Latest California Headlines
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California Jury Awards $3M for Catholic School Teacher in Wrongful-Termination Suit
Nov 2 2018 // A jury has awarded more than $3.5 million to a former Catholic school teacher who said the Archdiocese of Los Angeles fired her for being pregnant and unwed. City News Service reported that jurors deliberated for less than...
Power Customers in California File Claims in Pre-Emptive Wildfire Outage
Nov 2 2018 // A Northern California utility received 146 demands for reimbursement from customers who say Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s controversial decision to cut power to prevent wildfires hurt them economically. The...
Confie’s Rothberg Exits California-Based Nonstandard Auto Insurance Giant
Nov 1 2018 // Adios Mordy Rothberg. One of the men behind Confie Seguros, a nonstandard auto insurance giant with an emphasis on serving Hispanic consumers that has been on an agency buying spree since it started in 2008, is calling it...
Another California City Bans Electric Scooters
Nov 1 2018 // The growing pains of shared electric scooter businesses have led one Southern California city to take a wait-and-see approach. The Ventura City Council voted 5-0 this week night to ban scooters after a company called Bird...
California Utility Says Its Equipment Helped Spark Huge Fire
Nov 1 2018 // Southern California Edison said its equipment likely sparked one of two ignition points for the massive wildfire that tore through California’s central coast last year. Witnesses reported flames near the...
AIG Again Battered by Catastrophes But Reinsurance Lowers 3Q Net Loss
Oct 31 2018 // Catastrophe losses in Japan and North America pushed American International Group to a net loss of $1.3 billion for the third quarter of 2018, compared to a net loss of $1.7 billion in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted...
School District in California Settles Teacher Sex Suit for $5M
Oct 31 2018 // The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a student who was molested by a teacher when she was 13. It would be the largest payout the nation’s second-largest...
Weather, Wildfire Claims an Increasing Share of Home Insurance Losses
Oct 31 2018 // U.S homeowners insurers saw an increase in both the number of losses and the percentage of those losses that resulted from an extreme weather event during 2017. According to a LexisNexis Home Trends report, loss costs...
Waymo Cleared to be First in California for Testing Without Backup Driver
Oct 30 2018 // Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front seat, the state’s Department of...
Embracing Change Key to 100 Years for California-based Woodruff Sawyer
Oct 30 2018 // When encountering a centenarian one often asks their secret to longevity. Embrace change. That’s was the secret Andy Barrengos, CEO of Woodruff Sawyer, shot back to the question without hesitation. Barrengos, 54, is...
Mercury General in California Reported 3Q Income of $58.6M
Oct 30 2018 // Mercury General Corp. reported third-quarter net income of $58.6 million. On a per-share basis, the Los Angeles-based insurance carrier said on Monday it had profit of $1.06. Earnings, adjusted for investment costs, were...
2 Women Hospitalized After Balcony Collapses in Northern California
Oct 29 2018 // Authorities say two women were injured when the third-floor balcony of their San Francisco home collapsed. The San Francisco Fire Department reported the collapse happened early Saturday at a single-family home in the...
House Fire in California May Have Been Started by Blowtorch Used to Kill Spiders
Oct 26 2018 // Authorities say a man apparently set a California home on fire while using a blowtorch to kill spiders. KFSN-TV reported 29 firefighters were called to a Fresno housing development Tuesday night to put out a two-alarm...
Report: Workers’ Comp Medical Payments Fell in California After Reforms
Oct 25 2018 // Medical payments per claim with more than seven days of lost time in California decreased after the implementation of workers’ comp reform for claims with experience through March 2017, according to a recent study by...
Alliant Names Quinlan Senior Vice President in California
Oct 25 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Brendan Quinlan a senior vice president in its San Francisco, Calif., office. Quinlan was previously area senior vice president with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Quinlan is also...
Insurtech Pie’s Founder Talks About Entry into California Workers’ Comp Market
Oct 25 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Pie Insurance seems to be slicing its way through workers’ compensation markets in state after state. The Washington, D.C.-based insurtech is a direct provider of workers’ comp...
Lockton Names Byrne Risk Management and Benefits Consultant in California
Oct 23 2018 // Lockton has added Tom Byrne as a risk management and employee benefits consultant. Byrne is based in the San Francisco, Calif. office. He has more than 16 years of experience in the industry. Byrne worked as a client...
A.M. Best Upgrades Workers’ Comp Carrier ICW Group in California
Oct 23 2018 // A.M. Best Company has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating of San Diego, Calif.-based ICW Group Insurance Cos. to “A” (Excellent) from a “Stable” outlook. A.M. Best said its ratings reflect the...
Judge Upholds Bayer/Monsanto Roundup Cancer Liability But Slashes Award
Oct 23 2018 // Bayer AG failed to persuade a California state judge to set aside a jury’s verdict in the first trial over allegations that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer, but the judge said damages should be slashed to $78.6...
New Report Shows California’s Share of Payroll, Workers’ Comp
Oct 22 2018 // Californians accounted for 11.9 percent of all jobs covered by workers’ compensation in the U.S. in 2016, 13.9 percent of covered payroll and 19.6 percent of all cash and medical benefits paid for work injuries and...
