All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2017 // California water officials say they have awarded a contract to repair Oroville Dam’s two damaged spillways to a Nebraska construction company.The Department of Water Resources announced that Kiewit Corp. of Omaha was...
Apr 18 2017 // Apple Inc. will soon take its self-driving car software platform to public streets for the first time, a major step that gets the world’s largest technology company into a crowded race to reshape transportation.The...
Apr 18 2017 // A Los Angeles-area company is voluntarily recalling one of its vegetarian snacks because it may contain trace amounts of unlisted peanuts. The firm, Beyond Meat, said in a release that peanuts were detected in some of its...
Apr 18 2017 // All Risks, Ltd. has introduced a new Specialty Property Earthquake Program with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated carrier.The Specialty Property Earthquake Program provides difference in conditions insurance,...
Apr 17 2017 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has completed its report on statewide workers’ comp insurer loss and premium experience through Dec. 31, 2016. The major findings of the WCIRB...
Apr 17 2017 // A Southern California couple that had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism, has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report.Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31,...
Apr 17 2017 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s 2016 annual report shows a net income of $192 million in 2016.Other important highlights from the newly released report include: 128,000 policies written in...
Apr 17 2017 // The California Department of Insurance has launched an online language locator tool to enable consumers to find insurance agents and brokers in their area who speak their language.The tool gives access to information on...
Apr 17 2017 // More than half of all claims from workers living in California’s Sierras involve only four industries, according to a report from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.The CWCI’s California...
Apr 17 2017 // The owners of a cleaning company serving luxury hotels in Southern California and Nevada have pleaded guilty in connection with a nearly $7 million insurance and tax scam.Hyok “Steven” Kwon and his wife, Woo...
Apr 17 2017 // The insurer and public members of the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau Governing Committee have voted to authorize the Governing Committee to submit a lower mid-year pure premium rate filing to the California...
Apr 13 2017 // A former resident of a children’s group home in Northern California has been awarded nearly $4.5 million after jurors found he was severely neglected by the home’s caregivers while living at the facility.The...
Apr 13 2017 // San Diego, Ca.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Julie Brennan as senior account manager within the agency’s construction practice. Brennan will serve as the main point-of-contact at the agency for both...
Apr 12 2017 // Farmers in a vast region of California will receive their fully contracted amount of irrigation water this year for the first time in more than a decade.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced the allocation this week...
Apr 12 2017 // Kimberly-Clark and its spinoff medical technology firm Halyard Health have been hit with $454 million in compensatory and punitive damages, after a federal jury found the companies misled California buyers about the...
Apr 12 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has combined its portfolio of specialty insurance practices under one banner forming the Alliant specialty group.The group will be led by Peter Arkley, who is with the...
Apr 11 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Tuesday submitted a July 1 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Department of Insurance proposing advisory pure premium rates that average $2.02 per $100 of...
Apr 11 2017 // More than half of all claims from workers living in California’s Sierras involve only four industries, according to a report out today from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.The CWCI’s...
Apr 11 2017 // The owners of a cleaning company serving luxury hotels in Southern California and Nevada have pleaded guilty in connection with a nearly $7 million insurance and tax scam.The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Hyok...
Apr 10 2017 // RIC Insurance General Agency has named Patty Herron a business development manager to expand its commercial and personal lines marketing efforts. Herron will work primarily with retail insurance agents in California in...