May 16, 2012
California is the top dog in State Farm’s annual list of dog bite claims, and the state’s reported 527 dog bite claims and more than $20 million paid out in 2011 by the Bloomington, Ill.-based carrier represents an increase of …
May 7, 2012
At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers’ compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour session. It was titled, “Informational Hearing, Injured …
May 7, 2012
The phrase “Go west young man,” may not apply so well to the insurance industry in the nation’s most populous state. An examination of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Development Department data for California shows hiring for the insurance …
May 7, 2012
Steve Young was somewhat upbeat when he was asked what he thought about the outcome of a long-brewing legal battle between three insurance associations and the California Department of Insurance. That upbeat attitude is because a court of appeals accepted …
May 7, 2012
Put the following in the “I’ll be dead or too old to care” category. Drivers will save $68 billion in fuel costs when the Obama Administration’s 54.5 miles-per-gallon standard is fully implemented in 2030, according to a report by the …
May 3, 2012
With a quote from former president Ronald Reagan, an emergency motion from a sex toy business and increasingly acerbic accusations, the legal battle between the new and old owners of bankrupt agency C.M. Meiers continues to wage as each side …
April 26, 2012
The California Senate Insurance Committee passed a law regarding reinsurers that would put the state in alignment with the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and a model law from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Senate Bill …
April 20, 2012
Sunday is Earth Day and one thing you can expect when you have a day for something as big as a planet is some pretty big statements, and now that the economy is on the mend, there are those who …
April 17, 2012
The auction and sale of C.M. Meiers Co. Inc., an out-of-trust Woodland Hills, Calif.-based insurance agency in bankruptcy, is a done deal. But the buyers and former owners are now in a squabble over allegations that the former owners “raided …
April 17, 2012
The phrase “Go west young man,” may not apply so well to the insurance industry in the nation’s most populous state. An examination of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Development Department data for California shows hiring for the insurance …