All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2012 // California environmental groups have filed a lawsuit protesting a decision to combat San Joaquin Valley smog by increasing automobile registration fees instead of fining industrial polluters. The lawsuit filed Friday in...
Oct 22 2012 // The Leavitt Group’s Bay Area office named Trisha Milazzo as a consultant in the employee benefits division. Milazzo has more than 10 years’ experience in the employee benefits field, with expertise in human...
Oct 22 2012 // After a review of a workers’ compensation overhaul bill signed in September by Gov. Jerry Brown, the Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau submitted a filing in early October to lower the pure premium advisory...
Oct 22 2012 // Dysfunctional. Inefficient, Ineffective. Slow. Partisan. Irrelevant. These are terms that regularly appear on editorial pages and political blogs to describe the California Legislature.It is true that when the Legislature...
Oct 22 2012 // By Don JerglerA report out this month from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute rates California’s workers’ comp system against 15 other states, and the report details several key improvements to...
Oct 22 2012 // Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and eight counts each of tax evasion and were ordered to pay...
Oct 22 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s board has voted for a 7 percent decrease in its 2013 rates, a move that reflects State Fund’s anticipated savings from a workers’ compensation reform...
Oct 19 2012 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Joe Dunn vice president of workers’ compensation claims in its Fresno, Calif. office.Dunn will be responsible for workers’ comp claims advocacy, and he will work with...
Oct 19 2012 // The city of Fresno, Calif., will be the first municipality in the United States to see whether “social impact bonds,” an innovative security that promotes a societal benefit, can be used to tackle a major...
Oct 18 2012 // A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill on Thursday, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones stood in a room full of risk professionals in the San...
Oct 18 2012 // Conservation groups are suing California’s oil and gas drilling regulators over hydraulic fracturing, charging officials with failing to properly study the practice’s environmental impacts.The lawsuit filed...
Oct 18 2012 // California regulators are investigating reports that CVS Caremark Corp. refilled prescriptions without patient consent, or insurance approval.The Los Angeles Times reported customers in California and other states...
Oct 18 2012 // SullivanCurtisMonroe named Christopher Warren as a property casualty consultant in its Irvine, Calif. office. Warren joins SCM from Georgetown Insurance Service Inc., where he was a business development associate. He has...
Oct 18 2012 // The Leavitt Group promoted Mark Niebuhr to senior vice president over the Captive and Alternative Risk Consulting Group and Bill Bergan vice president over the Construction & Surety Practice Group.Both posts are in The...
Oct 16 2012 // California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su filed a $1.6 million lawsuit in Monterey County Superior Court on Tuesday against a Greenfield farm labor contractor, Salvador Zavala Chavez, dba Zavala Farms, for multiple...
Oct 16 2012 // Corrosion that went unchecked – the suspected cause of a fire at Chevron Corp.’s Richmond, Calif. refinery in August – has been linked to a fire at the plant in October 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle is...
Oct 15 2012 // A worker died in an oven on Thursday at a Southern California plant that produces Bumble Bee tuna. Jose Melena, 62, was cooked to death in a steam oven at the Bumble Bee Foods processing plant in Santa Fe Springs, Calif....
Oct 15 2012 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Travis Bethune vice president of distribution management and services leader. Bethune will provide strategic and operational direction for the distribution and...
Oct 15 2012 // The vice mayor of a small Contra Costa County, California, city faces an uncertain future after he was found guilty of felony embezzlement of insurance premiums.Clayton Vice Mayor Joe Medrano is also an insurance broker...
Oct 14 2012 // The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a...