All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2015 // Truck drivers who haul goods from the busiest port complex in the United States walked off the job Monday in a dispute over their wages and employee status, months after another West Coast labor conflict cost major delays...
Apr 27 2015 // Arson and homicide investigators are looking into the cause of an early morning fire over the weekend at a Southern California business where three people died.Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials say...
Apr 27 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has named Robert Jellen as managing director of Hub’s Los Angeles, Calif.-based entertainment practice. Hub also added Seth Cohen, vice president, and Dany Rodriguez, account executive, to...
Apr 24 2015 // RENO, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has named Lori A. Brown senior vice president and deputy general counsel.Brown is based out of the company’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif. offices. She is the...
Apr 24 2015 // A woman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this week against Southwest Airlines, claiming crew members mistook her husband’s medical emergency for unruly behavior aboard a California flight and didn’t assist...
Apr 24 2015 // More than 143 million people in the mainland states now live on shaky ground, earthquake scientists say.That’s because more people have moved into the quake-prone West Coast and some quake zones were recently...
Apr 24 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers has given Jim Armitage the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor IIABA bestows on one of its members, during the annual Big “I” legislative...
Apr 23 2015 // As much of the U.S. and the rest of the planet celebrated Earth Day, California politicos and leaders squabbled over how best to deal with the ongoing drought – which may or may not be caused by climate change, depending...
Apr 23 2015 // A study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute indicates some benefits were had from California’s workers’ compensation reform bill.This WCRI 15th edition of the CompScope’ Benchmarks study...
Apr 23 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a statewide rate reduction of 10 percent for earthquake insurance policies issued by the California Earthquake Authority.The reduction is effective Jan. 1, 2016. Jones...
Apr 23 2015 // The number of Californians who died on the job rose slightly in 2013, according to a Department of Industrial Relations report.The uptick apparently corresponds to California’s higher employment rates and its...
Apr 22 2015 // The Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group in California has named Dave Gibson vice president of claims. Gibson has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance claims industry, and has held management positions for most...
Apr 22 2015 // CompWest Insurance Co. has hired Edward Pedroza as a business development consultant in its Northern Los Angeles/Inland Empire territory. Pedroza will be responsible for account underwriting, agency relationships and...
Apr 21 2015 // Though many researchers in California are focused on the lack of rain, a group in the Bay Area found that if the skies do open up flooding will be a problem. The San Mateo County Times reported that the nonprofit Bay Area...
Apr 21 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 Los Angeles...
Apr 21 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. must defend against a lawsuit accusing the popular ride-sharing service of discriminating against blind people by refusing to transport guide dogs, a federal judge ruled.In a decision late Friday...
Apr 21 2015 // U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable coastal areas. With that in mind, new risk metrics could better help monitor exposures, Karen...
Apr 20 2015 // California written premium for calendar year 2014 was roughly $16.5 billion, 11 percent above the total in 2013 and 88 percent above the written premium reported for 2009, according to a report from the California...
Apr 20 2015 // A judge has rejected a California timber company’s attempt to undo a $47 million legal settlement for a massive 2007 wildfire.Sierra Pacific Industries had accused federal prosecutors of engaging in misconduct. But...
Apr 20 2015 // A hacker who helped break into the computer systems of DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works is going to federal prison.Mario Chuisano was given a three-year sentence last week and...