All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2013 // Forecasters are warning of an onset of gusty, dry conditions that will dramatically raise fire danger in large swaths of California as surface high pressure builds into the Pacific Northwest. In Southern California, the...
Oct 4 2013 // Stockton, Calif. and Assured Guaranty have reached an agreement to restructure more than $150 million of outstanding debt to help the city exit from bankruptcy, a top city official and the bond insurer said.Under the terms...
Oct 3 2013 // Ten months after “historic reforms” were made to California’s workers’ compensation system there is evidence that the changes are taking hold, however bad actors continue to find ways to game the...
Oct 1 2013 // The Obamacare insurance exchanges struggled to handle a flood of consumer interest that closed the U.S. website for much of the day, and caused start up delays for most of the marketplaces run by the states.In New York,...
Oct 1 2013 // A former utility worker has withdrawn a lawsuit that claimed San Diego Gas & Electric fired him after he complained that co-workers tied a noose to the back of his truck, used the N-word and posted racist photos in a...
Sep 30 2013 // BB&T Tanner Insurance Services named three staff members to its office in Pleasanton, Calif.Ken Clark was named director of risk control. Clark has more than 25 years of experience. Joe Williams was named vice...
Sep 27 2013 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Insco Dico Group for roughly $85 million, $7 million above its tangible book value, the company has announced.The acquisition is to be...
Sep 27 2013 // A federal lawsuit has been filed charging that a central California dried fruit producer subjected its female workers to ongoing sexual harassment.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Madera-based...
Sep 27 2013 // A Los Angeles County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Co. and the State of California in a lawsuit topping $7 million over fraudulent business and billing schemes by unlicensed medical and...
Sep 27 2013 // Der Manouel Insurance Group has named Kevin Frost as a commercial risk consultant, while Reggie Sadler has joined Der Manouel’s client services unit as loss control consultant. Both will work out of California. Frost...
Sep 25 2013 // A Superior Court judge has refused to set aside a ruling striking down a Los Angeles Police Department policy that made it easier for unlicensed drivers to keep their cars.Judge Terry Green ruled last month that the policy...
Sep 24 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones named Eric Weirich deputy commissioner of the enforcement branch of the California Department of Insurance.Weirich began with CDI as a detective with the fraud division in 1998....
Sep 24 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...
Sep 24 2013 // Networked Insurance Agents, an aggregator serving independent property/casualty agencies across the West, named four key management promotions in California.Scott Smith was made vice president and appointed to head of the...
Sep 24 2013 // NL Industries Inc. is one of five paint companies that presented closing arguments against a public-nuisance lawsuit by 10 California cities and counties seeking more than $1 billion to replace or contain lead paint in...
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Sep 23 2013 // Editor’s note: This is part of a series on insurance professionals in politics. This is a national series. Some of the articles focused on the Western U.S. region can be read in the pages of this issue of Insurance...
Sep 23 2013 // The reaction from an employers’ group to a suggested hike in California’s advisory workers’ compensation rates of nearly 7 percent was – surprisingly – cautiously optimistic.The insurer and public...