Latest California Headlines
All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Allen Practice Leader
Feb 8 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Norman Allen corporate executive protection practice leader. Norman will be responsible for providing vision and focus for the practice, which includes...
40 Suspects Are Part of Family Auto Fraud Ring in California
Feb 7 2017 // California Department of Insurance detectives and investigators with the Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force today arrested seven suspects, charged an additional 22 who are self-surrendering, and are still seeking 11 more...
Transgender Veteran Settles California Suit over Being Denied A Haircut
Feb 7 2017 // A Riverside County, Calif. transgender Army veteran has settled a lawsuit against a Rancho Cucamonga barbershop that refused to cut women’s hair. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. The Press-Enterprise...
RIC Insurance Names Campbell Senior E&S Broker in California
Feb 7 2017 // RIC Insurance General Agency has named Travis Campbell as a senior broker to expand its excess and surplus division. Campbell will be working primarily with retail insurance agents in the California counties of Orange, San...
Educational Conference in California to Address ‘State of the Industry’
Feb 6 2017 // What the final two years of California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will entail is among the topics to be discussed during a conference in Southern California in March. The WIAA Education and Research Foundation will...
California Jury Awards $1.25M in School Bathroom Break Suit
Feb 6 2017 // A jury has awarded $1.25 million to a former San Diego, Calif., high schooler who was denied a bathroom break and forced to urinate in a bucket. The girl, then 14, used the bucket in a Patrick Henry High School supply room...
California-Based Sierra Nevada Issues 36-State Recall of Select Beers
Feb 6 2017 // California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall on Jan. 22 of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPAs and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break off...
E&S Market Continues to See Growth in Premium: Texas Stamping Office
Feb 6 2017 // Overall, 2016 ended on a positive note for the U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance industry, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). Nationally, nearly $26 billion in surplus lines insurance...
Auto Insurance Fraud Ring in California Busted
Feb 3 2017 // The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced a major auto insurance fraud ring takedown, which was operating in San Diego County. Nine defendants were...
Report: Self-Driving Prototypes Getting Better at Navigating California Streets
Feb 3 2017 // Self-driving car prototypes appear to be getting better at negotiating California streets and highways without a human backup driver intervening, according to data made public by California transportation regulators. The...
EPIC Acquires Benefit Compass in Southern California
Feb 3 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has acquired Benefit Compass Insurance Services LLC, a specialist in employee benefits brokerage and consulting services in Irvine, Calif. Benefit Compass provides employee benefit...
EPIC in California Names Bergstrom VP in Golf Insurance Services
Feb 2 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Bill Bergstrom to lead the operations and growth initiatives of its golf insurance services program. He will be based in EPIC’s Sacramento, Calif. office and report to...
Transit Operator in Northern California OKs $1M Settlement
Feb 2 2017 // Bay Area Rapid Transit has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the agency of violating waste and hazardous-materials laws. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the transit agency agreed to...
2 California School Districts Will Settle Teacher Sex Case for $5M
Feb 2 2017 // Two California school districts will pay most of a roughly $5 million settlement to a girl who was sexually abused by a former high school teacher. Jeremy Monn is serving a seven-year sentence after being convicted in 2015...
As Super Bowl Approaches a Former NBA Player Reflects on Cumulative Injury
Feb 2 2017 // Most of us who sit down with our beverages and snacks to watch one of the biggest events in pro sports on Sunday won’t have things like workers’ compensation and cumulative injury on our minds. Just Brady vs....
PPIB in California Promotes Rogers and Le to Underwriter Posts
Feb 1 2017 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage of Novato, Calif. has promoted Joanna Rogers and Khanh Le to the position of underwriter. Rogers has been with PPIB for three years learning underwriting and serving as executive...
Research Shows California Homeowners Lack Understanding of Retrofitting
Feb 1 2017 // A new study on California homowners shows a general awareness of earthquakes and other natural hazards, but that those owners did not necessarily take action to mitigate risks, and many didn’t know whether their home...
Homes in California’s Hollywood Hills Hit by Mud, Debris Flow
Feb 1 2017 // The backyard of a Hollywood Hills, Calif. home has crumbled, sending mud and debris down a hill, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erick Scott says the...
California High Court Gives Insurance Commissioner Vast New Powers
Feb 1 2017 // President Donald Trump’s spate of executive orders has jump-started a national debate about the wisdom of executive edicts, especially those that stray into the area of lawmaking. While presidential orders grab the...
California Utility Ordered to Run Thousands of Ads over Deadly Blast Conviction
Jan 31 2017 // California’s largest utility must pay a $3 million fine and run thousands of TV commercials publicizing its pipeline safety violations as punishment for its criminal convictions in a deadly natural gas explosion in...
