Fred Drexler, Founder of CWCI Died 12/7 at Age 88

Fred Drexler, the former chairman of Industrial Indemnity Company in San Francisco, died Sunday, Dec. 7 at the age of 88. Drexler founded the California Workers' Compensation Institute in 1964, and was named Insurance Man of the Year in Los Angeles in 1971 and in San Francisco in 1972. In addition to founding a national organization in the late 1960s that led to improved benefits for workers, Drexler also served as vice chairman of the California Insurance Guarantee Association, served twice as chairman of the then California Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau, and as president of the...