All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2014 // Esurance has Eric Brandt managing director and chief claims officer. Brandt will oversee the strategic direction and management of Esurance’s claims function. Brandt will report to Gary Tolman and be based at...
Oct 14 2014 // The San Francisco region will probably be struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.7 in coming decades, and most of the billions of dollars of damages wouldn’t be covered by insurance.A worst-case,...
Oct 13 2014 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations Director it taking a bit of umbrage with a study released last week that showed the state was ranked as the costliest for workers’ compensation.Despite major...
Oct 13 2014 // Earthquake risk in the San Francisco Bay Area is on the rise while earthquake insurance penetration statewide has dropped significantly since the Loma Prieta earthquake that rocked the Bay Area 25 years ago, causing nearly...
Oct 10 2014 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, has named Greg Meyer chief operating officer. Meyer most recently served as the senior personal lines executive at Tower Group and president of its reciprocal...
Oct 9 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for more reform of California’s recently reformed...
Oct 9 2014 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Ron Guerena senior account executive and vice president in the firm’s Southern California property/casualty practice. Guerena will work on building the practice’s client...
Oct 9 2014 // An Orange County school district will test every room in its 11 schools for asbestos after questions were raised about whether students were exposed to carcinogenic dust during construction projects earlier this school...
Oct 8 2014 // Barney & Barney has relocated its San Francisco, Calif. offices to a new, larger location in the financial district.The new offices, located at California and Front, are 50 percent larger than the previous location at...
Oct 7 2014 // Adopting a state-mandated workers’ compensation prescription drug formulary similar to systems in place in Texas and Washington could reduce California workers’ comp pharmacy payments by between $124 million...
Oct 6 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named David Wiesner managing principle and regional director in EPIC’s employee benefits consulting division.Wiesner will focus on growing EPIC’s employee benefits...
Oct 6 2014 // Eric Lee, 64, of Orange County, Calif., was arrested last week by the California Department of Insurance and charged with 20 felony counts, including grand theft and allegedly providing false or misleading information to...
Oct 6 2014 // When it comes to California earthquake insurance, affordability is in the eye of the beholder. Californians are not convinced that earthquake risk is sufficient to warrant the purchase of products that are currently...
Oct 6 2014 // Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 2064, which aims to change the way Californians learn about earthquake insurance for their homes.Under California law, insurers that sell residential property insurance also must...
Oct 6 2014 // Recently the California Court of Appeals provided an excellent summary of the duties of insurance agents and brokers under California law. See Mark Tanner Const., Inc. v. HUB Int’l. Ins. Services, Inc., 224...
Oct 6 2014 // The wife and sons of former San Diego Chargers defensive back Paul Oliver are taking legal action against the NFL for wrongful death, blaming sports-related concussions for his suicide last year.The suit was filed in late...
Oct 3 2014 // Opponents of Proposition 45 on the upcoming California ballot like to draw a comparison with Proposition 103, the state’s primary auto insurance law.So do its backers. Prop. 45 seems to have slipped in the polls. A...
Oct 3 2014 // JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, and Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services announced that JLT USA will be purchasing part of Alliant’s...
Oct 2 2014 // The city of Novato and other defendants have settled a lawsuit by the family of a 12-year-old California girl who was struck and killed by a SUV while riding her bicycle home from school two years ago. The Marin...
Oct 2 2014 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill requiring certain types of limousines to have two fire extinguishers and undergo regular safety checks.Brown announced Tuesday that he signed SB611 by Democratic Sen. Jerry...