California Insurance Commissioner and Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has announced his 2006 campaign team, which includes key participants in the successful campaign to defeat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ballot initiatives. Earlier this month, all of Schwarzenegger’s key proposals …
Danny DeVito has a $26 check waiting for him from Allstate Insurance. Reese Witherspoon is owed nearly $100 by Tiffany Co. And California first lady Maria Shriver has more than $300 waiting for her in the state’s unclaimed property vault, …
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed several bills dealing with automobile insurance and safety. SB 20 legislation will extend a low-cost auto insurance program through 2011. SB 150 requires insurance companies to provide consumers with a written specific reason for …
California Judge throws out $700 million jury award in Executive Life Suit A federal judge has thrown out a $700 million (euro586 million) award for punitive damages won by the state of California in a lawsuit stemming from the takeover …
State Compensation Insurance Fund’s San Francisco District Office is hosting a free Office Ergonomics Workshop to help employers learn the benefits of “fitting the job to the worker rather than forcing the worker to fit the job.” The workshop will …
Andrea Hoch, who has served as director of the California’s workers’ compensation program since 2004, has been named by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as his legal affairs secretary. Hoch, whose tenure as head of the insurance program was marked by conflict …
The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) has commended Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for signing into law two bills designed to improve highway safety. The bills are AB 1325, which addresses motor vehicle speed contests, and AB 1474, which amends the …
A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of California’s Central Valley. Any flood plain protected …
A new federal policy outlined a week before Hurricane Katrina struck could force residents in hundreds of communities nationwide to buy flood insurance and halt construction in some low-lying areas, including parts of California’s Central Valley. Any flood plain protected …
Annual deaths from fires blamed on cigarettes have fallen by a third in New York, which was the first state that required tobacco companies to sell self-extinguishing cigarettes, a state official said recently. Last year 28 people died in New …
