All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...