Articles by Don Jergler

Best Agency to Work For – West

A Place Where All Work Together Walnut Grove, CaliforniaMeyer & Cook Insurance A nice office view, lots of raises — and a Costco membership. Those are the keys to making employees happy. And those are among the reasons Meyer & …

Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Law at ‘Halftime’

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles to look at California’s workers’ compensation reform law in detail and what must be done to implement that law by Jan. 1, 2013. When Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday …

Report Points to Insurance Industry’s Vulnerability to Climate Change

A report out Thursday urges the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change. In short, the report, its authors and those endorsing it want more efforts …

Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dominates Conference

Senate Bill 863, or the more popular usage “SB 863,” was the phrase at the beginning, end or middle of many-a-conversation during the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Wednesday. The four-day conference drew several hundred people who deal …

IUMI Conference: Unpredictable Time for Marine Insurance

Standing in front of a crowd of several hundred members of the insurance industry, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders must have hit the nail on the head during a speech to the industry on Monday, because agreeable nods could be …

Consumer Watchdog Slams Calif. Prop. 33 Campaign over Libya Tragedy

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 tragedy in Libya where Libyan Ambassador Christopher …

Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three-Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes

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 identifies more than 740,000 residences across 13 …

Workers Comp by a (Big) Nose

With the last minute workers’ compensation reform bill for California racing to the end of legislative session then passing resoundingly, I felt it would be interesting to look back at what some people had to say in a poll on …

Moran Out as Calif. Workers’ Comp Admin Director

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 down. The announcement was made on Thursday by DIR …

California Brokers, Agents React to State Fund New Deal

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 Tuesday premium thresholds are being established to …