All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2016 // Cody Ritchie of Crest Insurance Group LLC in Arizona and Ron Wilson of Partners of the West Insurance Services in San Diego, Calif. have merged. Wilson will continue to manage the California division of Crest. Crest...
Apr 6 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 6 2016 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Robert Schuhriemen senior vice president in its healthcare practice. Schuhriemen has 24 years of experience. He was a client executive with a global...
Apr 5 2016 // Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. won a tentative ruling dismissing claims that it failed to adequately warn consumers about cancer-causing formaldehyde found in some of its laminate flooring.Monday’s decision is a...
Apr 5 2016 // Pacific Investment Management Co. said former bond manager Bill Gross’ abusive conduct and effort to sabotage colleagues he deemed disloyal gave it “good cause” to oust him, and not pay any of the more...
Apr 4 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of La Quinta, Calif.-based Pickett and Associates Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pickett’s owners Debra Pickett and Richard Torres will join Hub California...
Apr 4 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 4 2016 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Brian McDonnell a managing principal, and the formation of a national construction specialty group.McDonnell will be based in EPIC’s Concord, Calif., office and report to...
Apr 4 2016 // Jeff Dailey, CEO of Farmers Insurance, turned what could have been a mere acceptance speech into a lesson-filled personal account of his first time seeing the devastation wreaked by the May 2011 tornado in Joplin,...
Apr 4 2016 // AmWINS Group, Group Benefit ServicesAmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Group Benefit Services Inc. and GBS Payroll Plus Inc., known collectively as Group Benefit Services, in Hunt Valley, Md. Terms of the transaction were not...
Mar 31 2016 // California Attorney General Kamala Harris says she has reached a nearly $5 million settlement with five electronics manufacturers accused of fixing prices on television and computer components. Harris’ office...
Mar 31 2016 // Raising the minimum wage in California to the highest statewide level in the nation would eventually cost taxpayers an additional $3.6 billion a year in higher pay for government employees, legislative analysts...
Mar 31 2016 // Mark down the Climate Change and Global Warming Working Group as the odds-on favorite committee to produce the most interesting chatter during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting next week in The...
Mar 30 2016 // Real estate specialist Mark Dobbs has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within the company’s real estate group.Los Angeles, Calif.-based Dobbs will focus on organizations with portfolios spanning...
Mar 29 2016 // Take1 Insurance announced that it is now a cover holder with Lloyd’s of London to provide excess liability coverage capacity of up to an additional $5 million in limits. Minimum rates start at $750 per each million...
Mar 28 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has established a regional aviation insurance team that operates out of the Santa Ana, Calif. office. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions offers a range of aviation insurance products, from physical...
Mar 25 2016 // California should delay action on a proposed state-run retirement savings plan for private-sector employees because it could end up leaving taxpayers on the hook, the Investment Company Institute said in a letter Thursday...
Mar 25 2016 // Volkswagen AG was given four more weeks to reach an agreement with regulators for getting 600,000 diesel vehicles off U.S. roads as it faces hundreds of lawsuits for rigging pollution control systems to cheat emissions...
Mar 24 2016 // Volkswagen AG will probably miss a Thursday court deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement with U.S. authorities over its tainted diesel engines, possibly exposing the carmaker to daily fines and other sanctions.While...
Mar 23 2016 // Association of California Insurance Companies President Mark Sektnan has been named chairman of the board for the Civil Justice Association of California. Sektnan will serve a two-year term. His duties will include...