All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2016 // Bruce Thompson has joined The Iroquois Group as a regional manager in Southern California. His background is in property/casualty, as well as life insurance, and includes experience as a producer, agency owner, and carrier...
Mar 22 2016 // Susan Gordon, head of workers’ compensation underwriting at Zurich North America, was elected board chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute for 2016.Gordon was elected at CWCI’s 52nd...
Mar 22 2016 // Jeff Huebner, vice president of treasury for CSAA Insurance Group, has been named chairman of the board of governors for the California Insurance Guarantee Association. Huebner joined CSAA Insurance Group in 2001 as...
Mar 22 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Kyle Richards an associate producer in the Southern California office. Richards will develop new client relationships. His specialties include real estate, technology and...
Mar 21 2016 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has 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...
Mar 21 2016 // Matthew Noonan has been named principal of San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates.He joins Jeff Cavignac, Jim Schabarum, Scott Bedingfield, Patrick Casinelli and Matthew Slakoff in part ownership of Cavignac...
Mar 21 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,...
Mar 21 2016 // Seismologist Lucy Jones, the face of earthquake science and safety in Southern California, is retiring from the U.S. Geological Survey.Jones said in a Twitter posting Friday that she’s leaving federal service but...
Mar 21 2016 // Looking for new sales and opportunities in 2016? Here are a few of the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry this year.Sky’s...
Mar 21 2016 // A longshot proposal introduced in mid-March would make California the first state to allow rideshare drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize.The legislation came one week after the U.S. Chamber of...
Mar 21 2016 // Julie Diane Shinar, 44, of Long Beach, Calif., was convicted of theft by embezzlement in Long Beach Superior Court in early March.Shinar was ordered to serve three years of formal probation and pay $29,158 in restitution...
Mar 21 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has hired Steve Hall as a property/casualty insurance broker/producer.Hall will be based in EPIC’s Concord, Calif., office and report to Curt Perata, regional director of...
Mar 21 2016 // A California intermediate appellate court has reaffirmed that a professional negligence claim against a client’s property/casualty insurance broker is freely assignable.It also held that the assigned rights are...
Mar 18 2016 // An Uber executive lost a bid to throw out a breach of contract lawsuit filed against him by his former employer, Lyft, in advance of a trial scheduled for next month, according to a tentative ruling by a California state...
Mar 17 2016 // A federal judge threw out a lawsuit accusing Procter & Gamble Co. of misleading consumers by guaranteeing that Duracell batteries would not fail for 10 years, when in fact the batteries might leak when used or stored...
Mar 16 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones wants California drivers know about the department’s online tool that helps consumers shop for different insurers based on price.The tool is now being launched by the California...
Mar 16 2016 // Students at Sacramento State in California are being offered a ride to class in a driverless shuttle whose inventors hope will become the favored method of transportation on campuses and other small communities.The...
Mar 15 2016 // Authorities say a large cargo ship has leaked an unknown amount of oil in the Los Angeles Harbor.The Coast Guard says the leak was reported Sunday evening, where an oily sheen was visible near the vessel Istra Ace....
Mar 15 2016 // Bond manager Bill Gross will be able to pursue his lawsuit to recoup at least $200 million he claims that Pacific Investment Management Co. owes him in the wake of his 2014 ouster from the firm he co-founded.California...
Mar 14 2016 // Twenty Los Angeles, Calif.-area boys who say a Torrance High School wrestling coach sexually abused them are suing the school district and administrators, claiming they failed to protect the teens and ignored past...