San Francisco could soon start requiring retailers to post notices showing how much radiation is emitted by the cell phones they sell. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to give preliminary approval to the ordinance, which would require stores to …
Architects and designers carefully consider the safety of future tenants when they design a building. But contractors would like to see designers also consider the safety of builders and future building maintenance workers. “Most architecture and engineering firms are very …
The Dentists Insurance Co. has hired Robert Mayo as its vice president of business operations. Mayo brings to TDIC more than 25 years of operational experience directing information technology initiatives that enable organizations to effectively achieve their business objectives. Mayo, …
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking more participants for its e-forms trial, which allows filers to electronically submit forms and documents directly into its Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS). Using a logon and password to access EAMS, e-form …
The current recession has reduced Oregon revenues, and has forced the Legislature to make deep cuts. Coping with these cuts includes closing the Department of Consumer and Business Services and most other state agencies on 10 Fridays that fall throughout …
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission has voted unanimously to appoint Johnny L. Montoya acting superintendent of insurance. Montoya, who will continue to perform the function of interim chief of staff until July 6, takes over the interim superintendent reins …
About 7,900 employees of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund are entitled to back pay after a state appeals court ruled in their favor over furloughs. The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled that the same state law …
On May 28, 2010, Bernard “Bud” Brown passed away surrounded by his loving family. Bud began his insurance career in 1954 at Wolf Eisner and Brown in Los Angeles. He founded Hoffman Brown Company in August, 1961 which he built …
Honolulu-based Island Insurance Co. Ltd., has appointed Nova Kim as Agency Partners Program manager. In this newly created position, Kim will be responsible for the company’s Agency Partners Program (APP), which includes training and educational programs for APP participants, in …
The Insurance Professionals of Santa Barbara of the National Association of Insurance Women (International) elected its officers for the 2010-2011 term, effective July 1. The officers are: President Jillian Knight of Westcap Insurance Services Inc.; Vice President Cynthia Acosta of …
