All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2015 // The California Department of Insurance has approved the state’s first private passenger auto policy endorsement specifically crafted to cover drivers for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft. Coming...
Jan 27 2015 // Chevron says it agrees with several findings in a federal report about a 2012 fire at one of its refineries in California’s San Francisco Bay Area.But it adds the report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board inaccurately...
Jan 27 2015 // The California Public Utilities Commission has fined Pacific Gas & Electric $530,000 for safety violations it says it found during audits that began in 2012.The commission says in a Friday statement that the fines...
Jan 27 2015 // A sex abuse case claiming negligence against the Boy Scouts is getting underway in California and will include the use of previously undisclosed information from “perversion” files kept by the organization.The...
Jan 26 2015 // Worldwide Facilities Inc. has named Joe Rowland vice president and broker specializing in casualty products in its Irvine, Calif. office. Rowland will be responsible for new business development in the casualty...
Jan 26 2015 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has begun a 30-day comment period on a draft white paper (available here) that no doubt will shape the development in states across the country of insurance requirements...
Jan 26 2015 // California has retracted a notice that said private drivers for ridesharing companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. must have a commercial license plate or risk getting a citation.The California Department...
Jan 26 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones ordered Mercury Insurance to pay a fine of $27.5 million because Mercury auto insurance consumers were allegedly charged unapproved broker fees.Mercury did not obtain...
Jan 26 2015 // Vermont gets a grade of “A+” and California and North Carolina get grades of “F” in the annual report card on state insurance regulation issued by the free market think tank, The R Street...
Jan 23 2015 // George N. Gibbs Jr. was a man who was famous in insurance circles for his ability to tell a good story, and those who knew him say he was passionate about protecting the interests of his clients.Gibbs died on Dec. 31, 2014...
Jan 23 2015 // Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, facing gender-bias claims by ex-partner Ellen Pao, may not get access to her performance reviews, complaints about her and other personnel records it sought from her other employers in...
Jan 21 2015 // The Sacramento Superior Court issued a decision rejecting an insurance industry challenge on the California insurance commissioner’s regulations under Proposition 103 that limit the amount of advertising costs...
Jan 21 2015 // USG Insurance Services Inc. has launched a new office in San Diego, Calif. and hired Michael Tourtellott as a producer and broker in the office. Tourtellott will handle commercial lines accounts nationally, with a focus on...
Jan 21 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 Northern California regional team serves independent...
Jan 20 2015 // Insurance industry associations say Massachusetts’ newly developed rideshare regulations are vague and woefully deficient in addressing the insurance concerns.The regulations, crafted by Massachusetts Department of...
Jan 20 2015 // Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. has named Ronnie O’Dell corporate development director. O’Dell will focus on expanding PacificComp’s presence in the California workers’ compensation marketplace....
Jan 20 2015 // Isidro Santillan, 54, has been sentenced to three years in state prison and agreed to pay more than $133,000 in restitution to multiple victims.For more than two years Santillan reportedly embezzled more than $100,000 from...
Jan 20 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has named Nancy Arky the company’s Tribal First group as a casualty underwriting manager. She will oversee the group’s casualty underwriting department,...
Jan 20 2015 // Workers’ compensation indemnity claim frequency in California has continued to rise unlike in most other states, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.The WCIRB recently...
Jan 20 2015 // San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services LLC has named Matt Roselle executive vice president of marketing. Roselle will be responsible for the strategic development of sales and marketing personnel. He will...