All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Tiffany McClellan regional director of employee benefits.McClellan will focus on growing EPIC’s employee benefits consulting business in Southern California, recruiting...
Sep 8 2014 // Isidro Santillan, 53, of Pacoima, Calif., has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of grand theft and three counts of commercial burglary.Santillan allegedly stole more than $100,000 by selling insurance policies and...
Sep 8 2014 // Millennials are driving a greater need for a more flexible auto insurance market, while Baby Boomers are proving new opportunities for independent agents, according to a study from a general agency headquartered in San...
Sep 8 2014 // A Riverside County, Calif. chiropractor is accused of masterminding an elaborate fraud scheme that bilked insurance companies out of millions of dollars.The Press-Enterprise reports Peyman Heidary is charged with heading a...
Sep 8 2014 // A report by the nonprofit research group Economic Roundtable released over the Labor Day holiday found that one-in-six construction workers in California fell into the state’s “informal economy,” costing...
Sep 8 2014 // Capital Insurance Group, a regional property/casualty insurer serving the Western U.S., has named L. Arnold Chatterton as president and CEO.The decision by the board of directors and the appointment follows Peter...
Sep 5 2014 // Scientists seeking to put seismic sensors deep in the San Andreas fault to study the mechanics of earthquakes are in danger of losing their funding, a newspaper reported.The National Science Foundation has said it is no...
Sep 4 2014 // A blood-red blotch that stains California kind of looks like its own nation slowly overgrowing the Western region of the U.S. map.Despite the gore, the latest version of the U.S. Drought Monitor map just out today actually...
Sep 4 2014 // Former Iowa resident Christina M. Pender and California resident Robert K. Taylor have pled guilty to defrauding insurance company AIG out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
Sep 4 2014 // Crews battling a wildfire in a far Northern California forest have expanded a mandatory evacuation order and expect another day of gusty winds and dry conditions that could push the fire over containment lines and into...
Sep 4 2014 // California regulatory judges recommended a $1.4 billion penalty on Tuesday _ the largest safety-related levy ever against a public utility in the state _ for a fiery 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in...
Sep 4 2014 // The cost of feeding California’s horses and cows is skyrocketing as the state’s persistent drought sends hay prices to historic highs.Tracy Underwood of the Santa Rosa Equestrian Center told the Press-Democrat...
Sep 4 2014 // The National Hurricane Center in Miami is tracking Hurricane Norbert, the 14th named Western Pacific storm of the season, as it moves up the West coast of Mexico towards the Baja Peninsula.The NHC’s most recent...
Sep 4 2014 // House Republican leaders are considering a short-term extension of the 80-year-old U.S. Export-Import Bank that is set to expire this month, a party aide said.An extension of several months is being discussed, said the...
Sep 3 2014 // California’s recent “Winequake” brought the public’s focus back to the state’s significant vulnerability to seismic events. Fortunately, the tremors, while costly, did not tally a high human...
Sep 2 2014 // A report by the nonprofit research group Economic Roundtable released over the Labor Day holiday found that one-in-six construction workers in California fell into the state’s “informal economy,” an...
Sep 2 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced today that Casey Soares is joining the firm as a vice president and property specialist. Soares will partner with client and prospect teams while serving as...
Aug 29 2014 // “It’s been a busy week,” said Glen Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority.The magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck Northern California in the early hours of Aug. 24 may cause up to $4 billion...
Aug 28 2014 // When Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Oakley, amended her measure to regulate transportation network companies, Uber, Lyft and others removed their opposition and are now supporting the bill.Assembly Bill 2293 was agreed to...
Aug 28 2014 // Merriwether and Williams Insurance Services in California has named Kathleen Creedon director of risk management services. Creedon will focus on the development of Merriwether’s risk management services, including...