All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 5 2017 // A two-year investigation has netted 22 suspects in an auto fraud ring in California that cost insurers hundreds of thousands of dollars.Brothers Angel Topete, 36, and Joshua Topete, 34, both of San Martin, Calif., were...
Dec 5 2017 // Western Security Surplus has named Sherif Azer a senior broker in its Los Angeles, Calif. office. Azer’s focus will be commercial lines, property and liability with the placement of excess and surplus brokerage, and...
Dec 5 2017 // Insurer MAPFRE USA, which now writes in 19 states, is narrowing its focus by concentrating on 11 key states, exiting five states including selling its New York subsidiary, and selling its life insurance unit.MAPFRE USA has...
Dec 4 2017 // California’s 53 U.S. House members are requesting $4.4 billion in federal aid to help the state recover from its deadliest wildfires ever.That’s down sharply from the $7.4 billion originally sought by Gov....
Dec 4 2017 // Founders Professional has hired Matt DeCew and Jeff Steen and is launching a new San Diego, Calif. office.This is the firm’s fifth location. DeCew and Steen will work with retail insurance agencies throughout the...
Dec 4 2017 // California regulators are embracing a General Motors recommendation that would help makers of self-driving cars avoid paying for accidents and other trouble, raising concerns that the proposal will put an unfair burden on...
Dec 4 2017 // Federal safety investigators say a sleep-deprived driver and a bus company with a poor safety record were causes of an August 2016 crash in California’s Central Valley that killed four passengers and injured 20...
Dec 4 2017 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Brendan Williams its Southern California practice leader.Williams will be assuming leadership of the Southern California region in early 2018 upon the retirement of Ron Packouz, founder...
Dec 4 2017 // Jaime Rosario Del Real, 61, and son Israel Del Real, 37, have both pleaded guilty to four felony counts for their role in a $400,000 insurance fraud scheme denying workers’ compensation insurance and medical care for...
Dec 4 2017 // No U.S. reinsurance companies in Fitch Rating’s rated universe are expected to be downgraded as a result of losses from the California wildfires alone, but for a number of companies the impact of wildfire losses adds...
Dec 1 2017 // A woman who was hit by a car while protesting against President Donald Trump on a San Diego freeway is suing the driver, the city, the state and a nearby university.The San Diego Union-Tribune reported 19-year-old Maria...
Dec 1 2017 // California regulators rejected a request by a San Diego utility to bill customers for a decade-old wildfire, even as they made clear their decision shouldn’t necessarily be seen as a precedent for last month’s...
Nov 30 2017 // Chubb Limited reported a preliminary loss estimate for the fourth quarter from natural catastrophes, including the California wildfires, of approximately $320 million pre-tax, or $249 million after tax.Chubb said its...
Nov 30 2017 // A former partner at a major law firm in Washington pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he tried to sell copies of sealed whistleblower lawsuits against corporations that he obtained while working at the U.S....
Nov 28 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced at the 6th Annual Insurance Diversity Summit this week that California diverse businesses supplied $1.6 billion in goods and services to insurance companies last...
Nov 27 2017 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Brendan Williams its Southern California practice leader.Williams will be assuming leadership of the Southern California region in early 2018 upon the retirement of Ron Packouz, founder...
Nov 22 2017 // California’s insurance commissioner says homeowners who lost their homes in last month’s wildfires in Northern California have up to 24 months to collect insurance payments.Dave Jones said this week some...
Nov 22 2017 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended nine more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Nov 21 2017 // Sedgwick LLP, a San Francisco, Calif.-based law firm that represented numerous insurance clients, is closing.The news of the closure came in the form of a letter sent out to employees this week making it known that...
Nov 21 2017 // California regulators are embracing a General Motors recommendation that would help makers of self-driving cars avoid paying for accidents and other trouble, raising concerns that the proposal will put an unfair burden on...