All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2015 // Risk Strategies Co. has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Dubraski & Associates Insurance Services, a national brokerage and consulting firm that provides risk and insurance solutions to the healthcare...
Jun 3 2015 // Lafayette, Calif.-based Stone Creek Insurance Agency has hired three new people for its Northern California office.Russell Wong has been named a personal lines broker. He specializes in personal lines insurance, including...
Jun 3 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Mary Roach Insurance Agency Inc., a provider of crop insurance to the agribusiness community headquarter in Fresno.Mary Roach will be instrumental in...
Jun 3 2015 // The California Assembly is advancing a pair of bills designed to help buildings withstand earthquakes.The legislation approved unanimously this week would expand financial incentives for seismic retrofits. AB428 would...
Jun 3 2015 // A woman at the center of a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against an elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm filed an appeal of a jury verdict against her.Alan Exelrod, an attorney for plaintiff Ellen Pao, filed the...
Jun 3 2015 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. has named Steve Falecki vice president and forest and logging practice leader. Falecki will lead Schinnerer’s forest and logging underwriting unit housed in Sacramento, Calif. He will...
Jun 2 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services has named Jeffrey Strassner a managing director in surety in its construction services group. Strassner is based in the Los Angeles, Calif. office. He is charged with expanding the commercial...
Jun 1 2015 // California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would intercept more insurance payments and use them to pay beneficiaries’ overdue child support.About a quarter of insurance companies now voluntarily participate in...
Jun 1 2015 // The U.S. Geological Survey says a light earthquake struck Southern California on Sunday morning. The magnitude 4.1 quake occurred at 6:02 a.m. Sunday at a depth of about 7 miles. The quake was located about 7 miles...
Jun 1 2015 // A 31-year-old man has filed a $25 million lawsuit against a California police department, saying he lost his left eye after Fairfield police used a Taser gun on him.Jerome Hill stated in his complaint that police hit him...
Jun 1 2015 // A Los Angeles gym is facing a lawsuit from the three kids of a man who had a heart attack and died while working out. Marc Palotay’s son and two daughters filed the lawsuit in May seeking automatic defibrillator...
Jun 1 2015 // California lawmakers have advanced a bill that would allow so-called beer bikes to operate on streets, but leaves cities to decide if alcohol is allowed on board.The Senate in late May unanimously passed the bill by Sen....
Jun 1 2015 // A California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s decision to exclude temporary staffing agencies from self-insuring for workers’ compensation, a ruling that upholds one of the provisions in the...
May 28 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has named Karl Olson vice president and professional liability regional practice leader in its San Francisco team. Olson will be responsible for delivering professional liability brokerage...
May 28 2015 // NAS Insurance has launched a professional and general liability insurance program for owners of residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs). The coverage is designed to help California RCFE owners comply with the...
May 28 2015 // Jason Kwon, 32, of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., and David Chang, 32, of Burbank face 41 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and identity theft for allegedly submitting fraudulent claims totaling $1.3 million to...
May 28 2015 // A U.S. judge in California allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed on Wednesday against satellite-radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc over the payment of royalties for songs produced before 1972, in a case that is being...
May 27 2015 // Farmers will become the first large California insurer to start offering a ridesharing insurance product on Thursday.In an announcement made at the Los Angeles office of California Department of Insurance today, California...
May 27 2015 // Fast-food restaurant Lee’s Sandwiches has recalled 213,000 pounds of meat because it bore unauthorized United States Department of Agriculture marks of inspection, despite having not been inspected properly. The...
May 26 2015 // A California man was arrested in Arizona on charges that he scammed hundreds of people in three states in a fire insurance inspection scheme.Robert Musich, 46, was being held on bond following his arrest in Lake Havasu...