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Warren G. Bender in California Names Amano Commercial Lines Account Executive
Jan 7 2019 // Sacramento, Calif.-based Warren G. Bender Co. has named Kaz Amano an account executive in its commercial lines department. He has more than 12 years of prior experience in commercial insurance. He was previously an account...
Western Region Could See Action on Disaster Mitigation, Independent Contractors, Workers’ Comp
Jan 7 2019 // Most eyeballs were on California during the midterm elections in November, with polar opposite candidates facing off in the race for governor as well as the office of insurance commissioner. As in most years, Democrats...
BevMo in California Warns of Customer Credit Card Data Breach
Jan 7 2019 // BevMo warned that a data breach may have allowed a hacker to steal credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who used the alcohol-seller’s website. The Concord, Calif.-based company...
California Regulators Say Utility Falsified Pipeline Safety Record
Jan 7 2019 // Regulators have accused one of California’s largest utilities of falsifying safety documents for natural gas pipelines for years following its criminal conviction and multimillion-dollar fine for a pipeline explosion...
California’s 376 Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2017 Equals Previous Year, Report Shows
Jan 7 2019 // The California Department of Industrial Relations issued a report last month showing that 376 Californians died on the job in 2017, the same as in 2016. California’s workplace fatality rate remains stable with slight...
5 Lessons to Take Away from the California Wildfires
Jan 7 2019 // The California wildfires of 2018 were devastating, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, costing numerous lives and destroying thousands of properties. The California Department of Insurance in early December put the...
AM Best: Negative Rating Implications from Wildfires for California Capital and Subsidiaries
Jan 7 2019 // AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of California Capital Insurance Co. and its...
More Marijuana Products in California Passing Safety Tests
Jan 7 2019 // A higher percentage of California marijuana products are passing strict safety tests, but the sudden closing of a lab that state authorities found wasn’t correctly checking for pesticides has raised new questions...
2018 Agents of the Year
Jan 7 2019 // Jacob Barzivand Paramount Exclusive Insurance Services Inc. | Encino, California Jacob Barzivand started working as an insurance producer right after college at the age of 20. Now, at just 26, he’s built a sizable...
States Surprised with Burst of Insurance Fraud-Related Legislation in 2018
Jan 7 2019 // Lawmakers Debated More Than 100 Fraud-Related Bills and Passed 33 into Law The introduction of new bills slows down during years when legislators tend to be more concerned with reelection. That’s why 2018 was such a...
California Supreme Court Upholds Commissioner’s Regulatory Actions Against PacifiCare
Jan 4 2019 // The California Supreme Court let stand an appeals court decision upholding California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations, paving the way for millions of dollars in...
Dentists Benefits and Northwest Dentists to Merge With The Dentists Insurance Co. in California
Jan 4 2019 // Dentists Benefits Insurance Co. and Northwest Dentists Insurance Co., acquired by The Dentists Insurance Co. in 2017, have merged into parent company TDIC. The merger was effective Jan. 1 after final regulatory approval....
California County to Pay $5M in Torture-Killing of Girl
Jan 4 2019 // The city and county of Napa in Northern California will pay $5 million to relatives of a 3-year-old girl who was tortured and killed by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. The San Francisco Chronicle says a...
California Commissioner: Impact of COIN Investments Estimated to Reach $29B
Jan 3 2019 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday issued a report today detailing the progress of the California Organized Investment Network during his administration. COIN is a program within the California...
Southern California City Asking Residents for Suggestions on Battling Climate Change
Jan 3 2019 // The city of Long Beach, Calif. is soliciting help from its citizens to come up with a plan to deal with climate change. The coastal city of roughly half-a-million, which was an early adopter of the ban on plastic bags and...
$10M Penalty in Wells Fargo California Case, Can’t Do New Business Until at Least 2020
Jan 2 2019 // Wells Fargo has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty as part of a settlement agreement with the California Department of Insurance. The settlement with the CDI, announced on Wednesday, resolves the department’s...
California Wildfires: Where Do We Go From Here?
Jan 2 2019 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. The last few months of 2018 were record-setting and heartbreaking for the survivors of wildfires in California. The Camp Fire in Butte County quickly became the most...
Prosecutors Say California Fires May Mean PG&E Violated Criminal Sentence
Jan 2 2019 // A California utility’s role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal sentence in a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people, federal prosecutors...
Warren G. Bender Adds Makis as Personal Lines Account Executive in California
Dec 31 2018 // Warren G. Bender Co. has named Stephen Makis an account executive in its personal lines department. He has more than 16 years of experience in providing personal insurance consultation throughout California and other...
Ascot Expands U.S. Marine Team With Johnson and Factor in California
Dec 31 2018 // Ascot has named Chris Johnson and Jocelyne Factor as underwriters in the U.S. marine team. Both will be based in the new San Francisco office, expanding Ascot’s geographic footprint to the West Coast. Johnson, senior...
