All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 29 2016 // Lafayette, Calif.-based Stone Creek Insurance Agency has named Maridel Hansen front office manager in its Northern California office. Hansen has more than 10 years of insurance experience ranging in duties from supervision...
Feb 29 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...
Feb 29 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...
Feb 25 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has added Trish Drew to the firm’s Northern California construction practice. Drew has more than 35 years of experience, and has focused on the risk management and insurance...
Feb 25 2016 // Michigan and California, vying for control of our driverless future, are each proposing crumbling World War II military sites as ideal locations to test robot cars. Michigan’s secret weapon? Better potholes.The Great...
Feb 24 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...
Feb 24 2016 // SDS General Insurance Services Inc. in California has named Pauline Bareno vice president of marketing. Bareno began her career at an insurance carrier, moving to the retail side at John Burnham Insurance, International...