Latest California Headlines
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JD Power’s Auto Insurance Study Goes National, Rates Customer Satisfaction
Oct 16 2000 // After testing the waters last year with its first annual California Auto Insurance Satisfaction Study, J.D. Power & Associates decided to take to the road and make this year’s survey national in...
WCIRB Estimates 1999 Calif. Combined Ratio of 153 Percent; Says Line Deteriorating Further in 2000
Oct 13 2000 // Workers’ comp in California is continuing its slide downhill, according to a recently released report from the WCIRB. The mid-year report found that loss development on the 1998 and 1999 accident years during the...
Access General To Hold DirecNET Training Seminars in Southern California
Oct 12 2000 // Access General recently announced it will be holding training sessions in Southern California for its DirecNET program. The seminars will take place during the week of Nov. 6. Invitations will be sent to its “Premier...
Southern Calif. Agent Scam Ring Investigated
Oct 9 2000 // A network of insurance agents is under investigation for allegedly taking more than $1 million from 200 Southern California senior citizens, according to a Los Angeles Times report. The alleged scam involved the sale of...
Anchor General Chooses to Outsource IDP for Bureau Reporting
Oct 5 2000 // San Diego-based Anchor General Insurance Agency Inc. signed a two-year contract with Insurance Data Processing Inc. (IDP) of Wyncote, Pa., to perform ISO bureau reporting services and to assist with California-specific SAP...
Slave Insurance Probes Launched in California
Oct 5 2000 // A new California law passed this session and signed last weekend, has given California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low the authority to ask all insurers in the state to produce details of slave policies issued in the...
Governor Signs Quake Legislation, Associations Voice Disappointment
Oct 3 2000 // As crunch time approached for acting on legislation, SB 1899, considered one of several high-profile insurance measures of this year’s legislative session, received California Gov. Gray Davis’ signature. Both...
Brown & Brown Acquires Calabasas Agency
Oct 3 2000 // J. Hyatt Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Brown & Brown,Inc. and Vincent Lee Lopez, Principal of DSD Insurance Agency, of Calabasas, California, today announced the acquisition of DSD Insurance Agency by Brown...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Medical Costs Soar to a Record High
Oct 2 2000 // California workers’ compensation medical costs soared to a record $3.6 billion last year, an increase of more than $1.5 billion since 1994, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute’s...
Mold Claims Create a New Frontier in Constuction Defect Litigation
Oct 2 2000 // Mold. An extremely common organism, it’s found in veritably every home and building. Now it’s at the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic...
Calif. Sits on Epicenter of National Quake Survey
Oct 2 2000 // According to the first national survey of earthquake risks, 75 percent of all losses are expected to occur in California. But quakes are not a problem for just the Golden State, as the study shows that other areas of the...
New Calif. Law Seeks Resolution for Armenian Genocide Victims, Heirs
Sep 27 2000 // California Gov. Gray Davis recently signed legislation that will permit Armernian genocide victims and their heirs to file suits in California against insurers for unpaid policies purchased by people or companies in Europe...
Calif. Governor OKs Child Safety Seat Bill
Sep 27 2000 // Calif. Governor Gray Davis signed a bill into law on Sept. 25 that will raise the bar for child safety in California. SB 567 (Speier, D-Daly City) will require children up to six years old or 60 pounds to ride in car...
CDI Serves Cease-and-Desist to Bakersfield Insurance Agency
Sep 25 2000 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation Bureau served search warrants and a cease and desist order (C&D) on a Bakersfield Insurance Agency last Friday. The search warrants were...
California Sits on Epicenter of National Quake Damage Survey
Sep 21 2000 // According to the first national survey of earthquake risks, 75 percent of all losses are expected to occur in California–but quakes are not just a problem for the Golden State, as the study shows that other areas of...
NAII Asks Calif. Gov. Davis to Veto Market Exams Bill
Sep 20 2000 // On Sept. 15, the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) sent a letter to California Governor Gray Davis asking him to veto SB 1805, a bill that would mandate all adopted Department of Insurance market conduct...
California Teen Auto Deaths Decrease Following GDL Passage
Sep 20 2000 // According to a recent California auto club report, teen passenger deaths and injuries when 16-year-olds are behind the wheel dropped 21 percent statewide from 1998 to 1999. These results come two years after passage of...
Low to be Sworn into Office as Calif. Commissioner Today
Sep 18 2000 // Justice Harry Low will be inaugurated as California’s 37th Insurance Commissioner this morning at 9:30 at a ceremony in San Francisco. Associate Justice Stanley Mosk will administer the oath of office. In a...
Is It a Program or a Package’ Here’s How to Tell the Difference
Sep 18 2000 // If both programs and packages combine necessary, traditional lines of coverages into a “package,” how can you really tell one from the other? “You could write a package program for a...
Quackenbush Scandal Played Starring Role in 1999-2000 Legislative Session
Sep 18 2000 // As the clock struck midnight on Aug. 30, lawmakers were spent but still deciding the fates of a handful of bills that would affect the insurance industry. So how did the 1999-2000 legislative session compare to other...
