All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2016 // Authorities say a construction worker has been crushed to death at a landfill in Southern California.Capt. Daryll Milliot with the Orange County Fire Authority says the man in his mid-to-late 30s was killed at Prima...
Dec 9 2016 // A Stanford University graduate student claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school failed to adequately investigate and discipline a former student who was a “known sexual predator” while attending the college...
Dec 9 2016 // California Senate Bill 863 may have contributed to decreases in medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in 2013 and 2014, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.The WCRI study...
Dec 8 2016 // In the way of a magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the Northern California coast at 6:45 a.m., a hundred miles west of Eureka, and then a few hours later a magnitude 5.0 in the same general area, the California Earthquake...
Dec 8 2016 // California Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has denied State Farm’s emergency request to stay Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’s order directing State Farm to reduce homeowner and renter rates by 7...
Dec 8 2016 // Hub International of California has added Antonio Casabat as a senior vice president for the employee benefits consultancy, responsible for client advocacy and consulting on behalf of clients located throughout the United...
Dec 7 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones hailed the results from the first national survey of the insurance industry around supplier and governing board diversity issued today.Insurance commissioners from six states...
Dec 7 2016 // Cyence, a San Mateo, Calif., based company that works to empower the insurance industry to model the economic impact of cyber risk, has named John Merchant as director of business development.He will be working with...
Dec 6 2016 // Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. has named Linda K. Brobeck a senior consulting actuary in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. office. Brobeck has been in the property/casualty insurance industry since 1986 and has...
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...
Dec 5 2016 // A California state senator introduced a bill on Monday that would mandate reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections and deaths and require doctors to record the infections on death certificates when they are a cause of...
Dec 5 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. will acquire Neovia Integrated Insurance Services in Santa Barbara, Calif. Woodruff-Sawyer will leverage the proprietary and client-focused employee benefits solutions for which Neovia is...
Dec 5 2016 // CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, has named Jeff Huebner chief risk officer.Huebner will be responsible for managing all aspects of enterprise risk for the company, including traditional risk management, reinsurance,...
Dec 5 2016 // The California Supreme Court says companies can be held liable for exposing members of a worker’s household to asbestos.The court ruled unanimously that companies have a responsibility to prevent such exposure when...
Dec 5 2016 // California and Texas rank first and second for the total number of residential properties at an extreme risk for wildfire damage, according to data provider CoreLogic.The reasons for that include: both states have large...
Dec 5 2016 // A California Department of Industrial Relations progress report shows continuing improvement of the state’s Independent Medical Review process.IMR is the medical dispute resolution process that uses medical expertise...
Dec 5 2016 // A California law that provided driver’s licenses to those who could not submit proof of legal presence in the U.S. may have led to a decrease in the number of uninsured motorists in the state, according to a...
Dec 5 2016 // Two people from California were arrested on a scheme allegedly involving the reported theft of an expensive classic car.Constantine Petros, 54, of Petaluma, was arrested on Oct. 19 in Sonoma County. Also arrested was...
Dec 2 2016 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board issued a notice of public hearing next month regarding a proposed addition and amendments to its lien filing rules.The primary purpose of this rulemaking is to...
Dec 2 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones issued new Auto Collision Repair Labor Rate Survey Regulations that he said will increase consumer protections when a damaged vehicle is repaired.The California Department of...