All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2024 // Delos Insurance Solutions plans to offer wildfire insurance to more California policyholders with vacant properties. Delos is expanding coverage availability through a partnership with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s...
May 6 2024 // Hub International Ltd. acquired Merriwether & Williams Insurance Services Inc. Merriwether & Williams has locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, The firm provides contractor development abd bonding...
May 6 2024 // The first quarter of the year saw the sixth straight quarterly increase (.7%) in overall registrations in California in the first quarter from the same period last year, while the state’s love affair with...
May 6 2024 // Strategic Risk Solutions, Garnet Captive Insurance ServicesStrategic Risk Solutions (SRS) reported it has agreed to acquire Garnet Captive Insurance Services, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, firm that partners with select...
May 6 2024 // Lloyd’s appointed Dawn Miller chief commercial officer and CEO of Lloyd’s Americas. Miller, who joined Lloyd’s in 2022 and oversees its global network as commercial director, will assume her expanded role...
May 6 2024 // New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that is likely to trigger...
May 3 2024 // A California business owner convicted of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud was ordered to pay $687,560 in restitution to the victims.An investigation by the California Department of Insurance determined...
May 2 2024 // Kent Bo Fridolfsson, 67, of Benicia, California, pleaded guilty to six charges of insurance fraud and grand theft after a joint investigation with the California Department of Insurance, Solano County District...
May 1 2024 // Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found.Don’t get used to it because with climate...
Apr 30 2024 // Larry Ellison plans to make Nashville the world headquarters for Oracle Corp., only a few years after relocating the tech giant from Silicon Valley to Austin.Ellison said Oracle is developing a campus in the Tennessee...
Apr 30 2024 // Capitola Insurance in California has completed its rebranding to Flow Specialty and the specialty wholesaler has added new leadership.David Derigiotis has been named president of brokerage and head of insurance. Derigiotis...
Apr 30 2024 // The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.In...
Apr 29 2024 // Ricardo Lara California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara made several appointments to the state’s curriculum board and insurance diversity task force. Lara named Aretha Hartley as the newest member of the...
Apr 29 2024 // Warren Buffett’s warning that wildfires have turned utilities across the western US into risky investments is mistaken — at least in California, according to the head of the state’s largest electricity...
Apr 26 2024 // South Lake Tahoe, CA., April 26, 2024 – The California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) proudly announces Jerry Rice, the legendary former professional football player, as the VIP speaker for their Annual Summer...
Apr 26 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted its Sept. 1, 2024, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory rates on average 0.9% above the...
Apr 25 2024 // New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that is likely to trigger...
Apr 24 2024 // Omaha National Group Inc. acquired Sutter Insurance Co., a California domiciled carrier. Sutter Insurance has been renamed Omaha National Casualty Co. Omaha National also owns Omaha National Insurance Co., which is...
Apr 19 2024 // Several lawsuits in California were filed against Ovation Fertility, a large network of fertility clinics, were filed by former patients whose embryos were destroyed due to a reported critical error at the company’s...
Apr 18 2024 // California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone...