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Topa in California Names Fabela President of Dorchester
Jan 2 2018 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group announced that Jim Schallert, president of Dorchester Insurance Co., retired effective Dec. 31, 2017. Theresa Fabela has assumed the role as president of Dorchester. Fabela...
JLT Specialty Names Morgenstein Senior Vice President in California
Jan 2 2018 // JLT Specialty USA has named Art Morgenstein senior vice president. Based in Los Angeles, Calif., Morgenstein will be primarily responsible for client servicing and growth initiatives in the West. Morgenstein has more than...
New Year Brings Pot Legalization to California
Jan 2 2018 // The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the state was the first to allow pot for medical use. The nation’s...
RightSure Acquires Auto & Property Insurance Solutions in California
Jan 2 2018 // RightSure Insurance Group has acquired California-based Auto & Property Insurance Solutions. Auto & Property Insurance Solutions is RightSure’s 14th book of business acquisition. Auto & Property Insurance...
California Company Has Marijuana License, But Its Workers Still Arrested
Dec 29 2017 // The confusing rollout of marijuana regulations in California has been underscored in Mendocino County, where local authorities licensed a company to deliver pot only to have state police arrest two employees who were...
Top Insurance Journal West Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // Trade secrets and Hippos, lawsuits and tragedies. The news for 2017 didn’t seem to be dominated by a single trend or sole event, but in an ever-fractured media world that must try and cater to short attention spans...
2017 ‘One of Worst’ for U.S. Weather with 15 Events Costing $1 Billion or More
Dec 29 2017 // In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature: a...
Pot-Infused Fare from Wine to Tacos on California’s Menu
Dec 28 2017 // The sauvignon blanc boasts brassy, citrus notes, but with one whiff, it’s apparent this is no normal Sonoma County wine. It’s infused with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that provides the...
California Couple Used Drone to Deliver Drugs, Police Say
Dec 28 2017 // Authorities say a Southern California couple used a drone to deliver illegal drugs to their customers. Benjamin Baldassarre and Ashley Carroll, of Riverside, were charged with possessing controlled substances for sale and...
USGS: Pair of Quakes Rattled Central California
Dec 28 2017 // The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a pair of minor earthquakes just a few hours apart rattled the San Jose area in central California. The Mercury News of San Jose, citing the USGS, reported a 3.1 magnitude quake...
Sugary Sports Beans, Uber Divorce Claims Among Chamber’s ‘Most Ridiculous’ Lawsuits of 2017
Dec 28 2017 // A lawsuit by a woman claiming she was deceived about the amount of sugar in an exercise supplement called Sport Beans tops the list of what a top U.S. business lobby sees as the “most ridiculous” lawsuits of...
Ascension in California Names Lopez President of Employee Benefits Division
Dec 27 2017 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. has named Keri Lopez president of employee benefits. Lopez will build Ascension’s employee benefits market presence nationally. She has 19 years of employee...
California Reports 2016 Fatal Occupational Injuries Down
Dec 27 2017 // The California Department of Industrial Relations is reporting that 376 Californians died on the job in 2016, down slightly from the 388 deaths in 2015. A review of the past 12 years indicates that workplace fatalities in...
Unions Sees Worker Growth Potential in California’s Marijuana Industry
Dec 27 2017 // Unions have caught a whiff of a rare opportunity to organize a whole new set of workers as recreational marijuana becomes legal in California. The United Farm Workers, Teamsters and United Food and Commercial Workers are...
Court in California Rules Novartis Can Be Sued Over Generic Drug Injuries
Dec 22 2017 // California’s top court has opened the door for consumers to sue Novartis AG and other makers of brand-name pharmaceutical products over injuries blamed on generic versions of the drugs manufactured by other...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends 16 Medical Providers
Dec 22 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended 16 more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
California Commissioner Asks Insurers to Forego Detailed Home Inventories in Wake of Wildfires
Dec 21 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is asking insurers to help California wildfire survivors by providing relief from detailed home inventories and to provide up to 100 percent of contents coverage limits without...
Microsoft Wants to Pit AI Against Climate Change
Dec 21 2017 // Red and green make yellow. And depending on how one feels about climate change, it could be considered a cautionary tale for the U.S. that China plans to create the world’s largest carbon market, possibly making it...
A.M. Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of California Capital and Subsidiaries
Dec 20 2017 // A.M. Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a-” from “a” of California Capital Insurance Co. and its wholly...
Answer Financial in California Names Smith Director of Business Development
Dec 19 2017 // Encino, Calif.-based Answer Financial has named Kevin Smith director of business development. Smith will report to Tom Capp, senior vice president of business development. Smith has more than 25 years of experience within...
