All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2014 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent, has launched of a professional division in El Segundo, Calif.The firm has also hired Frederick Fisher as director of professional liability....
Nov 17 2014 // Milestone Risk Management of Irvine, Calif. has named Steve Stonehouse its new president.Stonehouse begins at the start of 2015. Stonehouse created Stonehouse Consulting Group after retiring from the carrier CNA in 2012...
Nov 17 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Surmount Insurance Services has named James Phin a commercial lines coverage specialist in its firm. His focus is on working with manufacturers and startups. Phin has more than a decade of sales...
Nov 14 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Friday adopted an advisory average pure premium rate of $2.74 per $100 of employer payroll for workers’ compensation rates effective Jan. 1, 2015.The adopted amount is...
Nov 13 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said today his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will provide...
Nov 13 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent the last week serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts and...
Nov 12 2014 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG Insurance Services is expanding with 15 more branch locations in Texas, two additional in California, and another in Washington, the company announced.TWFG Insurance specializes in products...
Nov 12 2014 // A California jury has determined that San Diego County will have to pay $3 million to the parents of a heroin-addicted man who died of an asthma attack while detoxing in jail.The parents of Daniel Sisson sued the...
Nov 11 2014 // The California Department of Public Health does not try to determine how nursing home chains compare on key quality measures even though the information would be valuable and potentially life-saving for consumers, a...
Nov 11 2014 // Selena Edwards, 38, of Victorville, Calif., was arrested and faces 21 felony counts of insurance and workers’ compensation fraud associated with an alleged fraudulent claim against McDonald’s for second-degree...
Nov 10 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired SGB-NIA Insurance Brokers headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SGB-NIA provides retail property/casualty, risk management and employee...
Nov 10 2014 // Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are launching a new program to help businesses in the San Diego region tackle distracted driving.The program, funded by the California Office of Traffic...
Nov 7 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired NuWest Insurance Services Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based property/casualty agency. NuWest generates roughly $2.4 million in revenue and specializes in providing P/C insurance...
Nov 7 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Karman Chan chief financial officer in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif. headquarters.EPIC’s current CFO, Michael Gonthier, will transition to a new position as chief...
Nov 6 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Discovery Benefit Solutions Inc. in San Diego, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Discovery Benefit Solutions provides employee benefit consultation, management and...
Nov 5 2014 // Surety executive Sharon Rusconi and her team have joined Edgewood Partners Insurance Center in the Sacramento, Calif. office Rusconi’s book of business and other assets were purchased by EPIC from Lesron Insurance...
Nov 5 2014 // Californians voted against two measures opposed by the insurance industry, and reelected incumbent Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.Election results from Tuesday show the Democrat Jones won reelection with 56.3 percent of...
Nov 4 2014 // A spokeswoman for rideshare service Lyft says one of its drivers was involved in a multi-car crash in Northern California that left a man dead.California Highway Patrol officials said the driver was giving a ride to two...
Nov 4 2014 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance, has acquired three insurance brokerages, two in New York’s Buffalo area and one in California. Confie Seguros acquired The Insurance Market Agency Inc....
Nov 3 2014 // The family of the bus driver killed with nine others in a fiery collision with a FedEx truck in Northern California has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company.The Sacramento Bee reported that the lawsuit seeks...