All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2014 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services launched a rebranding campaign, unveiling a new logo and website on Tuesday in line with the specialty insurance market. According to NAS CEO Richard Robin, the new branding...
Feb 4 2014 // Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services has hired Joe Bonura in its Central California operation. Bonura specializes in commercial insurance for trucking and agriculture. Prior to the Leavitt Group, Bonura sold individual...
Feb 3 2014 // A Los Angeles suburb is spicing up its lawsuit against a hot-sauce manufacturer it claims polluted the air with pungent smells.Stephen Onstot, an attorney representing Irwindale, tells City News Service that the small...
Feb 3 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Barney & Barney is a provider of insurance, risk management and employee benefits to...
Feb 3 2014 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of the insurance entities within the Mercury Casualty GroupBest also...
Feb 1 2014 // Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced they won’t send any water from the state’s vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented move that affects...
Feb 1 2014 // The mother of a teenager who was stabbed to death at a Los Angeles school has reached a tentative settlement in her wrongful-death lawsuit against the school district.While a potential deal has been reached details...
Jan 31 2014 // A judge in Los Angeles has reinstated a lawsuit by Nicollette Sheridan over her firing from “Desperate Housewives.”The ruling on Wednesday could lead to a new trial on her claim that she was improperly ousted...
Jan 30 2014 // Three previously unrelated Southern California insurance agencies have formed a cluster to share large clients, pool resources, ensure perpetuation, maintain independence – and to grow their cluster.Lloyd S. Berkett...
Jan 29 2014 // Santa Monica, Calif.-based White & Company Insurance Inc. named Amber Seggie assistant vice president. Seggie joined the firm in 2012 after having started her own business, Seggie Insurance Services LLC the year...
Jan 29 2014 // The California state Assembly has approved two bills that would require school districts to make detailed plans for reporting child abuse and prepare for violent incidents on campus.AB135 by Democratic Assemblywoman Joan...
Jan 28 2014 // Capital Insurance Group named Jeff Batozech as the regional field executive of Northern California.CIG has combined its North Coast, Bay Area and Sacramento regions into the newly formed Northern California Region and...
Jan 27 2014 // Chris Le was named director of personal lines for Los Angeles, Calif.-based Anderson & Murison Inc. Le will be responsible for the underwriting and processing of all personal lines at the company. He has been with...
Jan 27 2014 // Brown & Brown, The Wright GroupDaytona Beach, Fla.-based national insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. is acquiring for $602.5 million The Wright Insurance Group LLC from Aquiline Capital Partners, Wright’s...
Jan 27 2014 // Jerry BrownCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown in mid-January proclaimed a state of emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for drought conditions.“We can’t make it rain, but we...
Jan 27 2014 // IMA Inc. named Rick Dingman director of enterprise risk management.Dingman will work with the operations teams and sales teams in developing and marketing alternative risk strategies for IMA’s larger clients....
Jan 27 2014 // If you think Google when you think about autonomous vehicles driving the streets, you’re leaving out the rest of the players in what some see as the future of the auto industry.If fact, there are enough players in...
Jan 27 2014 // A key part to California’s sweeping workers’ compensation reform is working, according to a new study and the people running the system.More than 95 percent of workers’ comp medical treatment requests are...
Jan 27 2014 // Walter Martinez, 60, of Alta Loma, Calif., in mid-January pled guilty to 43 felony counts of using cappers – recruiters paid from victims’ insurance settlement – to get clients for his practice.He evidently used...
Jan 27 2014 // Federal environmental regulators will start requiring oil and gas operations off the Southern California coast to report chemicals discharged into the ocean from fracking.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January...