Latest California Headlines
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AmWINS Completes Acquisition of Networked Insurance Agents in California
May 1 2017 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Networked Insurance Agents, a California-based insurance aggregator specializing in the standard lines insurance segment. Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group is an independent wholesale...
Southern California Couple Who Charged Police with Racism Nabbed for Fraud
May 1 2017 // A Southern California couple who had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report. Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31, were...
California Jury Returns $454M Verdict in Hospital Gown Suit
May 1 2017 // Kimberly-Clark and its spinoff medical technology firm Halyard Health have been hit with $454 million in compensatory and punitive damages, after a federal jury found the companies misled California buyers about the...
Report Shows California Workers’ Comp Written Premium up in 2016
May 1 2017 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has completed its report on statewide workers’ comp insurer loss and premium experience through Dec. 31, 2016. The major findings of the WCIRB...
Former Mayor of California City Files Suit over Wife’s Ruptured Implants
May 1 2017 // Former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock is suing the city, claiming a sidewalk fall ruptured his wife’s breast implants. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Hedgecock and his wife contend the city was careless and...
Workers Injured at Facebook Construction Site in California
Apr 28 2017 // Authorities say work has halted at a Facebook building under construction after an equipment failure caused part of the structure to collapse, injuring two workers. KNTV reported two construction workers were injured after...
California Lawmakers Pondering Move to Dump Health Insurers
Apr 27 2017 // California lawmakers are considering an audacious proposal that would substantially remake the state’s health care system by eliminating insurance companies and guaranteeing coverage for everyone. The idea known as...
Regulators in California Hit PG&E with $8.3M Fine for Deadly Wildfire
Apr 27 2017 // Regulators say they have fined Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $8.3 million for failing to maintain a power line that sparked a massive blaze in Northern California that destroyed 549 homes and killed two people. The...
$11.4M Settlement from California Oxygen Equipment Supplier
Apr 27 2017 // A company in California’s Bay Area that sells home oxygen equipment has agreed to pay more than $11 million to settle allegations that it profited from filing false reimbursement claims with the government. The San...
Supreme Court Weighs Limiting Where Corporations Can Be Sued
Apr 26 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared poised to clamp down on where corporations can be sued, a potential setback for plaintiffs’ lawyers who strive to bring cases in courts and locales they consider...
AP Specialty’s Epstein Named by RIC as Vice President in California
Apr 25 2017 // RIC Insurance General Agency has named Michele Epstein as vice president of management and professional lines. She will be based in Chatsworth, Calif. and produce, enhance and expand these product offerings for RIC’s...
Small Quake Hits California Coast Near Santa Barbara
Apr 25 2017 // A small earthquake has rattled parts of the Southern California coast. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the magnitude-3.6 quake hit just before 11 a.m. Sunday about 3 miles east of Santa Barbara. A sheriff’s...
Cavignac & Associates in California Names Delmundo Account Administrator
Apr 24 2017 // San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Doneca Delmundo as an account administrator within the agency’s commercial department. Delmundo will provide support and assistance to the agency’s...
Everest Joins California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Governing Committee
Apr 24 2017 // The Everest National Insurance Co. has joined the Governing Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. The WCIRB Governing Committee is responsible for setting policy and overseeing...
Managers Made Errors in Handling California Dam Crisis
Apr 21 2017 // Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks: “This is not...
California University Settles Law School Dean Harassment Suit for $1.7M
Apr 20 2017 // The University of California’s governing board has agreed to a $1.7 million settlement that will be paid out over the next decade to an employee who accused the former dean of UC Berkeley’s law school of sexual...
Calexit Supporters End 2018 Bid for California Independence
Apr 19 2017 // Supporters of a long-shot bid to make California an independent nation have ended their effort to put it to a statewide vote next year, despite the extra interest it drew after last year’s election of Republican...
California Awards Contractor $275M Contract to Fix Troubled Dam
Apr 19 2017 // California water officials say they have awarded a contract to repair Oroville Dam’s two damaged spillways to a Nebraska construction company. The Department of Water Resources announced that Kiewit Corp. of Omaha...
Apple Soon Will Begin Road-Testing Self-Driving Car Software: Source
Apr 18 2017 // Apple Inc. will soon take its self-driving car software platform to public streets for the first time, a major step that gets the world’s largest technology company into a crowded race to reshape transportation. The...
California Company Recalls Vegetarian Snacks over Unlisted Peanuts
Apr 18 2017 // A Los Angeles-area company is voluntarily recalling one of its vegetarian snacks because it may contain trace amounts of unlisted peanuts. The firm, Beyond Meat, said in a release that peanuts were detected in some of its...
