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California Man Nabbed for Auto Insurance Fraud
Oct 9 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that Tony Lu, 56, of San Jose, was arrested on October 7 and charged with filing a false motor vehicle claim, perjury and falsely reporting a crime. Lu was...
California NAIW Elects San Diego Director
Oct 9 2009 // the California Council of National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW), International (www.cacouncilnaiw.com) recently held its award ceremony at the annual State Meeting in Fresno and Wendy Pike, CPCU, CPIW was awarded...
California’s Stone Creek Insurance Hires Two
Oct 8 2009 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency headquartered in Lafayette, Calif.has appointed Dede Szykier as the customer service manager and David Seidel as head of targeted marketing productions. Dede comes with extensive experience in...
California Art Theft “Stinks” Police Say
Oct 8 2009 // Two men who claim thieves broke into their rental home in the ritzy coastal enclave of Pebble Beach and made off with millions of dollars worth of art were named as suspects in the case Tuesday. Monterey County...
California Wildfires Raise Landslide Risk
Oct 8 2009 // Rainstorms could send huge flows of water laden with mud, rocks and other debris toward cities below steep slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains stripped bare by a wildfire near Los Angeles this summer, federal scientists...
California Insurers Waive Flu Shot Co-Pay
Oct 8 2009 // California ‘s six largest health insurers will waive co-pays and deductibles to make sure their members can all get the H1N1 flu vaccine, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced yesterday. “I am...
California Commissioner Questions Workers’ Comp Increase
Oct 7 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is indicating that he may not support the state Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) request to increase the Workers Compensation Cost Claims...
California’s Woodruff-Sawyer Buys Western D&O from Carpenter Moore
Oct 6 2009 // California insurance agency Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has acquired the Western region direct practice of Carpenter Moore from NASDAQ OMX Group Inc., according to the company. The Western region direct practice, based in...
California Workers’ Comp Group Expands to Country Clubs
Oct 6 2009 // Spurred by new member growth in September, the California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corporation (CRMBC) has eclipsed the $1.3 billion covered payroll mark. California’s largest self-insured group (SIG) says it now...
Cooler Temperatures Aid California Fire Crews
Oct 6 2009 // Cooling temperatures and higher humidity on Monday gave firefighters some welcome relief as they waged an ongoing assault against a wildfire that had burned to the edges of a popular resort town in the San Gabriel...
California Environmental Extremist Arrested for 2006 Arson
Oct 5 2009 // Three years after the discovery of a failed incendiary device at a suburban Pasadena real estate construction site, FBI agents have used DNA analysis to arrest a man in Texas in a case they believe may involve...
Fire in Southern California Destroys Three Residences
Oct 5 2009 // A fire driven by winds of more than 40 mph destroyed three homes and threatened dozens of others in a rugged warren of mountains and canyons northeast of San Bernardino on Saturday. As a huge wall of flames chewed through...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Oct 5 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Oct 5 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
Poizner Urges No Iranian Investments by Insurers
Oct 5 2009 // Just days ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent address to the United Nations in New York, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner encouraged his fellow state insurance commissioners to...
Health Rates Rose Fast in West
Oct 5 2009 // Family health care premiums rose an estimated three to five times faster than earnings for workers in Western states from 2000 through 2009, according to a report issued by the consumer health organization Families USA. In...
California Fires Renew Push for National Arson Registry
Oct 5 2009 // The deadly fire at Angeles National Forest is renewing a push from California lawmakers for a national registry of convicted arsonists. Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein have filed legislation that would...
California Firm Seeks Dismissal of $70 Million in Workers’ Comp Charges
Oct 5 2009 // As part an agreement to resolve criminal charges, Premier Medical Management Systems Inc. of Los Angeles is asking a California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board judge to dismiss an estimated $70 million of medical...
Declarations
Oct 5 2009 // Real Stuff “When the bubble burst, however, those risky mortgages defaulted in record numbers and investors were left holding worthless securities, unable to sell them. Subsequently, the agencies downgraded the...
Not Business As Usual: AIG to Hold Low Cost Conference for Financial Advisers
Oct 2 2009 // American International Group Inc. is again hosting some of the top U.S. financial advisers and says that this time, the gathering at a California resort will cost it just $30,000. The insurer, sharply criticized for...
