All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2016 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services has named Alicia Bergsto an account manager. Prior to Burnham Bergsto was an associate consultant with Health Net Inc., where she worked in partnership with senior...
Jan 15 2016 // The National Weather Service says a small tornado touched down in Ventura County, Calif. during last week’s powerful El Niño-driven storms. Meteorologists conducting a storms survey determined the tornado swept...
Jan 15 2016 // An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in California last year could have been prevented if managers had taken into account aging safety equipment and shut down a key, spark-generating part of the refinery before...
Jan 14 2016 // Futuristic self-driving cars traveling along California roads have needed plenty of old-fashioned human intervention to stay safe.California’s Department of Motor Vehicles this week released reports filed by seven...
Jan 13 2016 // Brown & Brown Insurance Services of California Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of San Francisco, Calif.-based BayRisk Insurance Brokers Inc. Following the transaction, the...
Jan 13 2016 // Barney & Barney has appointed nine senior executives to principals.The new principals in the firm’s San Diego, Calif. office are: David Freeman; Richard Hallett; LuAnn McSwiggen and Debora Walker. The new...
Jan 13 2016 // Few people in the world could probably offer the sort of perspective on China’s developing insurance industry as economist Qixiang Sun.Sun is the dean of the school of economics at Peking University, and director of...
Jan 12 2016 // Editor’s note: To hear the full interview click on the podcast above or visit www.insuarncejournal.tv.Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years, has been...
Jan 12 2016 // Worldwide Facilities has opened a new location in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, Calif. and has named Brian Vassallo senior vice president in the office. Vassallo will focus on providing service to clients and...
Jan 12 2016 // The California Rural Water Association (CRWA) and Glatfelter Public Practice (GPP) have formed MemberGuard, a fully reinsured property & casualty pool targeted to launch April 1, 2016. Based on recently enacted...
Jan 11 2016 // The changing excess and surplus insurance landscape was an oft discussed topic on Monday, with experts describing the challenges and opportunities going forward.“The business that we have and the risk we see is going...
Jan 11 2016 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Company has launched Equity Protector, a residential earthquake insurance policy in California. Equity Protector provides for the protection of $50,000 or $75,000 in Coverage A – Dwelling...
Jan 11 2016 // It’s about the closest thing to DIY earthquake insurance as one can get, though there’s definitely no indication that the newest consumer-friendly features being rolled out by the California Earthquake...
Jan 11 2016 // The owners of a janitorial company serving luxury hotels in Southern California and Nevada have been accused of running a $7 million workers’ compensation insurance and tax evasion scam.Hyok “Steven” Kwon...
Jan 11 2016 // Mia Chang, 51, former insurance broker and owner of Lotte Insurance Services in Southern California, was sentenced in December for felony insurance fraud and grand theft.After her arrest Chang returned $19,218 in stolen...
Jan 8 2016 // A jury in Sacramento, Calif. federal court has decided that a Placer County nonprofit did not discriminate against a deaf employee by failing to provide an American Sign Language interpreter. The Sacramento Bee reported...
Jan 8 2016 // An earthquake jolted a Northern California area but there were no reports of any problems. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 4.3-temblor struck shortly before 11 p.m. Wednesday and was centered 36 miles...
Jan 8 2016 // The owner of a Northern California construction firm was arrested Thursday on nine felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud and tax evasion totaling $187,707 in losses.William Huffman, 47, of...
Jan 7 2016 // An early morning earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 shook the inland region of Southern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS says the quake occurred at 6:42 a.m. Wednesday and was...
Jan 7 2016 // Chipotle has been served with a federal subpoena as part of a criminal investigation tied to a norovirus outbreak at one of its restaurants in California.The investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s...