All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 1 2016 // John Antonio Ruiz, 49, of Riverside, Calif., pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts of grand theft after selling $334,972 in bogus surety bonds and stealing the client’s premium.His theft left a major retailer exposed to...
May 31 2016 // The California Senate on Tuesday passed legislation by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, that stops the automatic suspension of driver’s licenses for people who fail to appear in court on minor traffic offenses...
May 31 2016 // An attorney representing mechanics for a school bus company says the company has agreed to pay $11.5 million to settle a California lawsuit claiming they used unsafe buses to transport San Francisco students.The San...
May 31 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones adopted and issued a revised advisory pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $2.30 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance.The change is effective...
May 31 2016 // VALE Insurance Partners has acquired 100 percent of the assets of San Francisco, Calif.-based Onyx Transportation Services LLC, the program administrator for Onyx Insurance Company Inc., a risk retention group specializing...
May 27 2016 // RIC Insurance General Agency Inc. has named Garett Kaneko senior vice president of sales and marketing and Tom Clansen vice president of commercial lines.Both will be based in California. Garett will work out of...
May 27 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Nick Tan surety manager.Tan will be based in EPIC’s San Ramon, Calif. construction services practice and report to Brian Quinn, regional director of property/casualty....
May 27 2016 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Paula Northington assistant vice president of employee benefits in its Orange County, Calif. office. Northington began her career in the financial services industry with Private Ledger...
May 26 2016 // It may not be a climate change summit for the ages like last year’s Paris meeting in which world leaders hashed out a historic agreement to reduce carbon emissions, but it does have two things in common with the 2015...
May 26 2016 // An employee of a Southern California school district has been arrested on charges of workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly racking up $33,000 in treatments and disability payments.Juanita Denise Schmittle, 50, of...
May 26 2016 // California has accused Johnson & Johnson of failing to warn doctors and patients about the severity and frequency of complications associated with its pelvic mesh devices.According to the lawsuit filed by the...
May 26 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Jake Perata an insurance broker/producer for the firm’s Sacramento, Calif.-based golf insurance services practice.Perata is responsible for new business development...
May 25 2016 // Hazardous materials crews are cleaning up as many as 21,000 gallons of oil after a pipeline rupture in Northern California.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Shell Pipeline Co. officials say a response team is...
May 25 2016 // The family of the late baseball star Tony Gwynn, a Hall of Famer who played with the San Diego Padres, has filed a lawsuit in California accusing makers of dipping tobacco of causing his death from cancer by getting him...
May 24 2016 // Leading U.S. insurers have nearly half-a-trillion dollars invested the fossil fuel energy and the electric and gas utility sectors, according to a report out today that urges state insurance regulators and board members of...
May 24 2016 // The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber drivers, saying it “gives organized labor an opportunity to shape the new...
May 23 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Cos. has named Traci Herring a senior field representative in Northern California. Herring is responsible for identifying prospects for appointments while providing information about...
May 23 2016 // Elizabeth Louise Brown, 48, of Canyon Country, Calif., a former claims adjuster with Explorer Insurance, pleaded guilty to two counts of insurance fraud with a white collar crime enhancement penalty for crafting an...
May 23 2016 // Leavitt Group in Utah has named Rachael Woolsey vice president of personal lines.Leavitt Group also named Kelly Pareti director of voluntary benefits enrollment. Pareti will work with employee benefits agencies to provide...
May 23 2016 // It turns out characters like Conan the Barbarian, the cyborg from Terminator and Dutch the protagonist in the original “Predator” movie, know a thing or two about risk.Definitely the actor who portrayed them...