All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2017 // Bruce Carnegie-Brown will become the chairman of Lloyd’s following a meeting of the Council of Lloyd’s where his appointment as successor to John Nelson was approved unanimously. His appointment also was...
Mar 6 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system.The providers...
Mar 6 2017 // Workers’ compensation liability is one of the main commercial lines in the U.S. property/casualty market. In order to manage this loss exposure, employers have two choices: they can either buy market insurance or...
Mar 6 2017 // California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a report issued in late February shows.The California Workers’ Compensation Institute...
Mar 6 2017 // Closing times at bars in California could go later if proposed legislation there gets passed. The bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco, would let municipalities set their own...
Mar 3 2017 // A California billionaire has donated $5 million for flood relief efforts in San Jose.Kieu Hoang is a one-time refugee from Vietnam who built a fortune in medical products. He presented a check to city officials this week....
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years.In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims executive...
Mar 2 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired LISSC in Santa Ana, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LISSC’s team will join Hub California. Angelo Maroutsos and Dennis Monahan, co-owners, and David Trevino, vice...
Mar 2 2017 // Crews worked this week to clean up dirt and debris from the base of Oroville Dam and biologists rush to save stranded fish after state officials shut off the flow of water from a damaged spillway at the Northern California...
Mar 2 2017 // The University of California said it investigated 113 cases of sexual misconduct involving staff and faculty at its 10 campuses over a recent three-year period, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents released...
Mar 1 2017 // A tour bus crossed into oncoming traffic and hit two cars head-on, killing one woman and injuring 26 others in the Southern California high desert, according to the California Highway Patrol.It’s unclear why the tour...
Mar 1 2017 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Edward Huang assistant vice president of employee benefits. Huang an enterprise sales background ranging from financial services to software as a...
Feb 28 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has adopted its final rules of practice and procedure implementing Senate Bill 1160, which passed last year.The Office of Administrative Law has filed the WCAB’s new...
Feb 27 2017 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Stephen Watson a junior account executive.Watson’s area of focus will be on professional liability. Watson previously was employed as assistant manager of...
Feb 27 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for a boost in spending on water and transportation infrastructure as the waterlogged state grapples with an emergency dam repair, frantic levee fixes and catastrophic road damage...
Feb 23 2017 // A 24-year-old woman has been arrested in connection to 28 fires set throughout the city of Fullerton, Calif., since September. The Orange County Register reports that the woman was arrested after investigators found her...
Feb 23 2017 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC is expanding its West Coast operations with the appointment of Keith Newell as its managing director. Newell will be primarily based in the firm’s Woodland Hills, Calif. office....
Feb 23 2017 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Tom Ciardello, senior executive vice president of Worldwide Facilities LLC, as the chair of the SLA board of directors.Ciardello’s election was...
Feb 22 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Employer Resource Group Financial & Insurance Services Inc. in Torrance, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Dickins, ERG founder and CEO, will join Hub...
Feb 21 2017 // Infogain has named James Patterson as Guidewire head.Patterson is based in San Diego, Calif. and reports to Girish Kannalli, vice president and general manager of the insurance and healthcare business unit. Patterson is...