All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2014 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based The Buckner Co. has named Robert F. Atwell as the firm’s healthcare practice leader.Atwell’s primary focus will be on serving the region’s healthcare community. Atwell has 40...
Oct 17 2014 // When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the fate of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate in 2012, the nation was gripped by an intimate and personal political drama worthy of Broadway or, at least, General...
Oct 17 2014 // A group of homeowners has sued a golf course owner for negligence, stemming from a wildfire that destroyed eight houses, two businesses and an apartment complex near San Diego.The lawsuit filed last week in San Diego...
Oct 16 2014 // Who hates that glass-half-full analogy?I’m guessing more than half of you, but let’s not let that stand in the way of using the clichéd-to-death philosophical quandary to illustrate a point being made by a new...
Oct 16 2014 // When Richard Polizzi, chairman of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. in Pasadena, Calif., adopted the lion as part of his logo, he never imagined just how popular that little company mascot would become in the...
Oct 16 2014 // At 10:16 a.m. on Thursday employees at Golden Bear Insurance Co. were all under their desks practicing good risk management.Oct. 16 marked another Great ShakeOut event in California. According to California Insurance...
Oct 16 2014 // Hub International Insurance Service Inc. has named Christopher Sindle a sales consultant in the commercial division based in Folsom, Calif. In addition to his commercial brokerage production role, Sindle will serve as a...
Oct 15 2014 // California’s health insurance exchange is facing calls for a state investigation of its contracting practices, while a state senator urged the agency to account for deals that steered millions of dollars to a firm...
Oct 15 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Christopher Walker director of healthcare compliance and associate general counsel in employee benefits.Walker will be based in EPIC’s San Francisco, Calif. headquarters...
Oct 14 2014 // The future of insurance distribution was discussed at the CPCU Society’s annual All Industry Day in California on Tuesday.The day-long conference at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City included panels on the...
Oct 14 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center Co-founder and Executive Chairman Dan Francis is leaving, the firm announced on Tuesday.His departure is effective Nov. 1, according to EPIC. “In leaving...
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...