All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved rate reductions for two State Farm inland marine policies that he said will bring millions of dollars in premium savings for tens of thousands of boat owners and...
May 9 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended four more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ compensation...
May 8 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has created an online tool to help home inspection specialists evaluate a house’s vulnerability to earthquake damage. The online tool, QuakeGrade, uses information entered by an...
May 8 2017 // Slice Insurance Technologies, an insurtech company offering on-demand, short-term insurance coverage, is now selling its commercial lines insurance product for homesharing hosts in California.The California Department of...
May 8 2017 // The victims of a balcony collapse in Berkeley, Calif., that killed six college students have reached a settlement with some of the companies they sued in 2015.The settlements are confidential, said lawyers for the families...
May 8 2017 // Kimberly-Clark Corp. sued its spinoff Halyard Health Inc. claiming it wrongfully refused to pick up the entire tab for a $454 million verdict against the companies over the safety of some of their surgical gowns.The...
May 8 2017 // The Eagles are suing the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming it’s capitalizing off the band’s hit song of the same name.The band filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit [on May 1]...
May 8 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.For nearly the past decade, the growing number of earthquakes in Oklahoma has gained widespread attention. As described in the CoreLogic® Insights Blog Earthquake Risk:...
May 4 2017 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest U.S. home and auto insurer, plans to shut 11 U.S. facilities, displacing about 4,200 workers, after a $7 billion annual underwriting loss last year on auto...
May 4 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau testified at a California Department of Insurance public hearing today regarding the bureau’s July 1 pure premium rate filing, which was submitted to the CDI on...
May 4 2017 // Authorities say a fire that blazed through miles of California coast last summer was sparked by a man trying to douse a burning log.The Santa Barbara County Fire Department said this week that the Sherpa Fire last June was...
May 3 2017 // A California bill that could affect auto repair costs is making its way through state Legislature, and one group that’s happy about that is the Association of California Insurance Companies.ACIC is one of several...
May 3 2017 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has concluded that a 2015 explosion at a Torrance, Calif., refinery then owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. could have been prevented, the agency concluded in a report issued on Wednesday.“This...
May 3 2017 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has named Susanne M. Waite vice president and senior broker in its San Francisco, Calif. office. Waite has more than 30 years of experience in insurance, with 14 years in wholesale. Waite...
May 3 2017 // QBE North America has named Marcia Blanco as senior vice president an Western region specialty underwriting engagement leader. She is based in San Francisco, Calif. Blanco will report to Jeff Grange, president of specialty...
May 2 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Buena Park, Calif.-based City Insurance Services its affiliates, Silver City Insurance Services Inc. and MOA Financial Services.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian...
May 1 2017 // Health insurers seeking regulatory approval for 2018 individual insurance plans can file two sets of premium rates as a way to deal with market uncertainty created by Republicans’ promise to repeal and replace...
May 1 2017 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted the second interim status report on its efforts to promulgate regulations for an evidence-based workers’ compensation drug formulary.The...
May 1 2017 // Apple Inc. urged California to toughen up its proposed policy on testing self-driving cars, a move that would result in more public data that could help Apple catch up to rivals in the self-driving space by giving it a...
May 1 2017 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Networked Insurance Agents, a California-based insurance aggregator specializing in the standard lines insurance segment. Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group is an independent wholesale...