Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Offers PPO Ratings on the Web
Nov 18 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has launched of a new report card on its Web site (www.insurance.ca.gov) that will allow consumers to make more informed choices about which Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) is...
California Insurance Agent Arrested for $6 Million Scam
Nov 18 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said that William A. Sassman, 41, of Sacramento was arrested early Nov. 16 on 43 felony counts of grand theft, 40 felony counts of selling unauthorized securities, 16 felony...
California Agent Collected Bogus Premiums While on Bail
Nov 17 2009 // California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has announced that Louise May Batchelor, 55, of San Diego was sentenced Nov. 6 to 365 days of work furlough, five years probation and ordered to pay restitution...
California Warns Major Retailers about Products with Lead
Nov 17 2009 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. sent a letter last week to six major retailers, warning them that a number of children’s products on their store shelves were found to contain “illegal levels of...
California Commissioner Touts Wildfire Payment Recoveries
Nov 16 2009 // On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Sayre, Tea and Freeway Fires in Southern California, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced in a press statement Friday that the California Department of Insurance...
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Nov 15 2009 // Alan Ring has joined National Contractors Insurance Co., Inc. (NCIC), a risk retention group, headquartered in Big Fork, Montana, as director of sales and marketing. Ring will be based in NCIC’s Anaheim Hills,...
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Nov 15 2009 // Alan Ring joined National Contractors Insurance Co. Inc. (NCIC), a risk retention group, headquartered in Big Fork, Mont., as director of sales and marketing. Prior to joining NCIC, Ring was a regional manager for...
California Agents Win Case Against State Farm
Nov 15 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is going to have to pay the defense costs of two former agents it fired, and then sued, according to a court decision handed down recently. The well-known dispute between the two agents...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund Names Interim CEO
Nov 15 2009 // The board of directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) appointed Doug Stewart, chief risk officer, as president and CEO on an interim basis, replacing outgoing CEO Janet D. Frank. “The...
California Insurance Lobbyist Named Most Trustworthy
Nov 13 2009 // IBA West’s legislative advocate in Sacramento, John Norwood, was named the “most trustworthy” lobbyist in the California capitol by a survey of Legislators. The survey was conducted by Capitol Weekly, a...
Southern California Agents Pleads to Fraud
Nov 12 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner today announced that Edwin A. Flores, 33, of Long Beach pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor grand theft and was sentenced Nov. 5 to two years probation, 120 hours of...
Fifteenth Car Set Ablaze in Northern California
Nov 12 2009 // Police are increasing patrols after an arsonist set another car on fire in Contra Costa County in Northern California. After a car fire in El Sobrante around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, authorities say at least 15 cars have been...
California Prosecutors Won’t Retry Cal Tech Arsonist
Nov 11 2009 // Federal prosecutors say they won’t retry a California Institute of Technology graduate student on arson charges for helping firebomb dozens of SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley. Monday’s decision in Los Angeles...
California’s SCIF Announces Five Percent Rate Increase
Nov 11 2009 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund today announced it has filed a 5 percent rate increase in collectible premium. The revised rate will apply to new and renewal workers’ compensation policies...
California Recovers $27 Million for San Diegans
Nov 10 2009 // California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner yesterday announced that the Department of Insurance (CDI) has recovered more than $27 million from insurance companies in the aftermath of the devastating Witch...
California’s Poizner Rejects Workers’ Comp Increase Request, Again
Nov 10 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has rejected for the second time this year an insurance industry request for a large increase in the workers’ compensation benchmark premium rate. The Workers’...
California Company Names San Francisco Chairman
Nov 9 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services (AJGRMS), the retail property/casualty (P/C) brokerage division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Los Angeles, has named Don Tarantino the area chairman of its San Francisco...
Suspicious Fires in Washington and California
Nov 6 2009 // Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says a fire at 3:43 a.m. burned the back porch of an accounting office. A fire a...
California Man Convicted of Insurance Licensing Perjury
Nov 6 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner yesterday announced that Byron Andres Prado, 21, of Northridge was convicted November 2 of one count of misdemeanor identity theft. He was sentenced to 53 days served in jail...
California Agents Win Case Against State Farm
Nov 6 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company is going to have to pay the defense costs of the two former agents the insurance company fired, and then sued, according to a court decision handed down last week. The well-known...
