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October 31, 2023
Chuck Weissman just moved to Corvel as a senior claims specialist and he loves jalapeño peppers

March 21, 2023
She wasn’t looking. But through serendipity, Crystal Johnson has wound up a senior associate attorney at Pearlman, Brown & Wax.

February 24, 2023
Patti Williams, veteran risk manager, now a manager at COSIPA

January 23, 2023
Tracy Calhoun promoted to Vice President of Training and Compliance at Intercare.

Cecilia Zapien-Hernandez was gracious enough to write to me after my last column and tell me that Dominic Russo, Leonard Russo’s son, is the new President of AIMS (Acclamation Insurance Management Services), a TPA in California, which is taking over the DPSS L.A. County Account now being handled by Cambridge Integrated Services Group, Inc., in Pasadena.  AIMS will soon handle L.A. County DPSS starting in January 2006 in a branch office rumored to be opening in Valencia, California.

Ms. Hernandez is currently the Workers’ Compensation Manager for Dunn-Edwards Corporation, located in Los Angeles.  Cecilia also tells me that she worked for LJR Insurance Services (Leonard Russo) in the 1980s, and that the name later changed to LJR/Adjustco.  The RTD, which stood for Rapid Transit District, was one of the accounts handled by LJR in a Los Angeles Area location office during that 1980s time period.  Later, the RTD disbanned, and a new organization formed called the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).   

So, my imagination is now anticipating a new question: why did RTD dissolve and allow MTA to replace it?  Not being a Los Angeles native, and being rather ignorant of L.A. history, I hope for reader response on this one!   Thank you and I love you in advance!   

Tomasina Albarado has just left her work comp claims examiner position with Sedgwick CMS in Orange, and has joined Broadspire in Brea also as an examiner.  Tomasina previously worked as an examiner at Crum & Forster in Orange and at CNA in Brea.  

Sandra Ballas has gone to A.I.G. in Costa Mesa as a work comp examiner.  Sandra was part of the gang at Cambridge Integrated Services Group in Costa Mesa.  That office closed on October 31^st, 2005.  Sandra started her claims career at Unicare Insurance Company in 1991, and worked there for nearly 10 years—even after it was purchased by Fremont Compensation Insurance Company.  

Dan Bonarek, a senior claims examiner, is now working at Sedgwick CMS in Long Beach.  Dan was also part of the Cambridge in Costa Mesa society. Dan lives in Anaheim, California.