Latest California Headlines
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California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Feb 17 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
California Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Allow Later Last Call Times
Feb 17 2017 // Closing times at bars in California could go later if proposed legislation there gets passed. The bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco, would let municipalities set their own...
Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Cartwright Practice Leader
Feb 17 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Darren Cartwright claims auditing and consulting practice leader. Cartwright will be responsible for the direction of the claims group, which provides claims...
What Happens if Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement?
Feb 16 2017 // Dam climate change. An opinion piece in the New York Times is offering a tie-in between global warming and the potential disaster unfolding at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. “After five years of...
Hacker Convicted in California of Breaking into More Than 100K Amex Accounts
Feb 16 2017 // A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif. has convicted a hacker accused of breaking into more than 100,000 of American Express accounts and handing off funds to Russia. The Sacramento Bee reported that 37-year-old Mihran...
Wholesale Trading Insurance Names Kiley Managing Director in California
Feb 16 2017 // Wholesale Trading Insurance Services LLC in San Francisco, Calif. has named Chris Kiley managing director and property broker. Kiley has more than 20 years of property broking and underwriting with expertise in real estate...
CoreLogic: $13.3B in Reconstruction at Risk in Northern California Dam Failure
Feb 15 2017 // Roughly 50,047 single- and multi-family residential homes could be damaged with an estimated reconstruction cost value of $13.3 billion if the Oroville Dam in California were to fail completely, according to new data...
Report: California’s Central Coast Accounting for More of State’s Comp Claims
Feb 15 2017 // California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a new report issued today shows. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has...
8 Cars Burn, 7 People Treated after Parking Fire at California’s Disneyland
Feb 15 2017 // A fire broke out in Disneyland’s main parking structure that burned eight cars and caused seven people to be treated for smoke inhalation, authorities said. No foul play was suspected but authorities haven’t...
Flood Concerns Dismissed by Dam Managers California 12 Years Ago
Feb 15 2017 // Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a major Northern California dam – the very scenario that threatened to unfold over the...
EPIC Names Frugoli Vice President in Health Care Group in California
Feb 14 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Adam Frugoli vice president of its health care strategy group. He will divide his time between EPIC’s Idaho Falls, Idaho and Sacramento, Calif., offices. Frugoli...
Palomar Specialty Launches Residential Flood Program in California
Feb 14 2017 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. has launched Flood Guard, a private flood program in California that uses an advanced and granular proprietary rating system. Palomar used catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s...
California Court Says Commissioner Can Prohibit Pass Thru of Advertising Costs
Feb 13 2017 // A California Court of Appeal had decided in favor of California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in a case against Mercury Insurance Co. and a coalition of insurance industry groups, which sued Jones to challenge his...
Trump Labor Chief Nominee Puzder Dodges Disability Bias Suit for Now
Feb 13 2017 // Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, the controversial business leader expected to undergo a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing next week, will be spared an emotionally weighted and concurrent discrimination trial against...
California Earthquake Authority Promotes Coombes, Schneider
Feb 10 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has named Todd Coombes chief insurance and technology officer. The CEA also named Kellie Schneider chief operations officer. The moves follow the retirement at the end of January of Bob...
Officials Visited California Warehouse Before Deadly Fire, Records Show
Feb 10 2017 // Police officers responded to complaints of a raucous “rave” at a California warehouse illegally used as an entertainment venue and residence two years before a late-night fire at the venue killed 36 partygoers,...
Labor Nominee’s California Company Wins Discrimination Trial Delay
Feb 10 2017 // Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, the controversial business leader expected to undergo a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing next week, will be spared an emotionally weighted and concurrent discrimination trial against...
California Chiropractor And Staff Charged With Insurance Fraud
Feb 9 2017 // A California chiropractor was arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court on Wednesday on eight felony counts of insurance fraud for his alleged role in a fraud scheme billing health and auto insurers for treatment services...
Former Students at California School Sue over Asbestos Fear
Feb 8 2017 // A judge has cleared the way for dozens of former student’s in California’s Central Valley to take their school district to trial over fears that a job-training program exposed them to cancer. Attorney Allen...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Lewis & Associates in California
Feb 8 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Lewis & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. in Visalia, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. James Smallwood, Kevin Veitia and their associates will continue to operate...
