All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2013 // On-demand ride services got the green light from California regulators on Thursday in a move the services hope will help clarify their legal status in other jurisdictions.The California Public Utilities Commission created...
Sep 18 2013 // Carrollton, Texas–based Insurance Technologies Corp. announced the release in California of its web-based comparative TurboRater in California. Independent insurance agents can use the insurance rating system it to...
Sep 18 2013 // An 85-year-old man who lost part of his leg after a public bus hit him in a Southern California crosswalk settled a lawsuit Monday for $15 million – just before a jury reached a verdict that would have given him even...
Sep 17 2013 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services named two new members to its staff. New hires Laurel McClay, senior account executive, and Michele M. Dang, account executive, were hired to support the firm’s growth and expansion...
Sep 17 2013 // Property/casualty aggregator Networked Insurance Agents announced today that a small group of individual investors has acquired the company from Strongwood Holding Company LLC. George Biancardi, president and CEO, led the...
Sep 16 2013 // A Clovis, Calif. hospital and doctor are defending themselves against a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who bled to death after a common surgery.The family of 40-year-old Nicole Caruso filed the medical-malpractice...
Sep 16 2013 // To get the driver’s licenses they’ve long sought, immigrants living in California illegally will have to do something many have long resisted: publicly identify themselves.The driver’s license bill that...
Sep 16 2013 // The California Legislature has approved a bill that would require the development of an earthquake early-warning system similar to what exists in Japan, Mexico and other quake-prone countries.The bill was sent to Gov....
Sep 13 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...
Sep 13 2013 // When it comes to mixing insurance and politics Congressman John Garamendi, D-California, can be considered an authority on the topic.While Garamendi never served professionally in the insurance industry, after the...
Sep 13 2013 // Fire officials say crews assessing the damage from a Northern California wildfire have determined 68 homes were destroyed.That’s up from the earlier tally of 37. State fire information officer Roy Del Carlo said...
Sep 12 2013 // Although California Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, R-Rocklin, married into the insurance business, it seems to run in her blood, because it’s her blood that boils when she feels small businesses are being attacked by...
Sep 12 2013 // Limousines that operate in California would be required to have emergency exits under legislation approved by the state Assembly in the wake of several limousine fire deaths. Democratic Sen. Ellen Corbett of San Leandro...
Sep 11 2013 // USI Insurance Services has hired Sean Reardon as a property/casualty broker. Reardon will be working out of USI’s office in Woodland Hills, Calif. He has 10 years of experience of commercial underwriting experience...
Sep 11 2013 // Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance and benefits brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, launched a new professional practices group concentrated in California. The group specializes in providing...
Sep 11 2013 // When it comes to mixing insurance and politics, the two might as well be one in the same for California Assemblyman Ken Cooley.Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, started his career in the 1970s working on earthquake issues with a...
Sep 10 2013 // Michael P. Golden has joined Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund as a strategic relationship manager.Golden will be responsible for building and strengthening our relationships and results with global brokers. Most...
Sep 10 2013 // PG&E Corp., owner of California’s largest utility, said it will settle “substantially all” remaining personal injury and property damage claims from a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that killed...
Sep 10 2013 // From agent to politician, state Sen. Ted Gaines wants back in the insurance business – this time as the state’s top regulator of the industry.Gaines, R-Roseville, recently announced he’s running for...
Sep 9 2013 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Matthew Slotkin vice president of new business development in the Woodland Hills, Calif. office. Slotkin has several years of executive recruitment experience and has...