All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley, California, zip-line attraction implemented required safety...
Mar 18 2022 // A jury has awarded $85 million in the death of a man who was restrained by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2015.The federal jury on Tuesday found for the family in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit...
Mar 17 2022 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund on Thursday announced plans to distribute a roughly $55 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31,...
Mar 17 2022 // ALKEME acquired VPIS Financial Services in Ladera Ranch, California. VPIS is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and corporate retirement services. ALKEME is also based in Ladera Ranch, and is...
Mar 17 2022 // Increasingly large and dangerous wildfires are being driven by the effects of climate change and more building in the wildland-urban interface, and while that notion may not be entirely new, the scope of the increase laid...
Mar 17 2022 // The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3.8 million to the family of a man who died after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him with stun gun seven years ago.Relatives of Brian Pickett alleged in a...
Mar 17 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services named Kerstin VanZanten vice president within its employee benefits group.VanZanten is based in Orange County, California. VanZanten’s background includes experience in benefits...
Mar 17 2022 // Gravitas Insurance Group, an insurance brokerage in Los Angeles, California, designed exclusively to serve the music and business management communities, was launched this week by John Tomlinson. Tomlinson previously...
Mar 16 2022 // M.J. Hall & Co. is now offering directors and officers liability, employment practices liability and fiduciary liability insurance coverages to cannabis companies and their executives through an admitted product in...
Mar 15 2022 // Woodruff Sawyer named John Neuhalfen director of operations in commercial lines.Neuhalfen will be based in the San Francisco, California office. He spent 15 years at Chubb, where he was most recently a regional vice...
Mar 14 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday issued a notice to all insurance companies doing business in the state to review their financial holdings and take immediate steps to identify and divest from any...
Mar 14 2022 // ALKEME acquired JB Wright Insurance Services in Chino, California. JB Wright operates in all 50 states, and it specializes in personal and commercial lines. Ladera Ranch, California based ALKEME is backed by GCP Capital...
Mar 14 2022 // A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley, California, zip-line attraction implemented required safety...
Mar 11 2022 // The pilot of a police helicopter desperately tried to keep flying before crashing into the ocean off Southern California last month, killing another officer, investigators said in a preliminary report Wednesday.Two...
Mar 10 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved increases in the limits of coverage to the California FAIR Plan Association’s commercial programs offered to businesses, no later than May 1.Lara’s action...
Mar 10 2022 // A Northern California pesticide spraying company was negligent on at least five occasions its helicopter pilots allowed the toxic chemicals to drift onto neighboring orchards, children playing soccer and a woman standing...
Mar 10 2022 // A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the...
Mar 9 2022 // EPIC has added Juliet Lucero in Newport Beach, California.Lucero will work with schools to identify the benefits strategies to meet short-term and long-term goals, while establishing programs to address the needs of school...
Mar 8 2022 // ALKEME acquired Chergey Insurance in Thousand Oaks, California. Chergey Insurance offers services including workers’ compensation, property, general liability, and commercial auto. ALKEME is brokerage operating in 50...
Mar 7 2022 // Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching power lines in gale...