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CA Insurance Commissioner Calls on Insurers to Invest in Community Development

Dave Jones, the California Insurance Commissioner, has offered the insurance industry $4.67 million worth of tax credits to invest in under-served communities. In a letter he sent to the CEOs of insurance companies doing business in California, Jones encouraged insurers to place part of their $4 trillion in investments into COIN – the California Organization […]

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Landscaper Insurance???

Okay, we know there is insurance out there for almost everything. I mean, just last Christmas we learned that you can get insurance in case you fall out of a sleigh. But a lawmaker in Rhode Island has recently filed a bill that would require landscapers to register with the state and carry at least […]

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California Insurance Commissioner Files Lawsuit to Prevent Iranian Investments

Steve Poizner -a California Insurance Commissioner, has stated that he is filing a lawsuit challenging last month’s decision from the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) that his efforts to prevent insurance companies from investing in Iran constituted an “underground regulation.” Poizner’s lawsut contests the OA’s analysis of this issue and also seeks to clarify […]

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Recycling and Insurance?

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency and it’s Earth Day awareness program. We’re all familiar with the EPA’s “reduce, reuse, and recycle” slogan, but that phrase is much more than a mere tagline. The EPA wants it to be a way of life for people and businesses throughout the country. In […]

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Hospital Cost Shifting Not a New Trend

Recent confirmed reports of an alarming change within the hospital industry, one that has been going on since long before the passage of the healthcare reform bill last month: Because they get lower reimbursements from public health insurance services like Medicaid and Medicare, many hospitals are trying to find new ways of making money, and […]

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