All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2013 // Hub International Insurance Services named Viesha Treadwell senior vice president of their San Francisco Commercial Division.Treadwell will be responsible for business development and sales. Treadwell and her team will be...
Jul 15 2013 // Consumer groups are worried that California’s uninsured could fall victim to fraud, identity theft or other crimes by some of the very people who are supposed to help them.More than 21,000 enrollment counselors will...
Jul 12 2013 // It was a doozy.Flying, biting killer sharks literally whipped into a frenzy by freak tornadoes wreaked havoc on Los Angelenos. The catastrophe played out on the Syfy Channel on Thursday night, lighting up Twitter as the...
Jul 12 2013 // United Valley Insurance Services and Leavitt Group Enterprises have agreed to a merger, giving the two firms a collective 150 insurance agencies and counting under one owner.The deal was announced late Friday. Under the...
Jul 12 2013 // San Bernardino should be allowed to stay in bankruptcy, bond insurer Ambac Assurance Co. and a bondholder owed $50 million said in court papers opposing other creditors’ efforts to strip the California city of...
Jul 11 2013 // The California Department of Insurance announced a settlement with Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois over what CDI alleged was improper use of workers’ compensation insurance...
Jul 10 2013 // Christine Baker, director of the Department of Industrial Relations, on Wednesday approved the implementation of the 2013/14 Alternative Security Program, which Baker said frees up $7.7 billion in capital that provides...
Jul 10 2013 // Pleasanton, Calif.-based One Risk Group LLC named Sue Wakamoto-Lee vice president in its employee benefits practice. At One Risk Group, Wakamoto-Lee will be responsible for client services and business development. Her...
Jul 10 2013 // California workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a second farmworker as possibly heat-related.The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health said on Monday that a 37-year-old farmworker...
Jul 10 2013 // “Catch me if you can.”San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Wanda Podgurski sent that taunting tweet after skipping trial in January while facing charges of insurance fraud. But then...
Jul 7 2013 // Tropical Storm Chantal strengthened as it moved west across the Atlantic toward the Lesser Antilles, including the islands of Martinique and Saint Lucia, on a track that may take it east of Florida, the U.S. National...
Jul 3 2013 // Data breaches put the personal information of 2.5 million people in the California at risk, according to a report released Monday.State Attorney General Kamala Harris released the report showing 131 breaches of consumer...
Jul 3 2013 // A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he cannot speak has been awarded $58 million for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in.Antonio Lopez Chaj (CHAI) appeared at a...
Jul 2 2013 // Jason Molnar makes a living deep in the trenches of workers’ compensation battles in California, so you’d think when there was a no show from an opponent at an official lien hearing that he’d be relieved...
Jul 2 2013 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is reducing rates for the California Low Cost Auto Insurance Program (CLCA) for the second year in a row. With annual premiums starting between $226 and $338, the program helps...
Jul 2 2013 // Real estate data provider CoreLogic is buying Marshall & Swift/Boeckh and DataQuick Information Solutions for $661 million, helping to broaden its property/casualty insurance services and add to its existing property...
Jul 1 2013 // The Leavitt Group’s Concord, Calif. office named Paul Cardoso as an account executive in the employee benefits division. Cardoso comes has a background in sales and has worked for various Fortune 500 companies,...
Jul 1 2013 // La Crescenta, Calif.-based Monarch E & S Insurance named Stefanie McLeod assistant vice president of personal lines heading up the personal liability division. McLeod has been with Monarch for nearly 11 years. Before...
Jul 1 2013 // Sacramento, CA, 7/1/13 – iUnlimited announced today that Marni Wood joined the iUnlimited Investigative Services team serving the Northern California area out of their Sacramento office as an experienced Investigations...
Jun 28 2013 // A new study says thousands of low-paid California workers were cheated out of money they won against employers who broke the law.The report, to be released Thursday, says many companies escaped judgment by dissolving and...