Latest California Headlines
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The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Partners with Northern California-based M.B. McGowan & Associates Insurance Agency
Sep 24 2019 // Los Angeles, CA, September 24th, 2019 — The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers announced today a partnership with M.B. McGowan & Associates of Novato, CA. M.B. McGowan & Associates is an independent insurance...
Liberty Company in California Names Caswell Director of Information Technology
Sep 23 2019 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Roy Caswell executive vice president and director of information technology. Caswell started in the insurance industry in 1992 working at American...
PG&E Attacks Plan for Paying California Wildfire Victims Before Insurers
Sep 23 2019 // PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility because the proposal would pay fire victims who lost their homes ahead of insurance companies and...
Watchdog Asks California Attorney General to Investigate Insurance Commissioner
Sep 23 2019 // Consumer Watchdog has written California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the District Attorneys of Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles counties, calling for an investigation of money laundering and bribery...
Dive Boat, Ghost Ship Fires in California a Lesson in Proving Negligence
Sep 23 2019 // One was a ship in name only, an artist commune set up in an Oakland warehouse. The other was a bona fide boat afloat on the ocean off Santa Barbara. Both became fiery death traps for a combined 70 souls, two of the worst...
C3 Risk & Insurance Services Acquiring Mission West in California
Sep 23 2019 // C3 Risk & Insurance Services has acquired Mission West Insurance, an Orange County, Calif.-based insurance brokerage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mission West is an independent agency offering business,...
Music Copyright Law in Search of New Standard for Infringement
Sep 23 2019 // Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.” It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs...
How Forested Communities Are Trying to Adapt to Growing Wildfire Threat
Sep 23 2019 // Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, as she has six days a week for the last seven years. But she delivers less mail these days as California’s...
Former California Adjuster Hit With 180-day Sentence for Stealing $130K
Sep 20 2019 // Former licensed public adjuster John Schoon, 54, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was sentenced to 180 days in county jail and five years of felony probation after pleading guilty to three felony counts of embezzlement and one...
Transgender Man Can Sue Catholic Hospital Over Hysterectomy
Sep 20 2019 // A California transgender man can go ahead with a discrimination lawsuit against a Catholic hospital that canceled his hysterectomy, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal in San...
California Now Looking for Ways to Preserve Environmental Clout
Sep 20 2019 // The Trump administration’s decision to stop California from setting its own emission standards for cars and trucks would undermine the state’s ability to convince the world’s largest automakers that they...
Re/insurers Rethink Climate Change Risks as Losses Grow from Wildfires, Floods, Hail
Sep 20 2019 // By the time David Kaisel got back from selling his flour at a farmers’ market, a wildfire in California’s Capay Valley had burnt both his tractor and the shipping container where he kept some tools. His insurer...
Consumer Watchdog: California Commissioner’s Calendar Suggests He Made Contact in ‘Pay to Play’
Sep 19 2019 // Calendar entries and documents show that California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, not his fundraiser, made first contact with an agent of a workers’ compensation insurance company offering political support in...
California Retailer to Pay $1.2M to Settle Sex-Assault Claims
Sep 19 2019 // A Northern California store as agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle claims that a supervisor sexually assaulted employees in a walk-in freezer. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced a...
California Spending $20M on Campaign to Warn Public of Vaping Dangers
Sep 18 2019 // California will spend $20 million on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping nicotine and cannabis products and step up efforts to halt the sale of illicit products amid a rise in vaping-related...
Cover in California Names Mercury’s Houlihan Chief Insurance Officer
Sep 18 2019 // Cover in San Francisco, Calif., has named Robert Houlihan chief insurance officer. He becomes part of the management team in the company’s U.S. headquarters. Houlihan has more than 20 years of industry experience. He...
PG&E Tells Fire Safety Critics Utility is Going Beyond Call of Duty
Sep 18 2019 // PG&E Corp. sought to assure a judge it’s making progress on fire prevention, saying it’s exceeding regulatory requirements to clear vegetation from power lines. Kevin Orsini, a lawyer for the utility, on...
California Workers’ Comp 2020 Temporary Total Disability Rates to Rise
Sep 17 2019 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has announced that the 2020 minimum and maximum temporary total disability rates will increase on Jan. 1, 2020. The minimum TTD rate will increase from $187.71 to...
Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in California Names Lalsa Chief Financial Officer
Sep 17 2019 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in Woodland Hills, Calif., has named Megvarran Lalsa chief financial officer. Megvarran has 20 years of experience in accounting and finance. Megvarran previously worked at Venbrook...
Gall Named CEO of Texas’ Tricolor Insurance
Sep 17 2019 // Archie Gall has been named CEO of Tricolor Insurance, an affiliate company of Dallas-based Tricolor, a used vehicle retailer focused on the Hispanic consumer market. Tricolor Insurance, a provider of insurance for subprime...
