Latest California Headlines
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Californians Bracing for Next Blackout After Massive Outage Ends
Oct 14 2019 // An unprecedented blackout that plunged millions of Californians into the darkness for days is over. And nobody can say when the next will hit. Even as PG&E Corp. declared an end to last week’s shutoffs – a...
California Export List Hearing for Surplus Lines Slated for November
Oct 11 2019 // Parametric earthquake coverage and terrorism coverage are among the potential items on the 2019 Export List hearing being held next month by the California Department of Insurance. Adding a risk or coverage to the export...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Releases Cost Monitoring Update on Reforms
Oct 11 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California this week issued a prospective estimate of the cost impact of Senate Bill 863, the sweeping workers’ comp reform bill signed into law in 2012. SB...
California Proposes Regulations to Enforce State Privacy Law
Oct 11 2019 // California proposed regulations Thursday that would give consumers more control over how businesses collect and manage their personal information, including requiring a “Do Not Sell My Info” link on...
Food Spoils, Businesses Close as California Power Outages Imposed
Oct 11 2019 // A California dentist canceled dozens of appointments and supermarkets tried to save rotting food on Thursday as electricity was cut to over 600,000 homes and workplaces in a second day of planned power outages to cut...
Wildfire Destroyed Dozens of Homes in Southern California
Oct 11 2019 // Burning trash dumped by a garbage truck caused a fire that by early Friday had destroyed dozens of homes in California’s Riverside County, fire officials said, as wildfires across the state led to power cuts for...
Cannabis Industry: More Regs Will Help Address Vaping Crisis
Oct 10 2019 // In the midst of a vaping crisis that has gripped the nation’s cannabis industry what is needed most right are more regulations. Believe it or not, that was a message from the industry itself. A group of expert...
Burnham Benefits in California Names Spear Vice President
Oct 10 2019 // Irvine, Calif. -based Burnham Benefits has named Margie Spear vice president. Spear has 14 years of industry experience. She previously worked in the benefits department at SeaTech Insurance Agency Inc./Pacific Unified...
More States Now Mandate Employee Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment
Oct 10 2019 // Two years into the #MeToo movement, an unprecedented number of American workers are required to receive mandatory sexual harassment training, the result of a handful of new state regulations aimed at creating safer...
Millions in Northern, Central California Lose Electricity to Mitigate Wildfire Risks
Oct 10 2019 // California utility giant PG&E Corp. expanded the biggest blackout that has ever been orchestrated to prevent wildfires with a second round of shutoffs in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The company told reporters late...
Valiant in California Names Rentis Account Manager
Oct 9 2019 // Valiant Insurance Services in California has named Jennifer Rentis an account manager. Rentis’ role entails brokering new business, servicing the renewal book and managing internal procedures. She will also be...
Utility Looking into Cause Of Oktoberfest Explosions in Southern California
Oct 8 2019 // Utility crews are working to determine what caused explosions in an underground electrical vault that injured five people and sent flames into the sky during a Southern California Oktoberfest celebration. Officials said...
PG&E Could Cut Power to Hundreds of Thousands of Californians over Wildfire Fears
Oct 8 2019 // Pacific Gas & Electric officials on Tuesday announced plans to cut off power to some 600,000 Northern California customers as a wildfire safety precaution. The outages are expected to begin early Wednesday depending on...
California Wildfire Victims in PG&E Bankruptcy See $13.5B in Claims
Oct 8 2019 // A lawyer for the committee representing wildfire victims in the bankruptcy of PG&E Corp said at a hearing on Monday that the committee sees $13.5 billion as the cost to the power provider for paying claims of the...
Man Sentenced to 2 Years for $250K Insurance Fraud Scheme in California
Oct 7 2019 // Kenneth X. Huang, 41, was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay $259,594 in restitution over a reported fraud scheme involving insurance in California. A...
Hub Acquires Assets of California-Based LBE Insurance Services
Oct 7 2019 // HUB International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Chatsworth, Calif.-based LBA Insurance Services Inc. Lior Avishay, president of LBA, and his colleagues will be joining Hub in Los Angeles. Terms of the deal were not...
Retrial for Founder in California Warehouse Fire That Killed 36
Oct 7 2019 // The founder of an artists’ work-live collective in the San Francisco Bay Area where a fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers three years ago will be tried again on manslaughter charges, prosecutors said...
Supreme Court Rejects Sempra’s Bid to Recover $379M from 2007 California Wildfire Payouts
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas & Electric Co to recover $379 million from customers related to damages it was forced to pay out in litigation after the...
Update on Lawsuits Targeting Vaping; Litigation Expected to Grow
Oct 7 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking, have been reported by U.S. health agency. Lawsuits on behalf of young...
People & Places
Oct 7 2019 // National Credit and political risk insurance brokerage specialist BPL Global has appointed Donnie DiCarlo as executive vice president. He will be based in New York and is charged with expanding BPL’s client base in...
