All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2012 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Dolores Glass as a principal in their San Ramon, Calif. construction practice. Glass will be responsible for expanding EPIC’s business with contractors and others in...
Nov 19 2012 // A Southern California insurance broker was arrested on allegations he overcharged Tom Hanks, musician ex-Police band member Andy Summers and others hundreds of thousands of dollars for insurance premiums. Broker Jerry B....
Nov 16 2012 // The board overseeing California’s efforts to establish an insurance marketplace for providing affordable health care approved its operational blueprint Wednesday, an essential step toward meeting a key deadline under...
Nov 15 2012 // Andrew G. Simpson, vice president of content for Wells Media Group Inc., recently grilled Surplus Lines Association of California Executive Director Benjamin McKay on an array of matters, including the market, new...
Nov 15 2012 // A former Carmel school teacher accuses school officials in a lawsuit of failing to accommodate her breastfeeding schedule.The Monterey Herald reported that Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle has sued the Carmelo School, where she...
Nov 15 2012 // A California prison doctor who was abruptly fired without explanation has won a $3.3 million wrongful termination lawsuit.The Fresno Bee reported Dr. Muhammad Anwar signed a state contract in 1990 to provide surgical...
Nov 14 2012 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services named Jose Cruz Jr. an account executive of Worker’s Compensation. Cruz, who will be headquartered in San Diego, will be responsible for brokering...
Nov 14 2012 // Worldwide Facilities Inc. named Chris Scheetz to its San Francisco, Calif. office as a property broker. Scheetz will assist in expanding the current property footprint for Worldwide Facilities’ San Francisco office....
Nov 13 2012 // Evacuations are underway in Daly City after several blocks were flooded and mudslides occurred in the area of the Northern California town, a local news outlets are reporting.The flooding was caused by a shear break of an...
Nov 8 2012 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based RGEB Employee Benefits named Michael Sakai to head the executive benefits department. The new executive benefits Department will focus on providing life, disability and long term care insurance...
Nov 8 2012 // Neil Alldredge has been searching for the unifying “theme” in the results of Nov. 6 state elections around the country but he says it has not been easy to identify one.As senior vice president for state and...
Nov 7 2012 // A Southern California insurance broker was arrested Wednesday on allegations he overcharged Tom Hanks, musician ex-Police band member Andy Summers and others hundreds of thousands of dollars for insurance premiums.Jerry B....
Nov 7 2012 // Update: Californians Lump Props. 32 and 33; a Referendum on the ‘B’ WordThe second automobile insurance persistency initiative put to Californians in the last two years was defeated. California’s...
Nov 6 2012 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Raintree Insurance Agency Inc., a San Bernardino, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm. Raintree will become part of the California operations of Hub International Insurance...
Nov 6 2012 // The Denali Fault earthquake only rumbled for about 3 minutes when it shook Interior Alaska a decade ago, but some of the reverberations of that powerful seismic event are still being felt today.The 7.9 magnitude quake,...
Nov 6 2012 // Cleveland, Ohio-based CBIZ Inc. has acquired the employee benefit division of Leavitt Pacific Insurance Brokers Inc. of Campbell, Calif. Leavitt Pacific Insurance provides employee benefits, retirement plan services, as...
Nov 5 2012 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Neil Willian as an account executive to its Northern California construction practice.Willian will provide client program leadership, including overall...
Nov 5 2012 // Attack, attack and attack again. That’s been the modus operandi of each side in the Proposition 33 campaign, an initiative on the California ballot that enables automobile insurance consumers to take the loyalty...
Nov 5 2012 // For the insurance industry, there is more at stake in the Nov. 6 election than who goes to or stays in the White House and Congress.The insurance industry will be watching who wins the gubernatorial races in 11 states,...
Nov 5 2012 // Reno, Nev.-based L/P Insurance Services Inc. named John Bolce managing shareholder of Northern California Operations. Bolce will be responsible for developing L/P Insurance Services’ Northern California division...