All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 31 2013 // Brookdale Lodge owner Sanjiv Kakkar, 52, was sentenced to 364 days in jail and three years of probation after pleading no contest for two felony counts including insurance premium fraud and failing to maintain...
Oct 30 2013 // A jury has awarded more than $150 million in damages to a 13-year-old girl who watched her family burn to death in a fiery crash on a Southern California freeway.“It’s hard for her to comprehend” the...
Oct 30 2013 // Todd Hergesell has joined Barney & Barney LLC in Aliso Viejo, Calif.Hergesell will work with a team of professionals offering commercial property/casualty insurance, employee benefits, workers compensation,...
Oct 29 2013 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed the “A” rating on California Earthquake Authority’s outstanding fixed-rate revenue bonds, which mature on July 1, 2016. Fitch has also affirmed CEA’s Issuer Default Rating...
Oct 29 2013 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation announced a carve-out agreement between seven Southern California United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local unions, Vons and Super A Foods. The agreement covers an...
Oct 28 2013 // ISU Francis-Pinney Insurance Services Inc. named Tom Bone to the title of risk insurance advisor. Bone will continue to work with his existing clients and develop new relationships with employers, and he will lead a team...
Oct 28 2013 // Family members of the victims of a fatal Bay Area limousine fire in California have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against six different companies.The San Francisco Chronicle reported the lawsuit claims the companies were...
Oct 25 2013 // A Fresno County woman who says she suffered second-degree burns when she spilled hot coffee on her lap at the drive-up window of a McDonald’s has filed suit against the fast-food chain.The Fresno Bee reported...
Oct 24 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones awarded $32 million in grants to district attorneys across 36 counties in the state to combat workers’ compensation fraud. The grants, funded through employer assessments,...
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...