All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has completed its report on statewide workers’ comp insurer loss and premium experience through June 30.The major findings of the report include: California...
Sep 15 2017 // Three female former employees of Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the tech company of discriminating against women in pay and promotions.The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in...
Sep 14 2017 // The volume of workers’ compensation independent medical reviews in California appears to be tapering off, a new study shows.The IMR process was established by California lawmakers to resolve medical disputes. A study...
Sep 14 2017 // The Berkeley City Council this week gave police permission to use pepper spray to repel demonstrators attacking officers and others during violent protests of the kind that have repeatedly hit the city this year.The 6-3...
Sep 13 2017 // The largest gas storage facility in the West halted using a third of the wells pumping methane underground at high pressure just weeks after it resumed operations following a blowout that crippled it for nearly two...
Sep 13 2017 // CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire California-based workers’ compensation carrier Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. from Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC...
Sep 12 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Tuesday issued a decision regarding the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Jan. 1, 2018 regulatory filing, which was submitted to the California...
Sep 12 2017 // Highways that run through the pricey real estate of the Silicon Valley and the San Francisco area are California’s most dangerous for coyotes, deer and other wildlife.A study released by the University of California...
Sep 12 2017 // The record head that baked Northern California over the Labor Day weekend left wine grapes shriveling on the vines, reducing many of them to raisins before the normal harvest and turning what was looking to be a promising...
Sep 8 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Friday submitted an amended Jan. 1, 2018 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance.The amended filing was based on the WCIRB’s...
Sep 8 2017 // The California Legislature backed a measure this week that could require Wells Fargo to go to court with consumers who say they were harmed by the bank’s fake account scandal.The legislation would prohibit the San...
Sep 7 2017 // Specialty Program Group LLC has acquired the assets of Burbank, Calif.-based wholesaler Monarch E&S Insurance Services.Monarch E&S is a full-service MGA and wholesale brokerage established in 1986. The firm...
Sep 7 2017 // Bad design and construction of the tallest U.S. dam a half-century ago and inadequate state and federal oversight since then led to a disastrous spillway collapse in February, an independent national team of dam safety...
Sep 7 2017 // Charles Taylor plc has agreed to acquire Metro Risk Management LLC, a Southern California-based third-party claims administrator, from Nautilus International Holding Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MRM provides...
Sep 6 2017 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s governing committee on Wednesday voted to amend the WCIRB’s Jan. 1, 2018 pure premium rate filing that has already been submitted to the...
Sep 6 2017 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized the use of federal funds to assist California in fighting the Pier Fire burning in Tulare County.The state submitted a request for a fire management assistance for the...
Sep 5 2017 // LP Insurance Services Inc. has named John Bolce regional manager overseeing the sales team, productivity, development and growth of the Phoenix, Ariz. location as well as Sacramento, Calif.He is a member of the LP...
Sep 4 2017 // The insurance community has at least two reasons to be interested in a new report on middle market companies, particularly those who are doing business in California.According to a report from American Express and Dun...
Sep 4 2017 // Written premiums from workers’ compensation insurers in California for the year are expected to be flat at $18.1 billion compared with 2016 thanks largely to rate decreases, according to analysts with the...
Sep 1 2017 // The son of late jazz legend Thelonious Monk is suing a California brewery, alleging it is using his father’s image on bottles and packaging of a Belgian-style ale and other merchandise without permission.The lawsuit...