All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2015 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 553, which establishes new oversight aimed at reducing the number of insurance company insolvencies.AB 553 was authored by Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim, and was...
Aug 18 2015 // A short sharp earthquake rattled California’s San Francisco Bay Area, but there are no reports of injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake struck Monday and was centered just north of...
Aug 18 2015 // The California Earthquake Authority – the state’s quasi-public earthquake insurance pool – long has had a problem with take-up. Only about 10 percent of homeowners in this most seismically active state actually...
Aug 18 2015 // For people working for a small business that doesn’t have a retirement plan, help is on the way.Roughly half of the U.S. states are working to create government-sponsored automatic individual retirement account (IRA)...
Aug 17 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has named Robert Bennetsen to lead its Alliant Americas division as executive vice President and senior managing director. Bennetsen will spearhead Alliant’s...
Aug 17 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 42 counties in California to combat workers’ compensation insurance fraud.The grants are funded...
Aug 17 2015 // Workers’ compensation premiums in California continue to grow at double-digit rates, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.The WCIRB in July released its “State of the California...
Aug 17 2015 // A recent court decision may have the potential to change the practice of side agreements in workers’ compensation policies California, a practice that some say often goes on under the regulatory radar.Zurich American...
Aug 17 2015 // An Alameda County, Calif., jury has awarded Pennsylvania-based Victaulic Co., $55.3 in damages against three AIG companies.The trial in Victaulic Co. v. American Home Assurance Co. et al., in Alameda County Superior Court...
Aug 17 2015 // Six people involved in a mobile phone insurance scam in California have been sentenced on felony fraud charges after filing more than 1,300 claims for stolen and damaged phones totaling more than $500,000.The convicted...
Aug 17 2015 // The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded $4 million to four universities in the Pacific Northwest and California to boost the development of earthquake early warning systems.The University of Washington, the University of...
Aug 14 2015 // A former safety manager at a Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant in California has pleaded guilty in the death of a worker who was cooked with tons of tuna.Saul Florez was sentenced to probation and fined $5,000 after pleading...
Aug 14 2015 // The California Department of Motor Vehicles has agreed to make major revisions proposed by the Independent Agents & Brokers of California to its commercial requester agreement that will permit agents and brokers to...
Aug 14 2015 // A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday raised the likelihood that El Nino conditions would last into the Northern Hemisphere’s early spring to 85 percent, boosting the probability that drought-stricken...
Aug 13 2015 // Alfred W. Bottalico, former deputy commissioner for the financial surveillance branch of the California Department of Insurance, has joined Locke Lord LLP’s global regulatory and transactional insurance practice...
Aug 12 2015 // An Oakland, Calif. artist who painted a 98-foot-long mural depicting Lake Merritt on the side of an auto dealership nearly 30 years ago is suing the current and past operators of the building.The Oakland Tribune reported...
Aug 11 2015 // A wildfire in rural Riverside County, Calif. has surged to about 500 acres, forcing evacuations and leaving one person burned and three firefighters with minor injuries.The blaze off State Route 74 near Anza started as a...
Aug 11 2015 // A wildfire that erupted near a destructive blaze in Northern California’s rural, rocky hills expanded farther.The blaze had burned 9 square miles by Monday afternoon, the California Department of Forestry and Fire...
Aug 10 2015 // A significant increase in close encounters between passenger aircraft and drones is prompting demands from U.S. lawmakers for tighter regulation and enforcement to avoid a fatal collision.Pilots on four airliners spotted...
Aug 10 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 42 counties in California to combat workers’ compensation insurance fraud.The grants are funded...