All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2014 // Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers has hired Erik Johansson to head its new division, Performance Bonding Surety & Insurance Brokerage L.P. Johansson will serve as president of the division. He has written...
Jun 27 2014 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent, named Jenny O’Brien as production manager in commercial lines for the Irvine, Calif. office. O’Brien joined USG in 2012 as a...
Jun 26 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37.5...
Jun 26 2014 // Joel Paredes Saldana, 22, owner of Lightning Auto Body in Riverside County, was arrested Wednesday as California Department of Insurance detectives and multiple allied agencies swept up at least 19 co-conspirators...
Jun 26 2014 // A bill that would impose insurance requirements on ridesharing companies in California passed a state Senate committee 9-1 on Wednesday, although with somewhat lower costs to the industry than previously written into the...
Jun 23 2014 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Stockton, Calif.-based Daugherty Insurance Services, a retail broker. Details of the deal were not disclosed. Scott Daugherty will remain in his leadership...
Jun 20 2014 // Two women who alleged they were sexually abused by a teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school reached a $14 million settlement with the district.David Ring, the women’s attorney, said they will each receive $7...
Jun 20 2014 // Southern California’s Rady Children’s Hospital says the private health data of more than 20,000 young patients was mistakenly shared with a handful of job applicants.U-T San Diego reported that in one breach...
Jun 19 2014 // XL Group’s global excess casualty team has added Joanne Damsky as a senior underwriter in San Francisco. Damsky reports to Matt Stitham, vice president of excess casualty’s Western zone. Damsky has 20 years of...
Jun 19 2014 // Citing incidents like the 2013 limousine fire that killed five women on the San Mateo Bridge, California’s state auditor said Tuesday that the commission responsible for overseeing passenger carriers has failed to...
Jun 18 2014 // John Monreal, 45, of Santa Clarita, Calif. was arrested on May 30 by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies on 11 felony counts of embezzlement and insurance code violations after he allegedly duped...
Jun 18 2014 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. has hired Marco Figueroa as a senior loss consultant. Figueroa will work with clients to provide risk management and safety and health services. Figueroa has 19 years of...
Jun 17 2014 // A bill to more thoroughly regulate insurance requirements for ridesharing companies is successfully wending its way through California Legislature as insurance associations and representatives for companies like Uber and...
Jun 17 2014 // Evacuation orders were lifted Monday evening after firefighters made significant progress containing 50 percent of a smoky mountain wildfire west of a lake near Bakersfield, officials said.The blaze has destroyed three...
Jun 16 2014 // The Frederick H. DiMeo Insurance Agency Inc. has purchased the personal lines division of Union City, Calif.-based Hughes AllMart Insurance Agency.The deal involves the acquisition of three insurance company books of...
Jun 16 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add additional agency owners in California in 2014, the company recently announced.The Northbrook, Ill-based company is expanding its recruiting campaign for the sixth consecutive year....
Jun 16 2014 // A Central California chicken-processing plant has filed a lawsuit against a pest-control company over a cockroach infestation that caused the plant to close for two weeks.Foster Farms in Livingston filed a lawsuit last...
Jun 16 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has added Greg Dobson as a principal in its employee benefits division.Dobson will be based in the company’s San Ramon office. His responsibilities will include the acquisition of...
Jun 16 2014 // California Earthquake Authority insurance policy sales jumped following the March 29 magnitude 5.1 La Habra earthquake by nearly as much as the spike in policy sales following the March 11, 2011, magnitude-9.0 Tohoku...
Jun 16 2014 // The fiery fight is apparently over between the makers of a popular and tasty hot sauce and a small Southern California city that said its factory’s smells were unbearable, after the Irwindale City Council voted to...