All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services named Andrew Petersen executive vice president of business development, Brad Perilman as chief financial officer and Taib Alaoui as business development manager for...
Jan 23 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named David Freeman director of property/casualty sales. Freeman, who will be based in San Diego, will oversee a team of client executives in San Diego, Orange County,...
Jan 23 2013 // A father suing Fresno County claims social workers in the central California region didn’t protect his 10-year-old son who was killed by his mother’s boyfriend.Trial begins Tuesday in Joseph Hudson’s...
Jan 22 2013 // A man who was sexually abused by a Boy Scouts camp counselor more than a decade ago in San Diego County has sued the organization and his abuser.City News Service says the man, who’s now 29, sued last week. He and...
Jan 18 2013 // Insurers directly contributed $29.4 billion to California’s 2010 gross state product, or for 1.6 percent of the state’s GSP, according to the report issued on Friday by the Insurance Information Network of...
Jan 18 2013 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has hired Tim Troester as vice president of entertainment and sports. Troester was formerly with US Risk Insurance Group Inc., and Hays Cos. NAS’ Entertainment and Sports...
Jan 17 2013 // A California study shows driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants would make streets safer.The Department of Motor Vehicles report says unlicensed drivers in the state, most of them illegal immigrants are nearly...
Jan 17 2013 // Solana Beach, Calif.-based Konecki Insurance Brokerage has combined operations with the Leavitt Group’s San Diego office. In the combined operations, John Konecki will serve as executive vice president in the...
Jan 17 2013 // A Chicago City Council committee has preliminarily approved settlements in two police misconduct cases that would cost the city nearly $33 million, including $22.5 million for a California woman that apparently would be...
Jan 16 2013 // David Brandeis has been named chief operating officer for Monterey, Calif.-based Strongwood Insurance Holdings, while Larry Oslie was promoted to executive vice president of business development and Laura Dubois was made...
Jan 16 2013 // Blue Cross of California is being sued over a new program that bars AIDS patients from using local pharmacies to get their medications.The group Consumer Watchdog sued the insurer last week in San Diego on behalf of a...
Jan 15 2013 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Kristina Keck to the firm’s employee benefits practice as an account executive for retirement plans. Keck will serve as a lead consultant in the capacity of...
Jan 14 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Janice Stanger an account executive on its Los Angeles benefits consulting team. As an account executive at EPIC, Stanger will provide client service leadership, including overall...
Jan 14 2013 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services named Janet Vreeland as a vice president in Southern California. Vreeland has more than 25 years of experience, and will focus on growing Burnham’s clientele in the Southern...
Jan 14 2013 // SullivanCurtisMonroe Insurance Services LLC named Gabriela Hernandez associate vice president in its benefits division in Southern California. Hernandez joins SCM from Willis. She has 25 years’ experience in the...
Jan 14 2013 // Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera’s company alleging the singer was negligent when she hired a faulty Learjet 25.The civil...
Jan 14 2013 // A new study suggests certain earthquake fault segments long thought to be stable may rupture and cause a mega-quake.That’s what happened during the 2011 magnitude-9 quake in Japan that triggered a tsunami and during...
Jan 14 2013 // Days after an oil tanker struck a San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower, the Coast Guard is calling for reconsideration of rules that allow large ships to sail in fog near the span in Northern California.The San Jose...
Jan 14 2013 // P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Rancho...
Jan 14 2013 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...