All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired G. S. Levine Insurance Services Inc. in San Diego, Calif.The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. G. S. Levine is a retail insurance broker providing property/casualty,...
Oct 24 2013 // National Transportation Safety Board investigators say under Bay Area Rapid Transit rules, the two track workers who were killed in an accident Saturday were responsible for their own safety. James Southworth, the...
Oct 24 2013 // The Leavitt Group named Angela Newman vice president in its national restaurant insurance program. Newman will work in the Covina, Calif. office. Newman has more than 25 years of experience, and specializes in risk...
Oct 22 2013 // The owner of a Northern California construction company and his family members in were convicted of committing workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud.Jeffrey Thranow, 59, owner of Costa Bella Builders was...
Oct 22 2013 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Candice White director of marketing and communications in its Irvine, Calif. office. White has experience in creative marketing, project management, brand development,...
Oct 16 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center LLP is working with Bank of America Corp. to solicit offers, according to the people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the process is private.The San Mateo,...
Oct 16 2013 // All work has stopped at the new $1.2 billion San Francisco 49ers showcase stadium while police, firefighters and state workplace safety officials investigate a second deadly workplace accident there in less than four...
Oct 15 2013 // After the behemoth workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012, state lawmakers this year enacted only a handful of measures that may affect or relate to workers’ compensation.Bills signed by Gov. Jerry...
Oct 15 2013 // California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out...
Oct 15 2013 // Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Saturday that would have allowed some lawsuits victims who are now barred by the statute of limitations to file lawsuits against private institutions that employed their abusers.Brown said he...
Oct 11 2013 // The number of homes at risk from wildfires in western U.S. states jumped 62 percent in the past year as more properties were developed in fire-prone areas, according to a report released on Thursday.About 1.2 million homes...
Oct 11 2013 // A jury in California on Thursday found Toyota Motor Corp. not liable in one of the first wrongful death lawsuits to go to trial in the United States over alleged defects that caused some vehicles to unexpectedly...
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Oct 10 2013 // Professional athletes who spend most of their careers with teams in other states will be prohibited from filing workers’ compensation claims in California, under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.AB1309 will close a...
Oct 10 2013 // Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange announced that Farmers Insurance Exchange commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of its outstanding 8.625 percent surplus notes due...
Oct 10 2013 // Despite a little touch of some wetter and cooler weather, the 2013 wildfire season isn’t over, and the Western states in particular should be prepared for a few more potentially active months.That’s according...
Oct 8 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent, added Travis Campbell as a producer/broker based in San Diego, Calif. Campbell most recently held the position of wholesale broker at Sloan...
Oct 8 2013 // Toyota Motor Corp. must go to trial in federal court over a lawsuit blaming a Camry driver’s accident and injuries on design defects in the car that caused it to accelerate suddenly.U.S. District Judge James Selna in...
Oct 7 2013 // Unfair“This unfair consequence could devastate parts of Florida’s real estate market, stymie Florida’s economic recovery and diminish the state’s tax base.” —Florida Gov. Rick Scott urging...
Oct 7 2013 // California-based Confie Seguros named Darrin Silveria chief revenue officer.The national insurance broker focused on non-standard auto insurance and the Hispanic consumer created the new role to support the company’s...