Latest California Headlines
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California Data Breach Shows Risk of Online Health Records
Aug 23 2011 // Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the...
California Lawyer Sentenced in Huge Auto Fraud Case
Aug 22 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that Susana Ragos Chung, 60, a Los Angeles area based attorney has been sentenced in Alameda Superior Court for Insurance Fraud. Chung entered pleas of no...
California Targets Law Firms It Says Preyed On Struggling Homeowners
Aug 22 2011 // California has broken up what it called a ring of law firms that fraudulently induced struggling homeowners nationwide to pay thousands of dollars each to file mass lawsuits against their mortgage lenders. Kamala Harris,...
California Software Firm Acquires Multifamily Insurance Group of Dallas
Aug 17 2011 // Santa Barbara, Calif.-based real estate management software firm Yardi has acquired Dallas-based Multifamily Insurance Group (MIG) in a move that allows it to provide renters insurance to its property owner clients. Yardi...
California Economy Impacts Workers’ Compensation Costs
Aug 16 2011 // Workers’ compensation benefits for workers injured on the job in California decreased 1.6 percent to $9.3 billion in 2009, according to a study released today by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). In...
Scott Joins California’s SullivanCurtisMonroe
Aug 16 2011 // SullivanCurtisMonroe has named Jacqueline Scott a vice president in its Irvine, California, office. The agency is focused on middle-market companies. Prior to joining SCM, Scott held the position of vice president at...
California Initiative Will Ask Voters to Expand Persistency Discounts
Aug 15 2011 // The California Attorney General’s office last week released a title and a summary of a proposed ballot initiative that would allow automobile insurers to offer “persistency discounts” to new...
California Insurers Call for Carmageddon II
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
California Allows Homeowners Insurance for Cars
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
California Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Comp Payment Increases
Aug 12 2011 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that cost of living adjustments in total permanent disability cases are to be calculated starting the January 1 after the injured worker started collecting his or her payments. The...
California Insurance Commissioner Addresses Insurer S&P Downgrade
Aug 11 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones yesterday issued the following statement in regard to the downgrade by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) of the credit rating of certain insurers from AAA to AA+ associated...
Southern California’s Momentous Adds New In-House Counsel
Aug 11 2011 // Kathleen Bragg-Pebley has joined Momentous Insurance Brokerage, of Van Nuys, Calif., as in-house counsel effective August 1, 2011. She was previously a senior associate at Wilson Elser and has over a decade of legal...
Workers at California’s PG&E Claim Safety Ignored
Aug 10 2011 // A Northern California newspaper is reporting that Pacific Gas and Electric repeatedly ignored safety concerns raised by its employees in the years before last year’s deadly pipeline explosion in San Bruno and...
California’s PacWest Expands with Two New Agencies
Aug 9 2011 // PacWest Alliance Insurance Services, Inc. welcomes two new members: Hooper, Spuhler & Sturgeon Insurance Services and Moore & Miller Insurance Agency. Hooper, Spuhler & Sturgeon Insurance Services is located in...
California Workers’ Compensation Industry Taking Ogilvie Ruling in Stride
Aug 8 2011 // The most recent twist in the long-running Ogilvie case over the setting of disability payments for permanently injured workers may not be the big blow to the California workers’ compensation system some initially...
IBA San Diego Hosts Luncheon Discussion August 17th, 2011: “State of the Reinsurance Industry-How Changes Could Affect the Agent and Insured!”
Aug 8 2011 // San Diego, August 8, 2011 – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego in partnership with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s San Diego Steering Committee, will be hosting a lunch discussion on...
California Insurance Department Gives Grants to District Attorneys
Aug 5 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced $3.2 million in grants to California District Attorneys aimed at combating fraudulent disability and health claims against insurance carriers and to protect...
AIPSO Appoints Western Region Manager
Aug 5 2011 // AIPSO has appointed Roberta Haskins to serve as the manager of its Western Region, which includes the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan (CAARP), the California Low Cost Program, and the Western Association of...
California Governor Signs Surplus Lines Bill
Aug 4 2011 // California’s Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today applauded Governor Jerry Brown for signing legislation, sponsored by the Department of Insurance, which allows California to implement provisions in a new federal...
California Man Arrested for Faking Death
Aug 3 2011 // A Southern California man and his wife were arrested Monday on suspicion of faking the man’s death in 2004 so their family could receive life insurance and other death benefits, authorities said. Authorities received...
