All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 8 2017 // A judge has cleared the way for dozens of former student’s in California’s Central Valley to take their school district to trial over fears that a job-training program exposed them to cancer.Attorney Allen...
Feb 8 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Lewis & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. in Visalia, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. James Smallwood, Kevin Veitia and their associates will continue to operate...
Feb 8 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Norman Allen corporate executive protection practice leader. Norman will be responsible for providing vision and focus for the practice, which includes...
Feb 7 2017 // California Department of Insurance detectives and investigators with the Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force today arrested seven suspects, charged an additional 22 who are self-surrendering, and are still seeking 11 more...
Feb 7 2017 // A Riverside County, Calif. transgender Army veteran has settled a lawsuit against a Rancho Cucamonga barbershop that refused to cut women’s hair.The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. The Press-Enterprise...
Feb 7 2017 // RIC Insurance General Agency has named Travis Campbell as a senior broker to expand its excess and surplus division.Campbell will be working primarily with retail insurance agents in the California counties of Orange, San...
Feb 6 2017 // What the final two years of California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will entail is among the topics to be discussed during a conference in Southern California in March.The WIAA Education and Research Foundation will...
Feb 6 2017 // A jury has awarded $1.25 million to a former San Diego, Calif., high schooler who was denied a bathroom break and forced to urinate in a bucket.The girl, then 14, used the bucket in a Patrick Henry High School supply room...
Feb 6 2017 // California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall on Jan. 22 of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPAs and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break off...
Feb 6 2017 // Overall, 2016 ended on a positive note for the U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance industry, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).Nationally, nearly $26 billion in surplus lines insurance...
Feb 3 2017 // The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced a major auto insurance fraud ring takedown, which was operating in San Diego County.Nine defendants were...
Feb 3 2017 // Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup driver intervening, according to data made public by California transportation regulators.The...
Feb 3 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has acquired Benefit Compass Insurance Services LLC, a specialist in employee benefits brokerage and consulting services in Irvine, Calif. Benefit Compass provides employee benefit...
Feb 2 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Bill Bergstrom to lead the operations and growth initiatives of its golf insurance services program. He will be based in EPIC’s Sacramento, Calif. office and report to...
Feb 2 2017 // Bay Area Rapid Transit has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the agency of violating waste and hazardous-materials laws. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the transit agency agreed to...
Feb 2 2017 // Two California school districts will pay most of a roughly $5 million settlement to a girl who was sexually abused by a former high school teacher. Jeremy Monn is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in 2015...
Feb 2 2017 // Most of us who sit down with our beverages and snacks to watch one of the biggest events in pro sports on Sunday won’t have things like workers’ compensation and cumulative injury on our minds.Just Brady vs....
Feb 1 2017 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has promoted Joanna Rogers and Khanh Le to the position of underwriter. Rogers has been with PPIB for three years learning underwriting and serving as executive...
Feb 1 2017 // A new study on California homowners shows a general awareness of earthquakes and other natural hazards, but that those owners did not necessarily take action to mitigate risks, and many didn’t know whether their home...
Feb 1 2017 // The backyard of a Hollywood Hills, Calif. home has crumbled, sending mud and debris down a hill, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses.Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erick Scott says the slide...