Latest California Headlines
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Arrowhead Launches Commercial Earthquake Program in California
Mar 7 2019 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency has launched Quake Assist — a commercial earthquake program designed to help protect California business owners. Quake Assist is underwritten by Falls Lake National Insurance Co.,...
SIU Managers in California Rebrands as EQ One
Mar 6 2019 // Earthquake insurance underwriter SIU Managers is now EQ One. The new name and brand was announced on the Los Angeles firm’s 20-year anniversary. EQ One is a difference in conditions underwriter, providing earthquake...
California Bills Would Add More Punch to Consumer Data Protection Law
Mar 6 2019 // Professionals in the cyber arena could find themselves quite busy in the near future with the possibility of California consumers gaining even more power to sue corporations for mishandling personal data under two recently...
Judge Orders PG&E Compliance With Fire-Safety Laws
Mar 6 2019 // A federal judge is requiring PG&E Corp. to abide by rules governing how the utility operates its power lines in California, seeking to reform what he described as “dismal” management that led to a series of...
Relation Insurance Acquires Villane Ward in California
Mar 5 2019 // Relation Insurance Services has acquired Villane Ward Insurance Services Inc. in Fresno, Calif. Terms for the deal were not disclosed. Villane Ward is a privately owned and operated employee benefits brokerage that...
Lo Retires as CFO of M.J. Hall & Co. in California, Succeeded by Terner
Mar 4 2019 // Stockton, Calif.-based M.J. Hall & Company Inc. announced that Patrick Lo, senior vice president and treasurer, retired on March 1. He is succeeded by Art Terner. Terner was previously the firm’s chief...
Opinion: California’s Wildfires Burn Our Climate Illusions
Mar 4 2019 // Joan Didion’s “Holy Water,” written in 1977, is a paean to the elaborate engineering that supplied her taps in Malibu and filled drinking glasses in Hollywood restaurants. At its heart is a warning: The...
InterWest Acquires Placer Insurance Agency in California
Mar 4 2019 // InterWest Insurance Services has acquired Placer Insurance Agency in Roseville, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Placer specializes in commercial, surety bonds, employee benefits and personal insurance...
NSAIDs Overtake Opioids as Top Workers’ Comp Drug in California
Mar 4 2019 // Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, or NSAIDs, have supplanted opioids as the most common therapeutic drug group prescribed to injured workers in California, according to a new California Workers’ Compensation...
AM Best Revises Status to Developing For California Capital Insurance Co. and Subsidiaries
Mar 4 2019 // AM Best has revised the implications of the under review status to developing from negative for the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” of...
California Department of Insurance Issues Cease and Desist Order for Benefits Firm
Mar 4 2019 // The California Department of Insurance issued a Cease and Desist Order to NexGen Insurance Services Inc., Riverstone Capital LLC (dba Riverstone Capital Insurance Services LLC) and its owner/operators Travis O. Bugli,...
Participants in $200M California Workers’ Comp Scheme Sentenced
Mar 4 2019 // Several conspirators involved in a massive workers’ comp kickback scheme were ordered in late February to serve prison sentences and pay millions in financial penalties for their roles in the corrupt payment of...
Northern California River Flooded 2,000 Buildings
Mar 1 2019 // A Northern California river flooded 2,000 homes, businesses and other buildings and left two communities virtual islands after days of stormy weather, officials said Wednesday. The towns of Guerneville and Monte Rio were...
California Charter School Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
Mar 1 2019 // Guidance Charter School, of Palmdale, Calif. will pay $8,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency...
California Insurance Agents Arrested for Stealing from Clients
Mar 1 2019 // Investigations by the California Department of Insurance led to the arrests of insurance agents who allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from clients and failed to place insurance coverage for those clients. Maria...
Wrongly Convicted California Man Gets $21M Settlement
Feb 28 2019 // The city of Simi Valley, Calif., has reached a $21 million settlement with a man wrongly imprisoned for nearly 40 years in the killing of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son. Some of that settlement is being paid by...
Storm Waters Flood, Cut off California Town
Feb 28 2019 // A California town north of San Francisco was accessible only by boat after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks inundated it overnight, authorities said Wednesday. “Guerneville is officially an island,”...
Filings Show PG&E Delayed Key Power Line Safety Overhaul
Feb 28 2019 // Shares of PG&E Corp fell about 3 percent after federal filings showed that the power utility had delayed a safety overhaul of a high-voltage transmission line, a prime suspect behind the deadliest wildfire in...
FBI Looking for Victims of Alleged Workers’ Comp Scheme Run by California Firm
Feb 27 2019 // The FBI is seeking to identify businesses that may be victims of an alleged nationwide workers’ compensation insurance, health care insurance, and pension plan fraud scheme. The FBI is urging businesses that...
Southern California Gas Leak Settlement Raises Stink
Feb 26 2019 // A stink is being raised over a $120 million court settlement from the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak and it’s not about money, but cow manure. Environmental groups have criticized a plan to put more...
