All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 24 2014 // Eight Northern California families of special-needs students who were physically and verbally abused by a teacher during school will receive $8 million to settle a lawsuit.The Contra Costa Times reported the trustees of...
Jan 23 2014 // A winter wildfire season offers some unique challenges for firefighters like Mike Lopez.Lopez is president of CDF Firefighters, which represents the employees of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or...
Jan 20 2014 // A decade of lawmaking by U.S. states to ensure consumers are told when their data has been hacked still lets companies such as Target Corp. wait weeks or even months to disclose security breaches.Forty-six of 50 U.S....
Jan 17 2014 // Swett & Crawford, part of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford, is expanding its professional services practice group with the addition of Gregg Higgins. Higgins will join Swett & Crawford’s Irvine, Calif. office...
Jan 17 2014 // Bolton & Co. has acquired Los Angeles-based Rick Gombar Insurance Services Inc., an independent insurance agency that provides professional protection for the security industry. As part of the transaction, Rick Gombar,...
Jan 17 2014 // California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday 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 can be much...
Jan 17 2014 // Twenty years ago today a big one hit the Los Angeles area, killing several people and injuring thousands, damaging tens of thousands of properties, shutting down businesses, putting out of operation some of the...
Jan 17 2014 // A lawsuit over the payout of a $17.5 million policy related to Michael Jackson’s planned comeback concerts has been settled, attorneys told a judge on Wednesday.Lawyers for Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of...
Jan 17 2014 // A Roman Catholic diocese in Central California filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday after paying out millions of dollars to plaintiffs who made sexual abuse allegations during the past two decades.The Diocese of...