All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2019 // A California dam could fail during an extreme storm and send water flooding into Mojave Desert communities that are home to about 300,000 people, authorities said.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it has...
Nov 5 2019 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has added two new members, JPL Insurance Services of San Diego, and Levoy & Associates Insurance Agency Inc. of Roseville. Both are in California. JPL Insurance Services serves...
Nov 5 2019 // A small earthquake has rattled a Northern California wine region where a huge wildfire was burning, the United States Geological Survey confirmed.The USGS reported the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 struck at...
Nov 4 2019 // Airbnb’s CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California.In a series of tweets, Brian Chesky said...
Nov 4 2019 // Insurance agent Stephen Mark Gomez, 64, of Lake View Terrace, Calif., was arraigned last month on eight felony counts of grand theft and embezzlement after allegedly collecting over $148,000 in insurance premium payments...
Nov 1 2019 // A wildfire that erupted overnight near Los Angeles has forced 7,500 people to flee as the tail end of a powerful windstorm takes its a final swing at Southern California.The blaze in Ventura County ripped through more than...
Nov 1 2019 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Co. has named Ben Rozema director of programs.Rozema Responsible for the P&L of all program business as well as the relationships with all program partners and direct oversight of...
Nov 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, insurance, investments and...
Nov 1 2019 // Some insurers may be facing sizable risks stemming from the latest round of California wildfires now raging, but Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg insists his company isn’t one of them.“We do have a quota...
Oct 31 2019 // While the number of burned acres in 2019 is still well below the number reported last year through October, experts predict the greatest fire potential will occur from now through December as the Santa Ana winds pick up,...
Oct 31 2019 // Selling insurance to cannabis dispensaries may the business in which to be in the very near future.A new report claims that cannabis retailing could become one of the “most profitable specialty store categories...
Oct 31 2019 // Back in June 2018, AAIS filed its first CannaBOP policy to provide admitted markets a BOP that would cover the unique risks associated with cannabis businesses. While the admitted market has yet to fully embrace the...
Oct 31 2019 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.As of October 29, there were at least 18 fires burning in California, ranging in size from a few acres to more than 74,000 acres as in the case of the Kincade Fire in...
Oct 31 2019 // Several dozen activist groups, businesses and elected representatives released a letter on Thursday to the CEOs of Liberty Mutual, AIG and Farmers calling on the three biggest fire insurers in California to stop fueling...
Oct 31 2019 // Some of the country’s largest ridesharing companies proposed a California law on Tuesday that would let them continue to treat drivers as independent contractors while also guaranteeing them a minimum wage and money...
Oct 30 2019 // San Diego-based Cavignac & Associates has named Diana Dix human resources risk advisor. Dix has nearly 20 years of experience in the human resources field. She was previously human resources business partner at ADP...
Oct 30 2019 // A catastrophe modeler released figures on Wednesday showing how costly ongoing California blazes could potentially be as blustery winds make for increasingly dangerous fire risk up and down the state.Damages from the fires...
Oct 29 2019 // A new study shows that following the adoption of recent changes to streamline the California workers’ compensation medical review and approval process, 94.1% of medical services performed or requested for California...
Oct 29 2019 // Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group has named Andrew Doll senior vice president and chief operating officer.He will continue to manage the insurance operations teams, as well as all other corporate departments....
Oct 29 2019 // XPT Group LLC has acquired Sierra Specialty in Fresno, Calif. Sierra Specialty will continue to operate under its brand name. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sierra Specialty was founded in 2005 by Kathy Schroeder...