Latest California Headlines
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Study: More Than 2 Million California Homes Exposed To High Wildfire Danger
Sep 19 2012 // More than 2 million homes in California face “extreme wildfire hazards,” over 400,000 of which are in Los Angeles County, according to a study issued Wednesday by an insurance industry group. A study by the...
Brown Signs Calif. Workers’ Comp Bill
Sep 18 2012 // California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill to increase disability benefits for injured workers while taking a bite out of the rising cost of workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Lawmakers approved the...
Young Illegal Immigrants May Get Driver’s Licenses
Sep 16 2012 // When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend. Most...
Corporate Lawyers Rank California, Illinois, West Virgina Low for Legal Climate
Sep 14 2012 // Lawyers for U.S. companies say California, Illinois and West Virginia have some of the worst legal climates in the country for businesses, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform...
Consumer Watchdog Slams Calif. Prop. 33 Campaign over Libya Tragedy
Sep 13 2012 // The battle over an automobile insurance persistency initiative is heating up, with the latest volley over a radio advertisement targeting a military audience that opponents are calling on to be removed following the...
U. of California Sues Facebook, Wal-Mart, Disney Over Patents
Sep 13 2012 // A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more — Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co. Eolas Technologies Inc. and the...
Henry Named Director of Solar Underwriting for Assurant in Southern California
Sep 11 2012 // Assurant’s solar group named Cindy Henry as the new director of Solar Underwriting and Account Management. Henry will be based in Fountain Valley, Calif. and support the company’s solar insurance business and...
Metrolink Victims in California Claim Inadequate Compensation
Sep 11 2012 // As the fourth anniversary of a deadly Metrolink crash approaches, many survivors of the incident in Southern California say a federal liability cap has left them inadequately compensated. Just a year after a judge rationed...
EPIC Names Rowe Development Executive for Programs in California
Sep 11 2012 // San Ramon, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Connie Rowe vice president and business development executive in the firm’s San Ramon-based Programs Group. Rowe will expand her support of...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three-Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
People – West
Sep 10 2012 // Denver, Colo.-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. named Don Woods its new president. Woods is co-founder and CEO of Community Bankshares Inc. and its subsidiaries. Under Woods, Community Bankshares Inc. grew to over $2...
A Duty (to Settle) Too Far
Sep 10 2012 // Sometimes, courts should leave well enough alone – and this especially applies to the law that has been developed over decades as to a liability insurer’s duty to settle third-party claims. In the overwhelming...
Calif. Sues Doctor over Aggressive Billing Tactics
Sep 10 2012 // The California Attorney General’s office is suing a Los Angeles County doctor over her practice of refusing to accept lower insurance company reimbursements and instead billing patients for the full amount. The...
Brown Signs Electronic Proof Of Insurance Bill
Sep 7 2012 // Gov. Jerry Brown made California the seventh state in the nation to allow drivers to show proof of insurance coverage using their smart phone. Brown on Friday signed Assembly Bill 1708, a bill authored by Assemblyman...
Esurance Pay-Drive Filing Approved
Sep 7 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a personal auto filing by Esurance that will allow its policyholders to voluntarily participate in a pay-drive verified mileage auto program. Under the San...
IBA West Members To Vote On Name Change
Sep 7 2012 // IBA West is entertaining a name change. The group, which represents several thousand brokers and agents and is comprised of 31 affiliated local associations, announced a special meeting slated for Oct. 12 to consider a...
Moran Out as Calif. Workers’ Comp Admin Director
Sep 6 2012 // Rosa Moran, one of the members of Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Industrial Relations team that helped to hammer out a last-minute deal to reform California’s workers’ compensation system, has stepped...
California Brokers, Agents React to State Fund New Deal
Sep 5 2012 // Reaction to a decision by State Compensation Insurance Fund to restructure its broker distribution model has ranged from guardedly optimistic to visceral the day following the announcment. Under the new deal announced on...
Agents, Brokers to Deal with State Fund Wholesalers
Sep 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will now require most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. An estimated 3,500 agents and brokers will be...
California State Fund Restructures Broker Distribution
Sep 4 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed its broker distribution model, requiring most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. The change,...
