All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 19 2015 // Officials are considering new water restrictions as California’s drought drags on, possibly forcing residents to ask for water at restaurants and for fresh towels and sheets at hotels.The State Water Resources...
Feb 18 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday issued a notice to property/casualty insurers doing business in California advising them that so-called “price optimization” in rate making is unfairly...
Feb 18 2015 // An explosion and fire at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Torrance, California, refinery sent ash spraying on nearby cars and burst windows of surrounding buildings Wednesday.The explosion occurred near a fluid catalytic cracking...
Feb 18 2015 // Authorities say they suspect an arsonist set a Northern California middle school’s cafeteria on fire.KCBS-Radio reported that Oakland fire fighters found an opened door when they arrived to put out the early morning...
Feb 17 2015 // CNA Financial Corp. has named Andrea Coleman vice president of the Orange County and San Diego branches in California. Coleman will be responsible for leading the branch teams to achieve their goals for continued growth...
Feb 17 2015 // San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services LLC has named Charles Lasher senior vice president of commercial operations. Lasher will be responsible for development, implementation and distribution of...
Feb 16 2015 // Liam McGee, an Irish-born banker and insurance executive who guided Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. through a taxpayer bailout and shored up the company’s finances, has died. He was 60.McGee died Feb. 13 after...
Feb 13 2015 // The Consumer Federation of California is alleging that Geico Insurance Co. illegally quotes higher minimum automobile coverage levels than permitted under state law to unmarried, lower or moderate-income motoristsThe...
Feb 12 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and state Sen. Ricardo Lara on Thursday urged Californians to make sure they are meeting their obligation to carry minimum liability insurance coverage on their vehicles and...
Feb 11 2015 // The American Insurance Association has named Jay F. Day vice president of state affairs for the Western region. The appointment is effective March 9. Day, who will join AIA’s Assistant Vice President Steve Suchil in...
Feb 10 2015 // Hub International Limited has added Bobbi Curry and Robyn Welch to its entertainment practice in Los Angeles, Calif. Curry, named managing director of entertainment, focuses on commercial risks including live event...
Feb 9 2015 // Firefighters on Sunday evening gained the upper hand on a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed 40 homes, burned nearly 11 square miles and forced about 150 people to leave two small California towns at the eastern base of...
Feb 9 2015 // The Sacramento Superior Court issued a decision in mid-January rejecting an insurance industry challenge to the California insurance commissioner’s regulations under Proposition 103.Among other things, Prop. 103...
Feb 9 2015 // Capital Insurance Group has named Dawnya Campbell agency development manager for the Western portion of the Bay Area Territory in the Northern California Region.The regional team serves independent agents for...
Feb 6 2015 // For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he’s spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state — earthquakes.He has learned a lot, said the director of...
Feb 6 2015 // Most California drivers would pay an extra $52 a year under a proposal to raise $2 billion a year to fix the state’s crumbling roads, bridges and highways.Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins’ proposal released...
Feb 6 2015 // Anthem Inc. faces what may be the first of many consumer lawsuits a day after disclosing that hackers obtained data on tens of millions of current and former customers and employees.A California woman on Thursday accused...
Feb 5 2015 // A San Diego, Calif. woman is suing a chiropractor she claims collapsed her lung during an unlicensed acupuncture treatment.Jamie Del Fierro says she was injured about a year ago during a treatment for tension headaches at...
Feb 5 2015 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. announced that it has successfully completed a $17.5 million surplus note issuance in a private placement to RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd. and funds under management by a premier asset...
Feb 4 2015 // A committee of regulators led by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is working on standards on ridesharing that departments of insurance in states across the U.S. can look to as an example.Whether the National...