All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 4 2015 // IFG Cos. has named Michael R. Denton executive managing director in property. He is based in IFG’s Irvine, Calif. office.Denton assumes responsibility for leading and managing the brokerage property division,...
May 4 2015 // Scientists say the earthquake fault that runs through the coastal city of Ventura, Calif., can produce strong shaking and dangerous tsunamis, prompting state officials to study whether to revise hazard maps. The new...
May 4 2015 // California written premium for calendar year 2014 was roughly $16.5 billion, 11 percent above 2013 and 88 percent above the written premium reported for 2009, according to a report from the California Workers’...
May 4 2015 // Lloyd’s of London named Richard Magrath regional director for its Western U.S. region.Magrath will be based in Los Angeles, Calif., with responsibility for market development activities in California, Oregon,...
May 4 2015 // The owners of sewing companies subcontracted by True Religion Brand Jeans were arrested in mid-April on 18 felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud totaling more than $11 million in losses.Sung Hyun...
May 1 2015 // GEICO has named Greg Jacobi assistant vice president of underwriting in its San Diego, Calif. regional office.Previously, Jacobi served as assistant vice president of underwriting for the company’s Dallas regional...
May 1 2015 // Nearly 40 percent of California hospitals earned low ratings for patient safety in a recent national assessment.The Los Angeles Times reported that nonprofit The Leapfrog Group issued a national report card Wednesday that...
May 1 2015 // Authorities say personal information on 900 Los Angeles County mental health patients was stolen but it’s unclear if any of it was misused for ID theft.The Los Angeles Times reported documents with Social Security...
May 1 2015 // A Los Angeles, Calif. jury has awarded $13 million to a 73-year-old woman who contracted a deadly disease from using asbestos-containing talcum powder manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive Co.The verdict Tuesday in Superior...
Apr 30 2015 // San Diego, Calif.-based ICW Group Insurance Cos. in California has named Danny Engell vice president of enterprise strategic planning and analytics. In this newly created position Engell will report to President and CEO...
Apr 30 2015 // A magnitude 3.4 earthquake hit Carson, Calif. early Thursday, but no damage was reported. The quake was widely felt from downtown Los Angeles to Long Beach. It hit at 7:01 a.m. at a depth of 9.1 miles, according to the...
Apr 30 2015 // The average medical payment per claim for treating injured workers fell by 5 percent in California in 2013, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.The findings could reflect some early impact...
Apr 30 2015 // California businesses and residents that waste the most water as the state copes with a drought should face $10,000 fines, Gov. Jerry Brown said, as his administration rejected calls from cities to relax its mandatory...
Apr 30 2015 // California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under an ambitious plan announced by Gov. Jerry Brown.The governor’s executive order goes further than a federal proposal also aiming to curb...
Apr 30 2015 // Playboy Enterprises Inc. claims Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP committed malpractice by not advising it to settle a retaliatory-firing lawsuit.The case is anything but salacious. Catherine Zulfer initially sued...
Apr 29 2015 // Bumble Bee Foods and two managers have been charged by Los Angeles prosecutors with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna.Jose Melena was performing...
Apr 29 2015 // Los Angeles fire officials say a brush fire in California that that briefly threatened homes in a heavily populated suburban neighborhood was caused by sparks from a power tool that a homeowner was using to clear...
Apr 29 2015 // A popular mud run in Southern California has been canceled because officials don’t want to expend the water during the state’s historic drought. The Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper reported that it would...
Apr 28 2015 // The owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Palmdale, Calif., were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud.Tiffany Shorter, 26, and Jabe Satterfield, 77, failed to carry...
Apr 28 2015 // A California mental health facility is being sued by the family of Kevin Turner, who was found suffocated in his bed last year.The San Luis Obispo Tribune reported the lawsuit against Atascadero State Hospital says Turner...