All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 23 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 that took place in early...
May 23 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their workers’ compensation insurer out of millions of dollars.Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Canada Flintridge,...
May 23 2016 // California regulators said earlier this month they will re-examine a settlement that made consumers responsible for covering some $3.3 billion in costs for closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant.The Public Utilities...
May 20 2016 // Numerous lapses in safety measures, judgment and planning by Plains All American Pipeline LP led to and worsened a major oil spill last year that fouled miles of shoreline and ocean near Santa Barbara, Calif., the U.S....
May 19 2016 // Elements of California’s workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012 may have contributed to the state’s 2013 and 2014 decreases in medical payments per workers’ comp claim, according to a study...