All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 18 2016 // Employers cannot deny a worker a place to sit just because they prefer the person stand, and they must consider the employee’s work station, not their overall duties, when determining whether to provide a seat, the...
Apr 18 2016 // A new U.S. government task force will look into the country’s biggest ever accidental release of methane, which occurred over several months in Los Angeles, Calif., hoping to prevent future leaks of the potent...
Apr 15 2016 // Workers’ compensation, geopolitical risks, recalls, disaster response, the captive industry and cyber security were among the topics of sessions held throughout the final day of the annual RIMS conference for risk...
Apr 15 2016 // Five defendants have been arraigned in California for committing over $635,000 in tax and insurance fraud and failing to pay employees prevailing wage on public works contracts, the California Department of Industrial...
Apr 15 2016 // A jury has awarded $704,000 to a former division chief for the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District in California who alleged in a lawsuit he was fired due to his age.The Sun newspaper reported that the...
Apr 14 2016 // InterWest Insurance Services LLC has named Grant Rappleye to its employee benefits broker team in in Sacramento, Calif. He was formerly a men’s assistant golf coach at California State University...
Apr 14 2016 // Juan Ortiz Velazquez, 27, of San Jose, Calif. and owner of Carlos Auto Body, was arrested with seven other suspects and charged with multiple counts of felony insurance fraud on Wednesday for allegedly filing 20 fraudulent...
Apr 14 2016 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Tricia McVeigh a senior account manager. McVeigh will in the trucking, transportation and logistics sector. McVeigh has more than 30 years of...
Apr 13 2016 // Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Chairwoman Ronnie Caplane is retiring from state service at the end of the month, it was announced. Caplane was appointed commissioner in 2003 by Gov. Gray Davis, reappointed in...
Apr 13 2016 // Kannai David Scantlen, 41, of Valley Springs, Calif., a former insurance agent conducting business as Kan I Save Insurance Services, was convicted of insurance fraud and sentenced to 60 days, three years of formal...
Apr 12 2016 // Led Zeppelin founders Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lost their bid to avoid a trial that may rewrite the history of rock n’ roll over song-writing credit for the 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven.”A federal...
Apr 11 2016 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group has named J. Paul McCaffrey Jr. its chief financial officer. McCaffrey has more than 25 years of experience. Most recently he was executive vice president, CFO and treasurer...
Apr 11 2016 // Just as California businesses begin to implement a law requiring equal pay for workers regardless of their gender, already the toughest of its kind in the nation, a state lawmaker is seeking to expand it to protect...
Apr 11 2016 // Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will headline an event next month at a Southern California university to benefit insurance students.Schwarzenegger will be joined by Robert Hartwig, an economist and president...
Apr 8 2016 // Elizabeth Louise Brown, 48, of Canyon Country, a former claims adjuster with Explorer Insurance, was arrested this week and charged with multiple felonies, including insurance fraud and conspiracy for allegedly embezzling...
Apr 8 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Penny Miller vice president in the firm’s employee benefits consulting team. She will be based in San Francisco and report to David Wiesner, regional director of...
Apr 8 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to settle claims by California prosecutors that its background checks on drivers weren’t as thorough as advertised.The company is required to pay a civil penalty of $10 million within...
Apr 8 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. drivers suing to be treated like employees are trying to add $1 billion in penalties under California’s unique “bounty hunter” statute as they prepare for trial in June.About...
Apr 6 2016 // The governing committee of the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau voted unanimously on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a mid-year pure premium rate reduction filing to the California...
Apr 6 2016 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee took another step towards making auto, homeowners and workers’ compensation insurance completely paperless by approving Assembly Bill 2591 on Wednesday.AB 2591, authored by...