NEWS
September 21, 1988 | KENNETH REICH, Times Staff Writer
Based on his own polling, Harvey Englander, coordinator for Proposition 101, the November ballot initiative backed primarily by dissident insurance man Harry O. Miller, says Californians want lower auto insurance rates even if it means giving up some of their rights to recover damages. If Englander is right, Proposition 101 would seem to have excellent prospects at the ballot box. The measure promises a 50% cut in rates charged for the bodily injury component of auto insurance policies.
NEWS
August 30, 1989 | KENNETH REICH, Times Staff Writer
The former chief executive officer of the failed Coastal Insurance Co., in sworn testimony Tuesday to a legislative panel, admitted mismanaging the company but denied "any plot or conspiracy" to skim funds from it, as charged last month by executives of Coastal affiliates. Harry O.
NEWS
July 27, 1989 | KENNETH REICH, Times Staff Writer
The chairman of the state Assembly's insurance committee has questioned whether Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie created "the appearance of impropriety" by naming a liquidator for the bankrupt Coastal Insurance Co. whose wife once worked for a man who later became the company's chief executive officer.
NEWS
November 27, 2001 | JOSH MEYER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft on Monday named veteran mediator Kenneth R. Feinberg as special master of the government's Sept. 11 compensation fund, making him the sole arbiter of how much money thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks will receive. Feinberg, a Washington attorney specializing in mediation, arbitration and negotiation, has held similar roles before, including that of special master in a multibillion-dollar Agent Orange lawsuit.