North Bay Business Journal

  • New title policy could further crimp lending

    March 15th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — Title insurance companies are no longer providing “creditor’s rights” in accordance with the recent recommendations of both the American Land Title Association and the California Land Title Association.

  • Experts warn about changes to workers’ comp experience ratings

    March 12th, 2010

    NORTH BAY, CALIFORNIA – The impact of new changes to workers’ compensation experience modification factors that went into effect in January are only now being realized and have the potential to significantly increase employers’ premiums on claims, insurers said last week.

  • Insurance column: professionals granted 6% fee cut

    March 12th, 2010

    California insurance brokers, agents and adjusters received a 6 percent fee decrease last week courtesy of Insurance Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner.

  • Woodruff-Sawyer joins leadership group

    February 10th, 2010

    PETALUMA — Woodruff-Sawyer and Company, a privately owned independent insurance brokerage, joined the North Bay Leadership Council.

  • COBRA subsidy extended to laid-off through February

    February 1st, 2010

    NORTH BAY — Congress extended the 65 percent reduction in COBRA health premiums for unemployed workers, set to expire Dec. 31, 2009, and increased the maximum period for receiving the subsidy from nine to 15 months for workers laid off up until Feb. 28, 2010.

  • Workers’ comp rate hikes far below proposals

    February 1st, 2010

    NORTH BAY — Workers’ compensation rate increases by California insurance carriers have remained far below the 22.8 percent increase recommended by the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau for new and renewed policies.

  • Business Insurance People

    February 1st, 2010

    Mike Feeney joined Rogers & Young Insurance Services LLC as a commercial insurance broker focusing on accounts including contractors, truckers, developers and property owners.

  • High-deductible plans see sharp cost increases

    November 16th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – In an informal survey of the region’s top insurance brokerages, experts described prospects for the open enrollment season in several recurring and dismal themes: watered-down coverage, double-digit increases and more simply giving up on benefits all together.

  • Insurance: Poizner cautions against workers’ comp increases

    November 16th, 2009

    Also: U.S. Labor rule would stop collection of genetic information

  • Woodruff-Sawyer grows presence in North Bay

    November 16th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – In the four years since it expanded to the region, San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Company has grown from one of the smallest brokerages in the North Bay to among the top 20, attracting the region’s foremost experts in the industry and launching a wine purchasing pool.

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