All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2019 // Earthquake insurance underwriter SIU Managers is now EQ One. The new name and brand was announced on the Los Angeles firm’s 20-year anniversary. EQ One is a difference in conditions underwriter, providing earthquake...
Mar 6 2019 // Professionals in the cyber arena could find themselves quite busy in the near future with the possibility of California consumers gaining even more power to sue corporations for mishandling personal data under two recently...
Mar 6 2019 // A federal judge is requiring PG&E Corp. to abide by rules governing how the utility operates its power lines in California, seeking to reform what he described as “dismal” management that led to a series of...
Mar 5 2019 // Relation Insurance Services has acquired Villane Ward Insurance Services Inc. in Fresno, Calif. Terms for the deal were not disclosed. Villane Ward is a privately owned and operated employee benefits brokerage that...
Mar 4 2019 // Stockton, Calif.-based M.J. Hall & Company Inc. announced that Patrick Lo, senior vice president and treasurer, retired on March 1. He is succeeded by Art Terner. Terner was previously the firm’s chief...
Mar 4 2019 // Joan Didion’s “Holy Water,” written in 1977, is a paean to the elaborate engineering that supplied her taps in Malibu and filled drinking glasses in Hollywood restaurants. At its heart is a warning:The...
Mar 4 2019 // InterWest Insurance Services has acquired Placer Insurance Agency in Roseville, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Placer specializes in commercial, surety bonds, employee benefits and personal insurance...
Mar 4 2019 // Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, or NSAIDs, have supplanted opioids as the most common therapeutic drug group prescribed to injured workers in California, according to a new California Workers’ Compensation...
Mar 4 2019 // AM Best has revised the implications of the under review status to developing from negative for the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of...
Mar 4 2019 // The California Department of Insurance issued a Cease and Desist Order to NexGen Insurance Services Inc., Riverstone Capital LLC (dba Riverstone Capital Insurance Services LLC) and its owner/operators Travis O. Bugli,...
Mar 4 2019 // Several conspirators involved in a massive workers’ comp kickback scheme were ordered in late February to serve prison sentences and pay millions in financial penalties for their roles in the corrupt payment of...
Mar 1 2019 // A Northern California river flooded 2,000 homes, businesses and other buildings and left two communities virtual islands after days of stormy weather, officials said Wednesday.The towns of Guerneville and Monte Rio were...
Mar 1 2019 // Guidance Charter School, of Palmdale, Calif. will pay $8,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency...
Mar 1 2019 // Investigations by the California Department of Insurance led to the arrests of insurance agents who allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from clients and failed to place insurance coverage for those clients.Maria...
Feb 28 2019 // The city of Simi Valley, Calif., has reached a $21 million settlement with a man wrongly imprisoned for nearly 40 years in the killing of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son.Some of that settlement is being paid by...
Feb 28 2019 // A California town north of San Francisco was accessible only by boat after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks inundated it overnight, authorities said Wednesday.“Guerneville is officially an island,” the...
Feb 28 2019 // Shares of PG&E Corp fell about 3 percent after federal filings showed that the power utility had delayed a safety overhaul of a high-voltage transmission line, a prime suspect behind the deadliest wildfire in...
Feb 27 2019 // The FBI is seeking to identify businesses that may be victims of an alleged nationwide workers’ compensation insurance, health care insurance, and pension plan fraud scheme.The FBI is urging businesses that purchased...
Feb 26 2019 // A stink is being raised over a $120 million court settlement from the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak and it’s not about money, but cow manure.Environmental groups have criticized a plan to put more...
Feb 26 2019 // California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has endorsed a state bill that would expand the state’s new privacy act to allow consumers to sue companies over their handling of personal data, despite months of tech...