All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 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...
Nov 20 2017 // Bickmore has added William Portello to its Sacramento, Calif. office.He will serve as the director of litigation management and will oversee the litigation management team and assist pool members throughout California with...
Nov 20 2017 // A California school district has settled a lawsuit from the family of a 9-year-old boy who was killed by a vehicle while walking to school in fog in 2015.The Fresno Bee reported the Parlier Unified School District will pay...
Nov 20 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...
Nov 20 2017 // AmWINS, Willis Towers WatsonSpecialty insurance broker AmWINS Group reported that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of 15 insurance programs from Willis Towers Watson. Terms were not disclosed. The...
Nov 20 2017 // Investor funded litigation is not new, but its use is expanding, according to experts in the field.Panelists at the 2017 Risk Management Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., addressed the growing trend of investor funded litigation,...
Nov 20 2017 // Northern California and specifically Sonoma and Napa Counties have experienced the worst wildfires in the history of California. Most of these fires began around Oct. 8, 2017, during night with extremely high winds, that...
Nov 20 2017 // Action star Chuck Norris took on medical device manufacturers in a lawsuit filed in California alleging a chemical used in MRI imaging scans poisoned his wife.Gadolinium that doctors injected into Gena Norris to improve...
Nov 20 2017 // Now that this October’s wine country fires have been contained, the ravaged San Francisco Bay area countryside can begin the rebuilding process. The effects of the wildfires, however, will be further reaching than...
Nov 20 2017 // The deadliest of last month’s wildfires in California’s wine country may have been started by electrical equipment not owned or installed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the utility said in a court filing...
Nov 20 2017 // The California insurance commissioner has approved the first filing by an admitted commercial insurance company to sell cannabis business insurance.Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in early November announced the approved...
Nov 20 2017 // Hani Abujudeh, 55, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., the reputed leader of an auto insurance fraud scheme, was sentenced to six years in state prison.Abujudeh was sentenced earlier this month for his involvement with a scheme...
Nov 17 2017 // Fresno, Calif.-based United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has named Maggie De La Torre a marketing team assistant. De La Torre holds a will provide support to the United Valley marketing team and will market high net...
Nov 17 2017 // A California jury on Thursday ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit by a woman who said she developed the cancer mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos in the company’s talc-based products...
Nov 16 2017 // Loss estimates for the October California wildfire siege could reach up to $10.5 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide.Boston, Mass.-based AIR on Thursday updated its loss estimates for the recent...
Nov 16 2017 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has released the 2016 occupational injury and illness data on employer-reported injuries that shows nonfatal worker injured remained steady in the state.Estimates provided...
Nov 16 2017 // Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was blamed in three lawsuits filed this week for negligence in the wildfires that killed more than 40 people and destroyed over 8,000 homes in Northern California last month.The lawsuits allege...
Nov 16 2017 // A California-based Indian food company has recalled pre-packaged chicken tikka masala products over possible listeria contamination.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said this...
Nov 16 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued an order requiring a central valley company and its affiliates to stop selling workers’ compensation and liability policies because it is not properly licensed...
Nov 16 2017 // The Grocery Manufacturers Association and dozens of other trade groups are pushing for a federal law that could override state ingredient-disclosure rules and warning labels, including California’s landmark...