All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 21 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 21 2018 // California public self-insured workers’ compensation claims from fiscal year 2016-2017 rose less than 0.4 percent compared to the corresponding data from the prior year despite a 2.9 percent Increase in covered...
Jun 20 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Zenefits has named Issac Vaughn to its executive team as senior vice president of business operations. He reports to Jay Fulcher, chairman and CEO. Vaughn will work with the Zenefits’...
Jun 20 2018 // The Appellate Court of Illinois has issued a decision supporting California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and the California Insurance Guarantee Association’s position that Lumbermens California workers’...
Jun 19 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Brian Chu in Southern California as a vice president. Chu will be based in EPIC’s Downtown Los Angeles office, reporting to Jim Gillette, president of EPIC’s...
Jun 19 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a technical specialist to observe Tesla Inc.’s examination of a Model S that caught fire in California on Friday, the agency said in a statement.The action is not a...
Jun 18 2018 // Risk Strategies has acquired San Rafael, Calif.-based Craford Benefit Consultants. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Craford is an employee consulting and benefits brokerage firm that also has offices in Portland, Ore....
Jun 18 2018 // Sacramento, Calif.-based Warren G. Bender Co. has named Maggie Bender-Johnson president. Bender-Johnson, formerly vice president of operations, has been a part of Warren G. Bender since 2005. Her father, Stephen Bender,...
Jun 18 2018 // Starbucks Corp. and other coffee retailers are looking to get a reprieve in a legal battle over whether they need to post warnings in California that a cup of java contains chemicals known to cause cancer.The California...
Jun 18 2018 // FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs.Those employers and many others are...
Jun 18 2018 // Brokers who specialize in the construction industry love their clients and are very committed to keeping up with their needs. Ask them, “So what’s new?” and the conversations inevitably veer off in...
Jun 18 2018 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is reporting a significant reduction in the number of opioid prescriptions for injured workers through a program launched four years ago.State Fund’s...
Jun 18 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved the first Cannabis Business Owners Policy in the State of California.The American Association of Insurance Services designed the new CannaBOP program for cannabis...
Jun 18 2018 // A new legislative framework for autonomous vehicle testing and deployment in California created this year is expected to lead to a strong wave of development of this technology in the state.In February 2018, the Office of...
Jun 15 2018 // Lower workers’ compensation rates in California will bring down written premium once again this year, according to a forecast from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.That revelation is expected...
Jun 15 2018 // Four bills sponsored by the California Department of Insurance that the department believes will strengthen consumer protections for wildfire survivors have passed the Senate Insurance Committee with unanimous, bipartisan...
Jun 15 2018 // Tapioca Express, a South El Monte, Calif.-based milk tea franchise, and two of its franchisees violated federal law by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment and forcing some to quit because of the abuse, the...
Jun 13 2018 // Dr. Gary Royce Wisner, 61, of Lodi, Calif., is scheduled for arraignment today at the San Joaquin County Superior Court on 11 felony counts of insurance fraud for allegedly bilking insurers out of more than $700,000 by...
Jun 13 2018 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers Insurance has been named Rob Howard chief claims officer Howard was head of claims shared services. He joined Farmers in 1987 as a claims representative in St. Louis, Mo., relocating to...
Jun 13 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Michael McNulty managing principal and wine and beverage practice leader. McNulty will be based in San Francisco, Calif., and report to Curt Perata, EPIC’s Pacific...