Applied Underwriters’ California Insurance Company subsidiary is still in conservation under the control of the Conservation and Liquidation office. Now CIC has filed a motion to lift that conservation order. …
Every year with the first issue of the new year, Workers’ Comp Executive compiles a list of the “Top Stories” from the prior 12 months. Some years produce more newsworthy events than others, such as when major legislative reforms occur, there are shakeups in the workers’ comp market, or when scandals are exposed. Well, 2019 …
A Sacramento Superior Court judge refused to block California Department of Insurance Administrative Law Judges from using the findings from a settled case as the basis for deciding another one challenging the State Compensation Insurance Fund’s tiered rating system. The court sustained demurrers filed by CDI and A-Brite Blind and Drapery, who each maintained that …
In a stunning and unprecedented development, the New Mexico Insurance Department has issued a news release saying it does not recognize the California Court Order of Conservation for Applied Underwriters’’ …
Attorneys representing the California Department of Insurance and The Travelers will be in a Los Angeles courtroom next month to continue a nearly four-year-old dispute over what the Department says is the the illegality of the unfiled side agreements Travelers used in its large deductible workers’ comp program. Former Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued a …
The California Department of Insurance has seized Applied Underwriters’ California Insurance Company and put it into receivership. CDI sought and obtained a court order. The action follows Applied’s alleged merger …
By Workers’ Comp Executive State regulation of insurance was dealt a sharp blow this week. No, it wasn’t because of any action in Congress or a pronouncement from the Federal …
The attorney for American Labor Alliance and its parent Agricultural Contracting Services Association is asking a Fresno Superior Court to strike down a California Department of Insurance $5,000 per day …