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California Report Details How to Reduce Fraudulent Insurance Claims
Following a meeting with his Advisory Task Force on Insurance Fraud, Blue Ribbon Review Committee, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that…Read more →Insurance and Cell Phone Driving. Why They Don’t Mix Together?
The notion that talking on a cell phone while driving a car isn’t safe seems obvious, yet what happens in the brain…Read more →California Assembly Passes Agent-Broker Bill
The California Assembly passed a bill that would help to clarify when an insurance professional is acting in the capacity of a…Read more →California Assembly Insurance Committee Passes Agent-Broker Bill
California’s Assembly Insurance Committee has passed Assembly Bill 2956 by a vote of 7-0, moving one step closer to codifying the traditional…Read more →Insurers Boost California Economy By $27.3 Billion
Insurance Journal reports that California has a $1.6 trillion economy that ranks it as a global financial power, thanks in part to…Read more →California judge approves Ford Explorer settlement
DetailsRead more →California Earthquake Authority To Use New Science in Determining Rates
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) announced today it will begin using a newly released, uniform scientific method in determining insurance rates and…Read more →Franchise Industry Feeling The US Economic Slowdown — Part Of a Cycle
from Small Business Trends by Joel LibavaFirst the good news: Our economy runs in up and down cycles. Folks, nothing stays the…Read more →Anti-discrimination Language Proposed
Orlando, Fla. – The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is advancing a rule that will protect insurance consumers from discriminatory underwriting…Read more →California Names New Associate Insurance Commissioner and Press Secretary
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that Darrel Ng will serve as associate insurance commissioner for communications and press relations, and press…Read more →Report: Lobbyists Spend $17 Million a Day on Congress; Insurance Ranks Second
Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby in Washington, the nonpartisan Center…Read more →Insurer, reinsurer formations decline in Bermuda
By Mark A. Hofmann HAMILTON, Bermuda—Seventy-one new insurance and reinsurance companies formed in the Bermuda market last year, the Bermuda Monetary Authority…Read more →Make insurance the easiest thing on your to-do list.
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