All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2018 // Injured workers who were not weaned off of opioids had much higher drug costs and higher treatment transaction volumes, according to a report released on Friday by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
Mar 9 2018 // A Southern California foundry has been fined more than $280,000 for workplace safety violations following an accident that resulted in the amputation of an employee’s legs.Cal/OSHA said this week that the fine...
Mar 9 2018 // PG&E Corp. CEO Geisha Williams wants to make sure you understand how much she dislikes California’s law on fire liability.The San Francisco-based utility owner could end up on the hook for billions of dollars...
Mar 8 2018 // The race is on for the California insurance commissioner posts as we are nearly three months from the primary, but you wouldn’t know it by speaking to people in the insurance industry.Most insurance groups and...
Mar 8 2018 // Two men who say they were sexually abused by a leader at Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in San Diego, Calif. in the 1990s have settled their lawsuits against the church’s governing body. The San Diego...
Mar 7 2018 // A nearly-century-old Southern California hospital that sits on an active earthquake fault will close because it can’t meet state earthquake safety requirements, officials said this week.Community Medical Center Long...
Mar 7 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued a cease and desist order against Access Insurance Co., which requires it to immediately stop transacting, soliciting, negotiating, or administering and writing any...
Mar 7 2018 // Lockton has named Matt Cundith a producer in Lockton’s Los Angeles, Calif. office. He will work with clients throughout California and the U.S. Cundith comes to Lockton from Aon, where he consulted contractors,...
Mar 6 2018 // Cypress, Calif.-based Bowermaster and Associates Insurance Agency Inc. has named Adam Bowermaster president. Bowermaster has more than 20 years of experience. Mike Bowermaster, the firm’s previous president, will...
Mar 6 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a new private flood insurance productThe residential product, which Jones announced the approval of on Tuesday, is provided by American National Property and...
Mar 5 2018 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Robert Gilbert of Markel West Insurance Services as the new chair of the SLA Board of Directors.Gilbert’s election was finalized after the SLA...
Mar 5 2018 // California state agencies spent nearly $1.8 billion fighting fierce wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses last year, legislative budget experts reported Thursday.The federal...
Mar 5 2018 // The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor’s heart surgery shortly before he died.The suit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical...
Mar 5 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court in late February declined to hear Mercury Insurance Co.’s appeal to overturn a February 2017 California Court of Appeal ruling that held Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ 2013 order...
Mar 5 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved the first surety bond program for the cannabis industry in the California.Continental Heritage Insurance Co. is the first insurer in the state to be approved to...
Mar 2 2018 // California stands in “complete opposition” to a Trump administration plan to scrap a policy slashing climate-changing emissions from power plants, its top air official said Wednesday at a U.S. hearing in a...
Mar 1 2018 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that seeks to beef up dam inspections following a near disaster that caused the evacuation of almost 200,000 people living downstream from the tallest one in the United...
Mar 1 2018 // California fire chiefs said that reinforcements were too slow to arrive in last year’s ferocious firestorms and asked lawmakers for $100 million to call in extra firefighters when weather conditions are ripe for a...
Feb 28 2018 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Josh Pasek assistant vice president in the property/casualty practice of the firm’s Southern California office. Pasek will be responsible for developing strategic risk management...
Feb 28 2018 // The number of qualified medical evaluators resolve disputes over California workers’ compensation claim issues fell 20 percent between January 2012 and September 2017, according to a new California Workers’...