All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to weigh whether to revive certain claims made in a class action lawsuit filed by employees against utility Edison International over its pension plan management.The nine justices...
Oct 1 2014 // James Levice Davis Junious, 33, was arrested for allegedly collecting more than $60,000 in workers’ compensation benefits he was not entitled to receive. Junious was charged with five felony counts including...
Oct 1 2014 // Stone Creek Insurance Agency in Lafayette, Calif. has hired Mia Pickens and George Lazar to help increase personal lines revenue and service.Pickens will serve as the personal lines account manager. Her main role will be...
Sep 30 2014 // Pet insurers must disclose important information regarding their policies, standardize definitions, and provide consumers with a 30-day “free look” period, under a bill signed into law by California Gov. Jerry...
Sep 30 2014 // The city of Fresno and the man who pleaded no contest in the drunken driving hit-and-run death of a 7-year-old California boy have agreed to pay the youth’s family more than $1 million to settle a civil lawsuit.The...
Sep 30 2014 // It was 2:28 p.m. in Munich on Sept. 26, and Bill Gross, in charge of $2 trillion as chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co., had just announced that he was joining Janus Capital Group Inc., a...
Sep 26 2014 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has appointed Peter Guastamachio as its chief financial officer.Guastamachio had been acting CFO since November 2013, and also serves as chief investment officer. As...
Sep 26 2014 // A huge wildfire in northeast California has run up a firefighting tab in excess of $50 million and become the second priciest blaze in the state this year, officials said.The King Fire east of Sacramento has cost some $53...
Sep 25 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 Monday...
Sep 25 2014 // Hull & Company Inc. and Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. have recently entered into an agreement to transfer Arrowhead’s traffic control insurance program book of business from Arrowhead to Hull’s...
Sep 24 2014 // Federal officials have given their backing to a redesigned license for immigrants living in California illegally, which includes wording that distinguishes it from those for legal residents.Homeland Security officials told...
Sep 24 2014 // Authorities in northwestern Mexico were struggling to get power back on in the resort zone of Los Cabos a week after Hurricane Odile barreled through, saying Monday that electricity had been restored to 19 percent of...
Sep 23 2014 // Risk Strategies Co. has named Melissa S. Masles senior vice president and chief operating officer for California. Masles will be based in the firm’s San Mateo office and have operational oversight of Risk...
Sep 22 2014 // Crews battling a huge Northern California wildfire are bracing for hotter temperatures and erratic winds.Fire spokesman Ryan Lubben says cooler, wet weather that helped firefighters over the weekend were expected to give...
Sep 22 2014 // When Kathryn Slater-Carter learned her family would lose $1.5 million after McDonald’s Corp. did not renew the franchise agreement on one of their restaurants in the San Francisco suburbs, she tried for a second time...
Sep 22 2014 // Capital Insurance Group has named John La Porta director of sales and marketing. La Porta will work alongside the regional field executives to provide direction and support for the agency development managers across the...
Sep 22 2014 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services LLC has named Sean Shannon vice president and property broker on the firm’s property team. Shannon will be based in WTCI’s San Francisco office. Shannon joins WTCI...
Sep 22 2014 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2014 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.1 percent increase...
Sep 22 2014 // To understand the current state of network security and privacy (cyber) coverage, it is helpful to have an understanding of the development and some of the major milestones which helped shape the coverage.The first cyber...
Sep 22 2014 // Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference held earlier this month scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most...