All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2016 // Two California bills to ease regulation of Uber and other ridesharing companies have been bottled up for nearly a year in a committee chaired by a lawmaker whose brothers own a San Diego taxi company.But state Sen. Ben...
Mar 11 2016 // A longshot proposal introduced this week would make California the first state to allow rideshare drivers and all other independent contractors to unionize.The legislation comes one week after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Mar 9 2016 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Michael Landucci vice president and account executive of the firm’s San Francisco, Calif.-based construction practice.He has 14 years of experience and has specialized in risk...
Mar 7 2016 // Julie Diane Shinar, 44, of Long Beach, Calif., was convicted of theft by embezzlement in Long Beach Superior Court.Shinar was ordered to serve three years of formal probation and pay $29,158 in restitution to her victims....
Mar 7 2016 // The owner of a Sacramento, Calif. construction company has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and workers’ comp insurance fraud.The Sacramento Bee reported that 47-year-old William Alan Huffman entered his plea last week...
Mar 7 2016 // Protector Holdings has acquired Concord, Calif.-based BetterWay Insurance Services. Terms of the deal were not released. BetterWay specializes in providing insurance services to Hispanic consumers, and writes wries auto,...
Mar 7 2016 // An examination of California workers’ compensation independent medical review decisions shows roughly nine-in-10 of disputed medical service requests reviewed by an IMR physician agree with the utilization review...
Mar 7 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones reached an agreement last month with Allstate Insurance Co. and Allstate Indemnity Insurance to reduce the carrier’s homeowner insurance rates statewide by an average of...
Mar 7 2016 // Cypress, Calif.-based UCA General Insurance Services Inc. has named Frank Stipati president of the firm.He will be responsible for day-to-day operations and the profitability of UCA. Stipati has held various positions...
Mar 7 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google self-driving car struck a municipal bus in a minor crash, in what may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle. In a Feb. 23 report filed with California...
Mar 7 2016 // Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series on the oil and gas industry. The first article covered the important changes that occurred in 2015 and the significance of the Porter Ranch, Calif., blowout that...
Mar 4 2016 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Chris Houska, Western region managing director of R-T Specialty LLC, chair of the SLA Board of Directors.Houska’s election was finalized after...
Mar 4 2016 // A California appeals court has rejected efforts by a utility to stop housing Los Angeles residents driven from their homes by a gas leak that lasted almost four months.The 2nd District Court of Appeal denied a petition by...
Mar 4 2016 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc. has named Alexandra Dix as an account executive. Dix is an experienced broker consultant. She spent the previous six years at Moore Benefits before joining...
Mar 3 2016 // United Valley Insurance Services Inc. has named Eric Rasmussen member relationship manager. Rasmussen’s responsibilities include handling front line relationships with California member agencies as well as recruiting...
Mar 3 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has approved a new rideshare insurance product from Allstate Insurance.The Allstate coverage is for for people driving for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft....
Mar 3 2016 // On Feb. 25, 15 people at a Kansas factory were shot, three of them killed, by a co-worker whom police say had also shot two other people as he drove toward the facility. The shooting at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas,...
Mar 2 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.A review of 2015 natural hazard events revealed an overall reduction in property damage for the year. While this does not minimize the local impact of individual events...
Mar 2 2016 // Bond fund manager Bill Gross on Tuesday accused Pacific Investment Management Co. of falsely claiming he suddenly decided to abandon the firm he co-founded in an effort to win dismissal of his $200 million...
Mar 1 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it bears “some responsibility” after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month.The crash may be the first case of one of...