All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2015 // Hull & Company Inc. has named Sherif Azer a commercial underwriter/broker in its Irvine, Calif. office. Azer focuses on commercial lines with the placement of E&S brokerage and MGA risks. Azer began his insurance...
Mar 5 2015 // Parents of a family that died when their Lexus sped up and crashed on a San Diego County, Calif. freeway have settled a lawsuit against the former car dealer.California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Saylor, his wife,...
Mar 4 2015 // California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control says it is suing a glass company for violating recycling laws after it added hazardous waste dust to wine bottles made at its Modesto plant.The department said...
Mar 4 2015 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have named Denis Brady, president of Burns & Wilcox Brokerage in San Francisco, chair of the SLA Board of Directors.Brady’s election was finalized after...
Mar 4 2015 // Asiana Airlines Inc. settled 72 personal injury claims in lawsuits filed over a July 2013 crash landing at San Francisco International Airport and is continuing to negotiate with other passengers.The airline announced the...
Mar 3 2015 // For those whose travel plans weren’t interrupted by the inclement weather, the spring meeting of the tri-annually convened National Conference of Insurance Legislators – held in Charleston, S.C. just as February...
Mar 2 2015 // The federal crop insurance program would be extended to growers of specialty crops, fruits and vegetables as well as other farmers who have not had access to policies under new rules proposed by the U.S. Department of...
Mar 2 2015 // Officials say a small fire erupted over the weekend near a Disneyland attraction, but it was put out by park firefighters and no one was hurt.Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown says the fire broke out about 9:20 p.m. on...
Feb 27 2015 // Atlas General Insurances Services LLC in California has named Mark Williams executive vice president of underwriting. Williams will be responsible for driving profitable workers’ compensation and premium growth...
Feb 27 2015 // Nearly every Californian sees the drought as a big problem and more now say they favor mandatory rationing, according to a survey released Thursday.The Field Poll found 94 percent of registered California voters consider...
Feb 27 2015 // A patient has sued the maker of a medical scope linked to the outbreak of a superbug at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.Attorney Pete Kaufman filed suit this week on behalf of 18-year-old Aaron Young, who remains...
Feb 26 2015 // A dog owner has filed a lawsuit in California against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating the company’s dry dog food.Pet owner Frank Lucido filed the suit in...
Feb 26 2015 // In the Western U.S. there are nearly 900,000 homes representing an estimated reconstruction cost of more than $237 billion considered at “very high” or “high” risk from wildfires, a report issued...
Feb 26 2015 // The bullet train that will whisk passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles at 200 miles per hour won’t pass through the kinds of intersections that have led to two major commuter-rail accidents this...
Feb 25 2015 // Three former executives of a now-defunct non-profit have been ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution to 65 people who were exposed to airborne asbestos after their company directed workers to illegally remove debris...
Feb 25 2015 // Twenty-eight people were injured when a Southern California commuter train collided with a truck stuck on the tracks on Tuesday, toppling three rail cars.There were no deaths reported in the crash, which occurred at about...
Feb 24 2015 // The California Earthquake Authority has begun surveying Napa residents to find out how well their homes withstood the magnitude 6.0 earthquake centered in the South Napa area on Aug. 24, 2014.Under an initiative that CEA...
Feb 24 2015 // Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Aegis Specialty Insurance Services has named Brian Weaver vice president of sales. Weaver has more than 34 years of insurance sales experience. Most recently, Weaver was vice president of sales for...
Feb 23 2015 // Volunteers have installed thousands of free smoke alarms in a Southern California neighborhood where a fire last month killed a mother and her two sons. The Orange County Register reported 5,000 donated smoke alarms were...
Feb 23 2015 // Property/casualty insurance media company Wells Media Group announced four C-suite and managerial staff promotions.Julie Tinney now serves as chief marketing officer, Josh Carlson has been promoted to chief technology...