing but increase the number of motorcycle injury accidents and deaths in California, according to the Personal Insurance...
Alliance Urges Calif. and N.Y. to Reconsider Terrorism Exclusions
Jan 14 2002 // Rodger S. Lawson, Ph.D., president of the Alliance of American Insurers, released the following statement questioning the logic of the decision by the California and New York insurance departments to deny the ISO...
Without Terrorism Exclusions, Surplus Lines Insurers Hold Out Lifeline to Calif., N.Y. Businesses
Jan 14 2002 // AccordingSurplus lines insurers may offer hope for businesses to remain insured in those states, like California and New York, that are refusing to allow insurers to exclude terrorism risks in commercial insurance...
Knowles Steps Down as CEA Chief Executive
Jan 14 2002 // Indicating it was time to try a new line of work, David Knowles stepped down last month as chief executive of the California Earthquake Authority (CEA). Knowles, who helped lead the CEA to a cash position of more than $1...
Insurance Commissioner Candidate Umberg Answers Patriotic Call to Duty
Jan 14 2002 // As important as being named the next Insurance Commissioner of California is to Tom Umberg, the obligation he felt to serve his country in the wake of Sept. 11 was greater. Umberg, a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves,...
United Farm Workers Pledge Support for Calderon
Jan 11 2002 // The United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, has endorsed Tom Calderon for California Insurance Commissioner, adding to the broad base of labor and Latino groups that have filed in behind the Montebello democrat. “Farm workers...
NAII Claims CDI Unreasonably Forces Insurers to Provide Terrorism Coverage
Jan 10 2002 // California State insurance regulators announced that insurance companies must offer terrorism coverage even though Congress has failed to provide an essential backstop for insurers in the event of future terrorism...
Farmers Insurance Requests Rate Hike in Calif.
Jan 10 2002 // Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. recently applied for a 6.9 percent premium increase for homeowners insurance in the state of California. According to the Los Angeles Times Mary Flynn, a spokesperson for Farmers, the...
Environmental Program Aims to Cap Cleanup Costs at Calif. Former Military Site
Jan 10 2002 // To help contain the expense of cleanup activities at an unused army barrack, an environmental insurance program is providing a financial cushion and liability protection as part of a fixed cost remediation agreement. ECS,...
21st Century Insurance to Stop Selling Homeowner Policies
Jan 9 2002 // According to the Los Angeles Times, after a three-year experiment, California-based 21st Century Insurance has decided to stop selling homeowner insurance in the state. Instead, 21st Century will refer customers to...
Calif. Won’t Adopt Terror Exclusions
Jan 8 2002 // According to a Jan. 7 Los Angeles Times article, California has refused to allow insurers to adopt terrorism exclusion language, a move which has already been by approximately 20 other states in the wake of Sept. 11. The...
