All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2016 // A bill to require hosting platforms to disclose to the homeowner or renter host what insurance coverage they are providing to protect the host’s property is making its way through California Legislature.Senate...
May 6 2016 // A newspaper reports that at least three patients died last year at a Southern California hospital in a bacterial outbreak suspected to have been caused by tainted medical scopes.Officials at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena...
May 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight.A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook’s request to...
May 5 2016 // Most people aren’t prepared for the big one.If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference, which runs through...
May 5 2016 // Worldwide Facilities LLC has agreed to acquire San Diego, Calif.-based Sloan Mason Insurance Services.Paul Mason, founder and president, and his team will join Worldwide Facilities. Mason will assume a leadership position...
May 5 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s denial of responsibility for sexual assaults by drivers failed to derail a lawsuit brought by two women who say they were attacked last year.A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday...
May 4 2016 // Roamnet Insurance Marketing in Ontario, Calif. has named Rusty Manzo director of marketing. He reports directly to Anthony Amorelli, president. Manzo will be responsible for new business development and will bring his...
May 4 2016 // Valerie Ann Verdugo, 38, of Bakersfield, Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on felony insurance fraud charges for obtaining insurance coverage without paying the carrier on those policies for more than a...
May 4 2016 // Santa Monica, CA, May 4, 2016 – Ace Business Brokers announces a Southern California preferred personal lines agency for sale: $4 million in commissions 16,500+ client base Retention rates in 90’s Adjusted Net...
May 3 2016 // Tyler Nicholson has joined Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based Greenpath Insurance Co. as the director of marketing. Nicholson has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience. He was previously with...
May 3 2016 // Marsh has named David Fuhrman to lead its West zone effective immediately.He will be based in Marsh’s Los Angeles, Calif. office, and will report to Rob Bentley, president of Marsh’s U.S. and Canada division....
May 3 2016 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC has hired Rammy Streit and Robert Streit in its California offices.The two will work out of the Woodland Hills and Orange County, Calif. offices and report to Kevin Maloy, executive...
May 3 2016 // Mobile telematics company Driveway Software Inc. in California’s Silicon Valley has named Mike Slattery executive vice president of product and operations. Slattery has a background in developing and launching UBI...
May 2 2016 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. named Marc E. Schmittlein president and chief executive officer.Schmittlein will replace President and CEO Donald A. Smith, Jr., who previously announced his plans to...
May 2 2016 // Alliant, Andre-RombergAlliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz,...
May 2 2016 // A big question looming is whether the federal government or state governments will play the primary role in setting standards for self-driving cars.Historically, the federal National Highway and Transportation Safety...
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation market is healthy and robust. It’s both competitive and profitable.That’s good news for business owners, the insurance industry and injured workers. Beneath the positive news,...
Apr 28 2016 // David McNeil, a principal in the EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants’ Inland Empire division, has been appointed to the advisory board of the California Association of Mutual Water Companies Joint Powers Risk and...
Apr 28 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their worker’s compensation insurer out of millions of dollars.Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Cañada Flintridge,...
Apr 27 2016 // San Diego, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services has acquired Clay Insurance Brokerage Co. in Rancho Santa Margarita. Terms of the deal weren’t released. The acquisition is effective May 1. Robert...