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25 11, 2015

What do Thanksgiving and Climate Change Have in Common?

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You have to be either strange or bored to Google a phrase like “What do climate change and Thanksgiving have in common?” I am a bit of both. And yes, I did. Anyone who reads this column regularly will note …

6 11, 2015

Best Agency to Work For – West: Der Manouel, Where Improvement Is Key

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FRESNO, CALIFORNIA Der Manouel Best Agency to Work For – West Building a great agency starts with building great people. That should be the slogan for Der Manouel Insurance Group in Fresno, Calif. Employees think highly of the agency, and …

4 11, 2015

Best Agency in West: MOC, Where Employee Opinions Matter

By | November 4th, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Best Agency in West: MOC, Where Employee Opinions Matter

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA MOC Insurance Services Best Agency to Work for – West A Team Environment Where Thoughts And Creativity Count Sometimes being a great place to work isn’t about offering the best salaries, the most time off or the …

5 11, 2015

Best Agency in West: SES About Community, Employees

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SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA Best Agency to Work for – West SES Insurance Brokerage Services Inc. Sharing is caring — that goes for your community and your employees. That’s the attitude at Santa Ana, Calif.-based SES Insurance Brokerage Services Inc., which …

3 11, 2015

Wildfires, and Now El Niño May Boost Californian’s Appetites for Surplus Lines

By | November 3rd, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Wildfires, and Now El Niño May Boost Californian’s Appetites for Surplus Lines

There’s little question that the drought and the recent wildfire season that it unleashed pushed more California homeowners into the surplus lines market. Now with the onset of what appears to be a strong El Niño this week in the …

2 11, 2015

Report Shows Month-to-Month Surplus Lines Volatility in California

By | November 2nd, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Report Shows Month-to-Month Surplus Lines Volatility in California

So far it’s been an “unusual year” for surplus lines in California. Filed premiums were up 14.1 percent in October from the same month last year, but that increase followed a 38.3 percent year-over-year drop in September, new figures from …

29 10, 2015

Economic Risks of Climate Change, Climate Fiction and Climate Control

By | October 29th, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Economic Risks of Climate Change, Climate Fiction and Climate Control

With fresh news out on the global economic cost of climate change, an enticing climate fiction contest and a sweet victory for this column, it would take till Christmas to individually cover it all in this bi-weekly column. So I’ll …

15 10, 2015

Lawyers for Female Farmers Attorney Say Class Action Could Involve ‘Hundreds’

By | October 15th, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Lawyers for Female Farmers Attorney Say Class Action Could Involve ‘Hundreds’

An attorney representing a woman suing Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices was set to file a motion on Thursday seeking class action status in a suit she says could potentially encompass 300 female attorneys. The attorney also added five new …

9 10, 2015

Another Report Shows California Workers’ Comp Reforms Working

By | October 9th, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Another Report Shows California Workers’ Comp Reforms Working

A new study on worker’s compensation across 17 states shows that reforms sometimes work – and such is the case of sweeping reforms made in California, the report shows. The Workers Compensation Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research organization based …

1 10, 2015

Watchdog Says Corporations Say One Thing, Do Another on Climate Change

By | October 1st, 2015|Recent Articles|Comments Off on Watchdog Says Corporations Say One Thing, Do Another on Climate Change

It’s all a masquerade. The business world has not embraced action on climate change as statements from some corporations seem to indicate. So says a new watchdog group out of London. Nonprofit InfluenceMap late last month launched a website, along …