All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2014 // A California wealth adviser must pay two ex-employees almost $3.7 million for allegedly defaming them, a securities arbitration panel found.The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel ruled in favor of...
Jun 5 2014 // Leroy Barnes, 27, of Los Angeles, known as one of the dancing hamsters in Kia car commercials, was arrested on insurance fraud charges related to his alleged fraudulent collection of state disability insurance...
Jun 5 2014 // The mother of a Central California teenager who committed suicide after years of anti-gay bullying has reached a $750,000 settlement with her son’s school district. Wendy Walsh, whose 13-year-old son, Seth, hanged...
Jun 4 2014 // It looks like incumbent Dave Jones will face off against Republican opponent Ted Gaines in the race for insurance commissioner, according to results from Tuesday’s primary election.Jones, a heavily favored Democrat,...
Jun 3 2014 // The recent plague of wildfires in Southern California and in neighboring states seems to have more people checking on their homeowners policies – and more people concerned about the threat of wildfires may be taking some...
Jun 3 2014 // A hash oil operation is suspected in an explosion that burned a man and several units of a Redding, Calif. apartment complex during the weekend. The Record Searchlight newspaper reported the 9:30 a.m. Sunday blast and...
Jun 3 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 3 2014 // Scott Ferguson and Norma Cervantes have joined the Leavitt Group’s San Diego, Calif. office.Ferguson is a senior vice president and practice leader on risk management accounts specializing in construction,...
Jun 2 2014 // Grass Valley, Calif.-based Networked Insurance Agents has promoted Tammy Magliola to vice president of business development.Magliola will direct sales initiatives for expanding affiliate membership and increasing member...
Jun 2 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.The Modesto Bee reported that Foster Farms in...
Jun 2 2014 // A California construction worker died from a fall after a railroad bridge he was cutting collapsed and pulled him down to a freeway, authorities said.Okesene Faasalele, 59, of Long Beach, was attached to the bridge over...
Jun 2 2014 // When Thomas Jeffery visits states like California, he likes to take some time out to drive around and take a hard look at the conditions and the landscape.As a scientist, Jeffery feels this helps put first-person...
Jun 2 2014 // Gov. Jerry Brown says the state is gearing up for California’s worst fire season ever. Brown told ABC’s “This Week” during an interview in May that the nearly dozen fires in San Diego County that...
Jun 2 2014 // A four-year investigation into an organized fraud ring has uncovered a million-dollar scheme targeting high-end vehicles through auto loan and insurance fraud has led to several arrests, the California Department of...
Jun 2 2014 // Leavitt Group of Boise has hired Deana Wood and Marisa Wood for its office in Idaho.The two are unrelated. Deana is a commercial account manager, and will service and maintain existing accounts and handle policy inquires....
Jun 2 2014 // California has new rules that govern the testing of self-driving cars on public roads. The rules, approved on May 19 by state attorneys, require a human to be in the driver’s seat when a computer takes control during...
Jun 2 2014 // Betsy Montgomery, drove the same car on her 55th birthday that she drove as a 15-year-old living in south Jackson, Mississippi – a 1966 red Mustang that her dad bought from the original owner in 1973.How she got the...
May 30 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...
May 30 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...
May 30 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based CMR Risk & Insurance Services Inc. named Grisell Sparkman an account manager for the construction division as well as manager for the small business unit. Grisell has more than 10 years of...