All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2014 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), established in 1994, helps communities by uniting the collective strengths of the industry to provide grants, volunteer service and leadership. Since its inception, IICF...
Dec 14 2014 // SullivanCurtisMonroe has named Jaime Medrano associate vice president in its Irvine, Calif. location. Medrano will guide SCM clients through the healthcare reform landscape and assist with the design and implementation of...
Dec 12 2014 // A Pineapple Express “super storm” now lashing California may be driven by climate change, a report states.Yet however strong the storm and no matter what’s causing it, California’s ongoing storm...
Dec 12 2014 // The House passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill after a day of disarray and just hours before U.S. government funding was set to run out.The vote last night was 219-206. With current government funding ending at midnight,...
Dec 11 2014 // California prosecutors sued Uber over the ride-booking company’s driver background checks and other allegations, adding to the popular startup’s legal woes in the U.S. and around the world.The lawsuits filed...
Dec 11 2014 // Shelley Dawson, Jon Greenstein and John Gaffney have joined Edgewood Partners Insurance Center in San Francisco.All will assume leadership roles in EPIC’s employer services platform, which provides a wide range of...
Dec 10 2014 // Anita Maxwell, who was featured in season four of the television reality series “Bridezillas,” has surrendered herself to the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County on 14 felony counts associated...
Dec 10 2014 // Aegis Specialty Insurance Services has partnered with motorcycle, off-road and watercraft dealerships in California to create an”Aegis Powersports” brand to combine extended service contracts, road hazard...
Dec 10 2014 // The estate of Mexican-American superstar Jenni Rivera is suing the owners of a Learjet that crashed two years ago, killing the singer and several members of her entourage.Rivera’s estate filed the negligence lawsuit...
Dec 10 2014 // A Southern California couple who were held in Qatar for nearly two years before they were cleared in the death of their 8-year-old daughter have sued the engineering firm that sent them overseas.The Los Angeles Times...
Dec 10 2014 // Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed spending billions of dollars to better protect Los Angeles against a devastating earthquake by strengthening thousands of vulnerable older buildings and fortifying the city’s water...
Dec 9 2014 // Oklahoma City-based INSURICA Insurance Management Network announced it acquired an agency in Oklahoma and one in California during the third quarter of 2014.In Oklahoma, INSURICA added James & Associates, located in...
Dec 4 2014 // A brief issued on the August 2014 South Napa earthquake shows damage estimates of insured losses likely to be less than $100 million, yet total damages from the event approached $1 billion.Catastrophe modeling firm Karen...
Dec 4 2014 // A man who says he suffered a serious heart condition after wearing a Donkey Kong ape costume at the Los Angeles Zoo has sued Nintendo.Parker Mills’ attorney, Tyler Barnett, says Mills was hired to play the ape...
Dec 3 2014 // Data and analytics provider CoreLogic has named Lindene Patton global head of hazard product development for its insurance and spatial solutions business.Patton will lead development and research analytics for natural...
Dec 3 2014 // A Pacific storm moved into drought-dry California on Tuesday, bringing hopes for much-needed moisture but fears of mudflows on wildfire-scarred hillsides.Light rain began falling before sunrise, but the heaviest downpours...
Dec 2 2014 // A Pacific storm will dump heavy rains across drought-stricken Southern and Central California, threatening the area with mudslides and floods.The storm will also leave snow across the Sierra Nevada mountains that may...
Dec 1 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said last month his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will...
Dec 1 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent a week in mid-November serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts...
Nov 28 2014 // General Motors Co. lost a bid to merge a California county prosecutor’s lawsuit over faulty ignition switches with customer cases pending in New York that make similar accusations about the carmaker’s conduct...