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California Workers’ Comp Bureau Issues Report on 3Q Insurer Experience
Dec 13 2016 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Tuesday issued its report on statewide workers’ comp insurer loss and premium experience through Sept 30, which among other things shows that...
Dual Commercial Adds Nesterenko and Lynch in California
Dec 12 2016 // DUAL Commercial has named Melanie Nesterenko and Brian Lynch to their environmental team. Nesterenko and Lynch, both senior underwriters, will be based in San Francisco, Calif. Nesterenko has more than 25 years of...
California Commissioner Orders Investigation into Charges against Wells Fargo
Dec 12 2016 // Update: This story has been updated with a response from Wells Fargo. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today directed the California Department of Insurance to launch an investigation into allegations made by former...
Worker Crushed to Death in Incident at Southern California Landfill
Dec 12 2016 // Authorities say a construction worker has been crushed to death at a landfill in Southern California. Capt. Daryll Milliot with the Orange County Fire Authority says the man in his mid-to-late 30s was killed at Prima...
Suit Accuses California University of Mishandling Sex Assault Reports
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
Study: California Medical Payments Per Comp Claim Decreased After Reforms
Dec 9 2016 // California Senate Bill 863 may have contributed to decreases in medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in 2013 and 2014, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The WCRI study...
CEA Using California Quakes as Opportunity to Spread the Word
Dec 8 2016 // In the way of a magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the Northern California coast at 6:45 a.m., a hundred miles west of Eureka, and then a few hours later a magnitude 5.0 in the same general area, the California Earthquake...
Judge Denies State Farm’s Bid to Stop California Rate Reduction Order
Dec 8 2016 // California Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has denied State Farm’s emergency request to stay Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’s order directing State Farm to reduce homeowner and renter rates by 7...
Casabat Joins Hub International in San Francisco as Benefits Exec
Dec 8 2016 // Hub International of California has added Antonio Casabat as a senior vice president for the employee benefits consultancy, responsible for client advocacy and consulting on behalf of clients located throughout the United...
Survey: California Leads Nation in Insurers Contracting with Diverse Businesses
Dec 7 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones hailed the results from the first national survey of the insurance industry around supplier and governing board diversity issued today. Insurance commissioners from six states...
California’s Cyence Hires Merchant to New York City Office
Dec 7 2016 // Cyence, a San Mateo, Calif., based company that works to empower the insurance industry to model the economic impact of cyber risk, has named John Merchant as director of business development. He will be working with...
Pinnacle Names Brobeck Senior Consulting Actuary in California
Dec 6 2016 // Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. has named Linda K. Brobeck a senior consulting actuary in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. office. Brobeck has been in the property/casualty insurance industry since 1986 and has...
Florida Supreme Court Rules Against Insurer in Concurrent Loss Case
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy. Though the...
California Lawmaker Introduces ‘Superbug’ Infections, Death Reporting Bill
Dec 5 2016 // A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require doctors to record the infections on death certificates when they are a cause of...
Woodruff-Sawyer to Acquire Neovia in California
Dec 5 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. will acquire Neovia Integrated Insurance Services in Santa Barbara, Calif. Woodruff-Sawyer will leverage the proprietary and client-focused employee benefits solutions for which Neovia is...
CSAA in California Names Huebner Chief Risk Officer
Dec 5 2016 // CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, has named Jeff Huebner chief risk officer. Huebner will be responsible for managing all aspects of enterprise risk for the company, including traditional risk management, reinsurance,...
California High Court Rules Firms Must Protect Households From Asbestos
Dec 5 2016 // The California Supreme Court says companies can be held liable for exposing members of a worker’s household to asbestos. The court ruled unanimously that companies have a responsibility to prevent such exposure when...
California, Texas Top Western States for Extreme Risk of Wildfire Damage
Dec 5 2016 // California and Texas rank first and second for the total number of residential properties at an extreme risk for wildfire damage, according to data provider CoreLogic. The reasons for that include: both states have large...
DIR: California Independent Medical Review Shows Improvements
Dec 5 2016 // A California Department of Industrial Relations progress report shows continuing improvement of the state’s Independent Medical Review process. IMR is the medical dispute resolution process that uses medical...
Jones: Undocumented License Law in California May Have Led to UM Drop
Dec 5 2016 // A California law that provided driver’s licenses to those who could not submit proof of legal presence in the U.S. may have led to a decrease in the number of uninsured motorists in the state, according to a...
